Docmost

Collaborative wiki and documentation software for teams.

Replaces

Paid team wiki and documentation services, such as Notion.

All open-source alternatives to Notion

Difficulty

Difficulty: Medium

3 services (2 database or broker: postgres, redis), 3 volume mounts, no env values to set, no elevated host access. Heuristic score 4 of 11: medium.

Stack

TypeScript (language), PostgreSQL (database), Redis (database)

Deployment

docker_compose

Requirements

Not stated.

License

AGPL-3.0 (OSI-approved open source)

Read from github.com/docmost/docmost/blob/9250ca8/LICENSE

Business model

Unknown

The README at the pinned commit does not state a business model, so it stays unknown.

Source: github.com/docmost/docmost/blob/9250ca8/README.md, read on 2026-10-22.

Repository

docmost/docmost

GitHub stats

Stars: 22,061
Forks: 1,635
Open issues and pull requests: 357
Last push: 2026-10-21
Latest release: v0.96.0
Released: 2026-09-08

From the GitHub API on 2026-10-22. These numbers are a snapshot, not live. GitHub detected the license as AGPL-3.0.

Compose file

Config check passed docker compose config exited 0 on this exact file on 2026-10-22.

docker-compose.yml Version 1

services:
  docmost:
    image: docmost/docmost:latest
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
    environment:
      APP_URL: 'http://localhost:3000'
      APP_SECRET: 'REPLACE_WITH_LONG_SECRET'
      DATABASE_URL: 'postgresql://docmost:STRONG_DB_PASSWORD@db:5432/docmost'
      REDIS_URL: 'redis://redis:6379'
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - docmost:/app/data/storage

  db:
    image: postgres:18
    environment:
      POSTGRES_DB: docmost
      POSTGRES_USER: docmost
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: STRONG_DB_PASSWORD
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - db_data:/var/lib/postgresql

  redis:
    image: redis:8
    command: ["redis-server", "--appendonly", "yes", "--maxmemory-policy", "noeviction"]
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - redis_data:/data

volumes:
  docmost:
  db_data:
  redis_data:

From the app's own repository: github.com/docmost/docmost/blob/9250ca8/docker-compose.yml.

Compose file from the app repository.

Install

Docker with the Compose plugin (github.com/docmost/docmost/blob/9250ca8/docker-compose.yml)
A host with Docker and the Docker Compose plugin. This entry runs from a compose file.
Save the compose file as docker-compose.yml (github.com/docmost/docmost/blob/9250ca8/docker-compose.yml)
Use the compose file shown above.
Start it (github.com/docmost/docmost/blob/9250ca8/docker-compose.yml)
```
docker compose up -d
```
Open the app (github.com/docmost/docmost/blob/9250ca8/docker-compose.yml)
Open http://localhost:3000. The compose file publishes host port 3000 for the docmost service.

Compose file check: config_ok on 2026-10-22.

Gotchas and maintenance

Gotchas

Some images use the latest tag or no tag. Images without a pinned version: docmost: docmost/docmost:latest. A later pull can get a different version. (github.com/docmost/docmost/blob/9250ca8/docker-compose.yml, checked 2026-10-22)
The compose file publishes host ports. Host ports: 3000 (docmost). A port without a host address listens on all host network interfaces. (github.com/docmost/docmost/blob/9250ca8/docker-compose.yml, checked 2026-10-22)

Signals

Open issues and pull requests: 357
Last push: 2026-10-21 (0 days before this page was built)
Latest release: v0.96.0 on 2026-09-08 (43 days before this page was built)