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BookStack is an open source wiki and knowledge base for team handbooks, project documentation and personal reference notes. Organize information into books, optional chapters and pages, then group books on shelves. Its familiar structure gives shared documentation a clear home without requiring everyone to learn a markup language. It suits teams that prefer a clear hierarchy to free-form pages.

Write with the visual editor or choose Markdown, add diagrams with the built-in diagrams.net editor, and find information with full-text search and links to individual paragraphs. Roles and content permissions control who can read or edit, while page revisions let you revisit earlier changes. Export content as HTML, PDF, text, Markdown or a portable ZIP. One limit to plan for: shelf permissions don't automatically cascade to the books inside.

It is an alternative to Confluence and Notion.

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BookStack in action

Keep instructions, decisions and reference material together so you and your team can find answers, update documentation and share the right information with the right people.

BookStack handbook page with book navigation, team guidance and page actions
Organize shared team knowledge into searchable books and pages.
BookStack visual editor showing a fictional project handover checklist with headings, a bulleted list and a summary table
Write structured documentation with familiar formatting tools, lists and tables.

What you can do with BookStack

Organized knowledge

Group pages into books and optional chapters, then collect related books on shelves. A book can appear on more than one shelf.

Flexible editing

Use the visual editor or write in Markdown with a live preview. Create diagrams directly within your documentation using diagrams.net.

Search and connect

Search across your knowledge base or within a book. Link directly to a paragraph to point readers to the relevant instructions.

Content permissions

Assign roles to control what people can do, and override permissions for particular content. Give different groups access to the information they need.

What users say about BookStack

Summarized from public community discussions about BookStack, not about PikaPods.

Structure shapes the fit

Users describe the book-based structure as easy to understand for documentation and recipes, while a worldbuilding user finds the fixed depth restrictive for more complex material (documentation and recipes, worldbuilding tradeoff).

Approachable everyday editing

Users praise quick formatting and straightforward editing for their documentation. One workplace user says the familiar visual editor helped nontechnical colleagues adopt BookStack (documentation experience, workplace adoption).

Benefits of hosting BookStack with PikaPods

Predictable and affordable pricing
No subscription, hourly billing, from $2.66/month.
Well-tested auto updates
Every update is tested before it reaches your pod.
Your data stays private
We only sell hosting. No ads, no profiling.
Secure by design
Isolated containers, encrypted connections, built-in firewall.
No vendor lock-in
Access your files and database anytime.
EU and US locations
Choose the region your pod runs in.
SSL and your own domain
Free SSL, on our address or your own domain.
Your own backups
Nightly encrypted backups to your own S3 storage.

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