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Open-source alternative to Notion and Confluence – documents, databases, whiteboards and a daily journal for teams, self-hosted in one container or hosted in Germany.
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At a glance
- Everything in one page tree – documents, databases with ten views, whiteboards, notebooks for handwriting, a daily journal, projects with tickets and sprints, surveys and workflows.
- Completely open source under the AGPL-3.0 – no closed enterprise edition, no features behind a licence key.
- One container with SQLite – nothing else to run, no external search service. For larger teams optionally PostgreSQL and a cluster of several instances. Or hosted in Germany at app.flowplan.org.
- Optional AI – off by default; admins switch it on per feature and per person, completely local with Ollama or with a key for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or any OpenAI-compatible service. You decide which pages it may read.
- Private by design – no tracking, permissions down to a single record, two-factor sign-in, encryption of files and backups with your own key.
- Your data stays portable – Markdown with frontmatter, CSV and ZIP, scheduled exports to S3 or Git, import from Notion, AppFlowy, Obsidian, Jira and Trello.
The interface is available in German, English, French and Simplified Chinese – further languages can be added as JSON catalogues (help translate); the documentation is in English and German.
Quick start
Try Flowplan on your own computer with a single command:
docker run -d --name flowplan -p 3000:3000 -v flowplan:/app/data -e APP_URL=http://localhost:3000 ghcr.io/yannicschuller/flowplan:latest
Open http://localhost:3000 and choose Create account – the first account administers the instance. APP_URL must be the address exactly as you type it in the browser: to reach Flowplan from another device or under a domain, change it (for example -e APP_URL=https://flowplan.example.com) and put a reverse proxy with HTTPS in front. All data lives in the flowplan volume.
services:
flowplan:
image: ghcr.io/yannicschuller/flowplan:latest
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "127.0.0.1:3000:3000" # a reverse proxy with HTTPS sits in front
environment:
APP_URL: https://flowplan.example.com
# Recommended: the first account only via https://flowplan.example.com/register?setup=<token>
# (openssl rand -hex 24), so nobody sets the instance up before you
# FLOWPLAN_SETUP_TOKEN: ...
# Optional: mirror files to S3 and back up the database continuously (Litestream)
# S3_BUCKET: flowplan
# S3_ENDPOINT: https://s3.example.com
# S3_REGION: eu-central-1
# S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ...
# S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ...
# Encrypts files in the bucket, backups and exports: openssl rand -base64 32
# FLOWPLAN_ENCRYPTION_KEY: ...
volumes:
- flowplan-data:/app/data
volumes:
flowplan-data:
docker compose up -d, then open your domain. Single sign-on, e-mail and every other setting are environment variables too – see Configuration.
The repository also has a ready-made compose.yaml with an example configuration:
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