Looking for a free, open-source Hudu alternative? Weavestream brings clients, assets, credentials, articles, domains, and IP networks into one connected documentation system, running on infrastructure you control.
Hosting is a choice in both products
Hudu offers both cloud-hosted and self-hosted deployments. If you already self-host Hudu, owning the infrastructure is familiar territory.
Weavestream adds a different licensing model: the source is open under AGPL-3.0-or-later, with no per-user license fees, license callbacks, or paid feature tiers. You can inspect, modify, and run the application yourself. You still provide and maintain the infrastructure.
Compare the fit for your team
| Area | Hudu | Weavestream |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | Cloud-hosted or self-hosted | Self-hosted with Docker |
| License | Commercial subscription | Free and open source, AGPL-3.0-or-later |
| Structured documentation | Assets, passwords, articles, and relationships | Clients, custom asset layouts, credentials, articles, and relationships |
| Knowledge base | Documentation and knowledge base tools | Rich-text and Markdown, version history, restore, and Mermaid diagrams |
| Client access | Client sharing tools | Client portal with selected records and server-enforced field visibility |
| Integrations | Established integration catalog | Action1, Breeze, Cloudflare, Google Workspace, Level RMM, Microsoft 365, NinjaOne, and UniFi |
| Mobile access | Mobile app | Installable mobile web app for field technicians |
See Hudu’s product overview for its current capabilities and our integrations page for what Weavestream connects to. Check the specific workflows your team depends on before switching.
What Weavestream brings together
- Credentials in context: encrypted vault entries with TOTP, breach checks, version history, access restrictions, and vault PDF exports.
- Infrastructure visibility: IPAM with utilization and conflict detection, plus domain, DNS, TLS, and email-authentication monitoring.
- Alerts: email notifications for renewals, website outages, documentation changes, and security events.
- Field access: find documentation, update assets, capture photos, and access credentials from the mobile app. Records require a connection and are never stored on the device.
- AI and automation: Ask anything uses your configured AI provider; API keys and MCP connect scripts and AI agents using your existing permissions.
- Security and operations: enforced MFA, role-based access, IP rules, Security Center, append-only audit history, and scheduled database backups.
Explore the product overview or read the feature documentation for details.
Plan a migration around real records
Start with one client. Review its asset types, credentials, articles, attachments, and relationships, then map them to Weavestream’s layouts and visibility controls. Test an integration where it can populate inventory you would otherwise recreate manually.
Migration needs planning and validation; Weavestream does not currently offer a general-purpose CSV migration wizard. Recreate or script the records you need through supported APIs, and check relationships and permissions before moving the rest of your clients. Keep the original system available until you have verified the result.
Get started
Follow the Docker quickstart, review the security documentation, or explore the source on GitHub.