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Trilium Notes vs Wiki.js
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Trilium Notes and Wiki.js — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
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Trilium Notes vs Wiki.js: at a glance
What is Trilium Notes?
Trilium spent a year adding what notes can hold; now it is fixing what happens to them.
Trilium Notes is a self-hosted hierarchical note application with an unusually broad content model — text, code, canvases, mind maps, and since 0.103.0 spreadsheets with formulas and OCR-extracted text from images, PDFs and Office files. Releases are large, quarterly, and explicit about breakage. The current release turns that attention inward: the database itself becomes something you can measure, clean, repair, and restore.
What is Wiki.js?
Wiki.js hits 3.0 beta while the 2.x branch enters security-only maintenance mode.
Wiki.js is in a split-track phase. The 2.x line is receiving security patches — including a privilege escalation fix and multiple auth hardening changes — but no new features. Development focus has moved to 3.x, which reached beta in September 2026 after an extended alpha period. The gap between the two tracks is widening: 2.x users are running maintained but frozen software.
Trilium Notes vs Wiki.js: editorial side-by-side
Trilium Notes
6.3COLLAB
Trilium spent a year adding what notes can hold; now it is fixing what happens to them.
◆ Current state
Trilium Notes is a self-hosted hierarchical note application with an unusually broad content model — text, code, canvases, mind maps, and since 0.103.0 spreadsheets with formulas and OCR-extracted text from images, PDFs and Office files. Releases are large, quarterly, and explicit about breakage. The current release turns that attention inward: the database itself becomes something you can measure, clean, repair, and restore.
◆ Where it's heading
Two arcs run in parallel. One expands what a note can be, peaking with the spreadsheet note type and OCR that feeds extracted text into search. The other is about trust in the thing holding your knowledge base — a coordinated security release in April, then 0.105.0 shipping backup restore, a cleanup tool that honours versioning limits, compaction, integrity repair, and a space-usage treemap. The AI layer is being made self-hostable in the same spirit, moving from a fixed vendor model list to dynamic retrieval plus Ollama, LM Studio and any OpenAI-compatible provider. Breaking changes are frequent and documented up front rather than smuggled in.
◆ Prediction
The two features the maintainer explicitly links to funding — an official mobile application and multi-user support — are the stated backlog; nearer term, expect the spreadsheet note type to leave beta and the newly networked MCP interface to gain more surface.
Wiki.js
5.0COLLAB
Wiki.js hits 3.0 beta while the 2.x branch enters security-only maintenance mode.
◆ Current state
Wiki.js is in a split-track phase. The 2.x line is receiving security patches — including a privilege escalation fix and multiple auth hardening changes — but no new features. Development focus has moved to 3.x, which reached beta in September 2026 after an extended alpha period. The gap between the two tracks is widening: 2.x users are running maintained but frozen software.
◆ Where it's heading
3.x moving from alpha to beta is the key inflection point. Once stable, it will need to offer a viable migration path from 2.x — the wiki space has deep data lock-in (page trees, attachments, permissions), so the upgrade story is as important as the feature story. The 3.x alpha/beta cadence has been steady but slow, suggesting a deliberate rewrite rather than an incremental upgrade.
◆ Prediction
A 3.0 release candidate is the next milestone. The project will likely need to ship a 2.x-to-3.x migration utility before adoption picks up, given how many organizations have years of content in the 2.x schema.
Alternatives to Trilium Notes and Wiki.js
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Recent activity from Trilium Notes and Wiki.js
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 6d agoWiki.jsWiki.js 3.0 Beta: rewrite reaches beta testing stage
- 9d agoWiki.js3.0.0-alpha.530
- 19d agoTrilium NotesBackups become restorable and the database becomes manageable ⚡
- 1mo agoTrilium NotesLLM providers become dynamic and self-hostable; OneNote import hardened
- 1mo agoTrilium NotesRelease-preparation tag for v0.104.0
- 3mo agoTrilium NotesSpreadsheet notes and OCR-backed search arrive ⚡
- 4mo agoWiki.jsv2.5.314
- 4mo agoWiki.jsv2.5.313
- 5mo agoTrilium NotesCoordinated security release across content handling and the desktop app
- 6mo agoTrilium NotesHotfix for mind map rendering and PDF viewer regressions
- 6mo agoWiki.jsv2.5.312
- 8mo agoWiki.jsv2.5.311
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Trilium Notes and Wiki.js?
Both compete on the same themes — self-hosted — within Collab. Trilium Notes is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Trilium Notes better than Wiki.js?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Trilium Notes is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Collab products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Trilium Notes?
Top Trilium Notes alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Trilium Notes alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/trilium for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Wiki.js?
Top Wiki.js alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Wiki.js alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/wiki-js for the full list with editorial commentary on each.