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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 3.0 beta adds live notes that can be published straight to pages.
Wiki.js runs two tracks: 2.x stable, which now gets only security patches, and a 3.0 beta still labeled 'not for production'. Over the past month the beta added Excalidraw live collaboration, SCIM provisioning, notifications, annotations, a glossary, math, personal access tokens and a PostgreSQL 17 minimum. beta.685 adds live notes, a personal notes space with custom keys and permissions that can be published to a page, plus much better editor scroll sync.
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
6.3COLLAB
Wiki.js 3.0 beta adds live notes that can be published straight to pages.
◆ Current state
Wiki.js runs two tracks: 2.x stable, which now gets only security patches, and a 3.0 beta still labeled 'not for production'. Over the past month the beta added Excalidraw live collaboration, SCIM provisioning, notifications, annotations, a glossary, math, personal access tokens and a PostgreSQL 17 minimum. beta.685 adds live notes, a personal notes space with custom keys and permissions that can be published to a page, plus much better editor scroll sync.
◆ Where it's heading
Headline features are in place, and betas now fill out authoring ergonomics, identity and API plumbing, and operational safety. Live notes extend the editor toward a draft-first workflow where personal notes become documentation, the same direction as draft recovery and the slash menu.
◆ Prediction
More betas pairing editor polish with API, multi-node and v2-import fixes are the likely next step. The entries still give no date for 3.0 dropping its beta label.
Alternatives to Trilium Notes and Wiki.js
Other Collab products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Trilium Notes or Wiki.js.
Teable
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Elgg
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SiYuan
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Hive
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GitHub
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Recent activity from Trilium Notes and Wiki.js
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3d agoWiki.jsWiki.js 3 beta adds live notes publishable to pages
- 7d agoWiki.jsWiki.js 3 beta adds math, access tokens; requires Postgres 17
- 10d agoWiki.jsWiki.js 3 beta adds draft recovery, slash menu, multi-replica git sync
- 12d agoWiki.js3.0 beta adds OIDC/SAML claim options and hardens v2 import
- 14d agoWiki.jsWiki.js 3.0 beta adds glossary auto-linking and non-Latin paths
- 19d agoWiki.jsWiki.js 3 beta adds inline annotations and translation completeness
- 2mo agoTrilium NotesBackups become restorable and the database becomes manageable ⚡
- 3mo agoTrilium NotesLLM providers become dynamic and self-hostable; OneNote import hardened
- 3mo agoTrilium NotesRelease-preparation tag for v0.104.0
- 5mo agoTrilium NotesSpreadsheet notes and OCR-backed search arrive ⚡
- 6mo agoTrilium NotesCoordinated security release across content handling and the desktop app
- 7mo agoTrilium NotesHotfix for mind map rendering and PDF viewer regressions
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 and Wiki.js are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 6.3 vs 6.3, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). 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 and Wiki.js are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 6.3 vs 6.3, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). 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/wikijs for the full list with editorial commentary on each.