Quartz

A static site generator that publishes your Markdown notes or digital garden as a fast website, with backlinks, graph view and full-text search.

13.5k stars, 4.1k forks TypeScript On GitHub since July 2021

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What is Quartz?

Quartz takes a folder of Markdown notes, for example an Obsidian vault, and builds a website from it. Wikilinks become links, every page shows its backlinks, and readers get a graph view, full-text search, popover previews and a table of contents. The output is static, so you can host it for free on GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages or Netlify. Pages can be translated into many languages through its localization files.

Good fit if

  • You keep notes in Obsidian or plain Markdown and want to publish part of them.
  • You want a free, static site without running a server.

Look elsewhere if

  • You want an editor for your notes, not a publisher: Foam or Logseq.
  • You need a wiki that people edit in the browser: BookStack.

Before you adopt it

Quartz is MIT-licensed. Its creator, Jacky Zhao, writes most of the code, and recent commits have been few as version 5 settles.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 30 October 2026. Report a correction

Quartz health: is it still maintained?

36 of 100, actively developed

  • Activity
    10 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 20 September 2026.
    13 / 30
  • Contributors
    2 people wrote the 10 commits of the last 90 days; the most active wrote 88% of them.
    4 / 20
  • Releases
    0 releases in the last 12 months; the latest, v4.0.8, on 21 August 2023.
    1 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Maintainers answered 17% of recent issues, with a median first reply after 2 hours.
    13 / 20
  • Security practices
    No OpenSSF Scorecard for this repository yet, so this part gets a neutral score.
    5 / 10

Read from GitHub on 1 November 2026. How the score works

Quartz license: is it open source?

Quartz uses MIT, an open-source license approved by the OSI.

  1. July 2021First published on GitHub.
  2. TodayMIT.

How to run Quartz yourself

Docker
Dockerfile or compose file in the repository
Compose file
None in the repository
Setup effort
Not rated: no compose file to judge from
Kubernetes
No Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
No app builds in GitHub releases
Interface languages
26 languages

Install instructions: quartz.jzhao.xyz or the README on GitHub.

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Questions about Quartz

Is Quartz open source?

Yes. Quartz is published under MIT, an OSI-approved open-source license.

Is Quartz still maintained?

Its health score is 36 of 100 (actively developed). It had 10 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 20 September 2026, and its latest release came out on 21 August 2023.

How do I run Quartz?

You can run it with Docker. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.

What are the alternatives to Quartz?

Close alternatives in the Notes & knowledge bases category include Joplin, MarkText, Outline.