Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    8.6k

    TiddlyWiki: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

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    TL;DR • TiddlyWiki • as of August 2026

    TiddlyWiki is an open-source wikis project, with 8.6k GitHub stars and a health score of 87/100. It committed 490 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: BSD-3-Clause. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    8.6k
    GitHub stars
    87/100
    Health score
    490
    Commits (12 mo)
    12/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-14
    Days since last commit 3
    Commits, last 3 months 76
    Commits, last 12 months 490
    Months with activity 12 of 12
    Last release 2026-07-10
    Archived No
    Licence BSD-3-Clause
    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

    BSD-3-Clause

    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 TiddlyWiki means for your idea

    Contested · 50/100
    Wikis category →

    TiddlyWiki is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.

    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.

    TiddlyWiki: common questions

    Is TiddlyWiki still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. TiddlyWiki recorded 490 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 76 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-14. Last release: 2026-07-10. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use TiddlyWiki commercially?

    TiddlyWiki is published under BSD-3-Clause. 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.

    TiddlyWiki 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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