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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BookStack

    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Slite

    Score5.7 out of 10
    N/ASlite is a knowledge base designed to provide teams with needed answers even without searching. From onboarding guides to all hands notes, Slite keeps all types of company information centralised.

    $10

    per month per member

    Pricing
    BookStackSlite
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $10
    per month per member
    Premium
    $15
    per month per member
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BookStackSlite
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Small Businesses
    Slite
    Score5.7 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Bloomfire
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Bloomfire
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bloomfire
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BookStackSlite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.2
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.3
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BookStackSlite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BookStack
    BookStack is fantastic for having business users and not-so-technically-savvy IT users. It enables them to create a documentation they like in a visual way while still forcing them to adhere to logical structure of a document. It works fine even for more technical matters such as integration guidelines, especially when these concern some of the more obscure technologies. The exported docs are presentable but lack any interactivity. Where it lacks is generating heavily technical documentations. Heavier REST or GraphQL integrations should for example be documented through other means. As for developer documentations, there are definitely more suitable alternatives, also.
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    Slite
    It is well suited for entire companies to use not just small teams because you can create so many workspaces and folders which allow better organization for a centralized space. For example, if you want to create for one team a folder thats a Social Media Marketing Hub you can have that with supportive resources, documents, meet the team section, and so much more. You can have another folder for other teams like HR and HR Resources where everyone has visibility into the documents and anything added under that section. It's super helpful.
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    Pros
    BookStack
    • Documentation
    • Guides
    • Knowledge-base
    • Version control
    Incentivized
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    Slite
    • Templates for meeting notes
    • Cross-functional collaboration
    • Search and retrieval of content
    • Summarizing recent activity
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    BookStack
    • Continuity in backward compatibility
    • Dark mode
    • Absent tree view
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    Slite
    • I don't love that it doesn't integrate easily with the other tools we use, at least it doesn't as far as I know.
    • Since there is not an Excel sort of capability there is no way it could ever replace Google, so it is sometimes easier to just use Word docs instead of Slite since everything is in one place.
    • I think if Slite extended their product line up, it would be more attractive to use exclusively, instead of just using it for documentation.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    BookStack
    No answers on this topic
    Slite
    Very clean interface however editing can be a challenge which is a big part of using it so I can't give a 10 until the editing and customization for editing is improved. I love how minimal the look and feel is though and how easy it is to organize different pages and folders.
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    Alternatives Considered
    BookStack
    Confluence, having only a slight advantage in terms of features compared to BookStack, really only makes sense to procure as a part of the Jira bundle. It requires much more maintenance from my experience and does not really deliver any extra value aside from the very strict certifications like HIPAA. DokuWiki and MediaWiki both provided way too much in terms of customizability, not really focusing on the business need. Of course, MediaWiki was conceived for a whole different purpose but is very often seen being used for both internal and public documentation delivery. DokuWiki did not provide the authors with the user-friendly environment that BookStack has and integrated most poorly with LDAP. As for OneNote, which was used for support docs prior to BookStack, it provided the authors with too much of a user-friendly environment, rendering the product of their work very inconsistent. Also, the sharing model was either peer-to-peer or within Teams, neither of which made it easy to audit and supervise.
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    Slite
    [In my opinion,] Slite is cheaper but less mature and feature full. Notion is a much more mature solution, so I'd recommend it for teams who want to be at the front and don't care about cost.
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    Return on Investment
    BookStack
    • Spillover within Business IT staff up, nearly double substitutability. This is through the ability of a support technician servicing a different product to find a guide describing how to solve the more frequent issues the way a product lead would do it.
    • Time to draft and publish a documentation down some 20% compared to previous solution.
    • OpenSource that integrates fine with enterprise-grade software and somehow even passes security audit. 20 times cheaper to implement compared to Confluence, almost free to maintain.
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    Slite
    • Positive ... Eng. Started using this and the rest of product adopted
    Incentivized
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