owlistic
Notes & Editors
v0.2.0
Owlistic is a self-hosted notetaking and todo application built with Flutter (frontend) and Go (backend).4mo agoGPL-3.0DockerModerate
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About these Joplin alternatives
1 open-source, self-hosted alternatives to Joplin are listed here, ranked by popularity, maintenance and documentation.
- Highest rated
- owlistic (431 GitHub stars, GPL-3.0 license, written in Dart)
- Docker
- 1 of the top 1 ship an official Docker image
- Recently updated
- owlistic v0.2.0 on 2026-06-12
Joplin alternatives compared
| Project | License | Language | Stars | Docker | Setup | Latest release | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| owlistic | GPL-3.0 | Dart | 431 | Yes | Moderate | v0.2.0 | 44 |