Neverkin
Collaborative writing, worldbuilding and D&D-session-planning app. Tools for organizing your notes and stories.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 47% of tracked projects; popularity in the bottom 1%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 15 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v2.65.3 · 21 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 21 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Nodejs, Docker |
Is Neverkin actively maintained?
Neverkin is under active development: 233 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 78 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
The most recent tagged release, v2.65.3, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Neverkin ranks #17 of 22 tracked note-taking & editors projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What Neverkin actually does
Neverkin is a self-hosted application designed for collaborative writing, worldbuilding, and structuring tabletop roleplaying game sessions. It provides a centralised workspace to organise interconnected notes, lore, and narrative documents. The project is built using Node.js and distributed under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Best fit: It is well-suited for tabletop game masters and collaborative fiction writers who want a dedicated, locally hosted tool to manage complex fictional universes.
Worth knowing: With a small repository star count and modest maintenance activity, you may encounter edge cases, limited community documentation, or slower bug fixes compared to mainstream note-taking platforms.
Deployment notes
Since it is packaged as a Docker container running on Node.js, you will typically need to configure persistent volumes for your data and place the service behind a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
Alternatives to Neverkin
Projects in the same categories, ordered by health score.
Cross-platform hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases (fork of Trilium Notes).
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).
Knowledge base that works with a SQLite db file.
Collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales.
Realtime collaborative markdown notes on all platforms, formerly known as CodiMD and HackMD CE.
Note-taking application optimized for people with a hacker mindset.