Docs vs Memos

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.

Memos scores 88 against Docs's 81, putting it slightly 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	Memos
Health score	81/100	88/100
Commits (11 mo)	904	890
Commits (last 3 mo)	211	205
Stars	17k	63k
Latest release	16 Sept 2026	19 Sept 2026
Licence	MIT	MIT
Built with	K8S	Docker, Go
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

Memos

Knowledge base that works with a SQLite db file.

88/100

Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 31/40

Releases 25/25

Community 20/20

Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 78% of tracked projects; popularity more than 98%. 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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