Updated August 2026
    Slowing down
    2.9k

    Raneto: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Knowledgebase platform that uses static Markdown files.

    TL;DR • Raneto • as of August 2026

    Raneto is an open-source wikis project, with 2.9k GitHub stars and a health score of 25/100. It committed 75 times in the last twelve months across 3 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: MIT. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.

    2.9k
    GitHub stars
    25/100
    Health score
    75
    Commits (12 mo)
    3/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year.
    Last commit 2026-03-18
    Days since last commit 152
    Commits, last 3 months 0
    Commits, last 12 months 75
    Months with activity 3 of 12
    Last release 2026-03-11
    Archived No
    Licence MIT
    Category Wikis

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    MIT

    Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What Raneto means for your idea

    Contested · 50/100
    Wikis category →

    Raneto is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.

    Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.

    Raneto: common questions

    Is Raneto still maintained in 2026?

    Slowing down. Raneto recorded 75 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 3 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-03-18. Last release: 2026-03-11. Commits have thinned out over the last year.

    Can I use Raneto commercially?

    Raneto is published under MIT. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    How crowded is the Wikis category?

    26 open-source implementations, 12 of them actively maintained, led by Outline at 40k stars. Saturation score 50/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.

    Raneto alternatives in Wikis

    Outline

    Alternative to Notion

    40k

    Extensible wiki for your team.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    BUSL-1.1

    Dokuwiki

    Wikis

    4.7k

    Easy to use, lightweight, standards-compliant wiki engine with a simple syntax allowing reading the data outside the wiki. All data is stored in plain text files, therefore no database is required.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    GPL-2.0

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