Open source alternatives to Reflect Notes

By GitHub stars it is Memos, with 64,427 stars and a commit on 12 Nov. Choose Memos when you keep a daily log of short notes and want it free and private on hardware you control. Next come Logseq (45,569 stars) and Blinko (11,203 stars).

Yes. The code of all 3 is public under MIT, AGPL 3.0 or GPL 3.0, so you can use them with no licence fee. Running one yourself costs the server and your time to look after it, and some makers also sell a hosted plan.

Start from the job you use Reflect Notes for. Choose Logseq when you want backlinked daily notes saved as local files, with no subscription needed for the core app. Choose Blinko when you capture many small thoughts a day and want them in a free, open source app on your own hardware.

All 3: Memos, Logseq and Blinko. Each tool's page says what it needs to run.

All 3 we track had a commit in the last 30 days, among them Memos, Logseq and Blinko. A recent commit shows the project is kept up, not that it will stay that way.

MIT (1), AGPL 3.0 (1), GPL 3.0 (1). MIT, BSD and Apache let you change and reuse the code freely. GPL and AGPL ask you to share your changes under the same licence when you give the software to others, and AGPL also counts letting people use it over a network.

The hosting. Reflect Notes's maker runs the servers for you; with an open source tool the updates, backups, security fixes and support are yours, unless you take the maker's hosted plan. Features differ too, so check what each one imports and exports before you move your data.