LeafWiki vs Outline

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

Outline scores 92 against LeafWiki's 71, putting it clearly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — LeafWiki may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	LeafWiki	Outline
Health score	71/100	92/100
Commits (11 mo)	572	1943
Commits (last 3 mo)	305	688
Stars	1.2k	41k
Latest release	8 Sept 2026	9 Sept 2026
Licence	MIT	BUSL-1.1
Built with	Docker, Go	Nodejs, Docker
Typical RAM	1 GB	2 GB

LeafWiki

A fast wiki for people who think in folders, not feeds. Fast editing. Tree navigation. Markdown on disk.

71/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 27/40

Releases 25/25

Community 7/20

Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 67% of tracked projects; popularity more than 37%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

Outline

Extensible wiki for your team.

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 95%. 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.

See every option in this category: self-hosted wikis.