6 alternatives to memos

usememos/memos — Memos is an open-source, self-hosted note-taking app that brings your everyday thoughts together in a personal timeline. Your data stays yours, and you choose what to keep private or share. (63,984 stars, MIT, ui, database, auth).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 637 licence-cleared components from usememos/memos itself.

The alternatives in detail

• glushchenko/fsnotes
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  score 5.5/10 · MIT permissive · 7,541 stars · 266 components · search them
• smaug6739/alexandrie
  📚 The open-source, offline-first Notion, Obsidian & Confluence alternative. Advanced Markdown, multi-tenant teams, OIDC/SSO, and local S3 backups. Deploy in one command.
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 3,875 stars · 465 components · search them
• caigee-cmd/cli2api
  Self-hosted OpenAI-compatible API for Qoder CLI login,workbuddy, with SQLite multi-account routing
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 291 stars · 402 components · search them
• fbuchner/meerkat-crm
  CRM for the personal life
  score 5.0/10 · MIT permissive · 301 stars · 190 components · search them
• unvalley/ephe
  An Ephemeral Markdown Paper. Less but handy features for plain Markdown lovers.
  score 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 592 stars · 59 components · search them
• innotelinc/magnate
  Self-hosted subscription & streaming platform for creators: Stripe billing, Authentik accounts, Jellyfin media, MRR analytics, and affiliate referrals
  score 7.3/10 · MIT permissive · 1 stars · 86 components · search them

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