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title: "Notling: Notes, Docs and Knowledge Base"
description: "Write notes, docs and databases in a Notion-style workspace. Offline PWA syncs after reconnect, real-time co-editing, export to Markdown or PDF."
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type: "product"
language: "en"
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published_at: "2026-11-04T04:40:54.106Z"
updated_at: "2026-11-10T19:47:17.972Z"
---

# Notling: Notes, Docs and Knowledge Base

Write notes, docs and databases in a Notion-style workspace. Offline PWA syncs after reconnect, real-time co-editing, export to Markdown or PDF.

## Breadcrumbs

- [Productivity & Workspace](/categories/productivity-workspace)
- [Notling](/notling)

## Summary

Open-source notes, docs, and databases with offline sync

An open-source, MIT-licensed Notion alternative for notes, docs and databases, with real-time collaboration, offline sync, sharing controls and self-hosting.

## Product details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://www.notling.app/ |
| Tagline | Open-source notes, docs, and databases with offline sync |
| Primary country | Nigeria |
| Platforms | Web |
| Average rating |  |
| Published reviews | 0 |
| Verified listing | No |

## About the product

Notling is an open-source workspace for notes, project documentation and knowledge management, built by Nigerian developer Prince Gbalam as an alternative to Notion. It is released under the **MIT licence**, with the code on GitHub.

Key capabilities include:
- **Block-based editor** (BlockNote) with headings, task lists, code blocks with syntax highlighting, blockquotes, callouts, media embeds and inline tables
- **Real-time collaboration** with Yjs CRDTs, live cursors and presence indicators
- **Multiple workspaces** for personal and team use, with nested page trees, reordering, and a trash with restore
- **Database tables** with text, number, select, date and status columns, and switching between table views and form collections
- **Sharing and access control**: private, workspace-wide, public view and public edit permissions, plus email invitations
- **Search** across page titles and content, filtered by permissions
- **Media uploads** for images, audio, video and documents, with per-user storage quotas
- **Offline use** as a progressive web app, syncing changes after reconnection
- **Export** to Markdown, HTML or PDF

**Pricing**: no paid plans are published. Sign in with a Google or GitHub account to start.

**Self-hosting**: the repository includes setup instructions to run Notling yourself with Node.js or Bun and a PostgreSQL database, with optional Cloudflare R2 or S3 storage.

Available on **Web** (PWA).

Built for **students, freelancers and knowledge workers**, and for **product, engineering and operations teams** working on specs, meeting notes, roadmaps and internal docs.

## Features

- [Productivity & Workspace](/categories/productivity-workspace): Category
- [B2B2C](/tags/b2b2c): Product feature or technology
- [Offline-Capable](/tags/offline-capable): Product feature or technology
- [Open Source](/tags/open-source): Product feature or technology
- [Project Management](/tags/project-management): Product feature or technology
- [Nigeria](/countries/nigeria): Market

## Related pages

- [Alternatives](/notling/alternatives)
- [Reviews](/notling/reviews)
- [Transparency](/notling/transparency)

## Product shortlists

- [Best Project Management in Nigeria](/best/tag/project-management/nigeria)

## Access and citation

- [Canonical HTML page](https://liners.com/notling)
- [Markdown route index](/sitemap.md)
- [Agent access guide](/llms.txt)