Docmost vs Foswiki

Docmost is open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software for teams editing shared material in real time. People can work on the same page with live cursors and synchronized changes. Its Bases provide table and Kanban views with properties, filters, sorts, and formulas. The editor includes Draw.io, Excalidraw, and Mermaid tools, and listed integrations or embeds include Figma, Airtable, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Miro, Loom, and Typeform. Teams can import content from Confluence, Notion, HTML, and Markdown files. AI capabilities include chat, search, writing assistance, and MCP, using cloud models or local models such as Ollama. Docmost supports web, API, and self-hosted use; its documentation says self-hosted data remains on the customer's servers. Docker Compose with PostgreSQL and Redis is the recommended installation method. Business costs $6 a month per seat, billed annually, with a 10-seat minimum. Community is open source, while Business includes email support and Enterprise priority support.

Foswiki is a free, open-source collaboration platform for teams to share knowledge and edit pages in a browser. It can serve as a document repository, authoring space, content or project management tool, blog, or tracking system. Teams can build applications such as status boards, to-do lists, inventory systems, employee handbooks, and bug trackers. Pages can hold structured data for advanced search, and users can edit them with a WYSIWYG editor, topic markup, or HTML. Foswiki keeps revision history for pages and attachments, with flexible access controls to protect pages. It supports enterprise LDAP and can connect to web APIs such as Google Maps. Its plugin architecture offers hundreds of extensions for added features and third-party application integration. The feature list identifies Cross-Site Request Forgery protection and localized interfaces in 20 languages. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, and can also run from a USB stick or as a VMware or VirtualBox appliance. Installation is manual, assumes basic server administration knowledge, and requires Perl and required Perl modules; external extension dependencies may need manual installation.