Docs vs Joplin

Both are self-hosted note-taking & editors projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Joplin scores 92 against Docs's 81, putting it ahead on the strength of a stronger recent trend. That measures project health, not feature fit — Docs may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Docs	Joplin
Health score	81/100	92/100
Commits (11 mo)	904	2018
Commits (last 3 mo)	211	554
Stars	17k	57k
Latest release	16 Sept 2026	25 Sept 2026
Licence	MIT	MIT
Built with	K8S	Nodejs
Typical RAM	1 GB	2 GB

Docs

Collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales.

81/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 31/40

Releases 25/25

Community 17/20

Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 78% of tracked projects; popularity more than 86%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

Joplin

Note taking application with markdown editor and encryption support for mobile and desktop platforms. Runs client-side and syncs through a self hosted Nextcloud instance or similar (alternative to Evernote).

92/100

Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 36/40

Releases 25/25

Community 19/20

Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 89% of tracked projects; popularity more than 97%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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