Lx-doc vs WorkFlow-Engine
Lx-doc and WorkFlow-Engine are both BPM and BPMN engine software. Lx-doc is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 330 GitHub stars. WorkFlow-Engine is open source under GPL-3.0, with 865 GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Lx-doc when
- You want a simple self-hosted mixed-document workspace and read Chinese.
- Pick WorkFlow-Engine when
- You are building office automation for Chinese public-sector organisations that need domestic software compliance.
Side by side
A self-hosted online document suite for individuals and small teams with mind maps, whiteboards, flowcharts, slides, spreadsheets and documents.
A Flowable-based workflow platform from Risesoft for government and enterprise approval processes, built on Spring Cloud, Kafka and Elasticsearch.
AGPL license and no pushes since August 2024.
GPL license, no releases, Chinese-only documentation and a heavy microservice stack.
Experimental
Usable
Self-hosted server (both)
JavaScript and Vue
Java, Spring Cloud, Flowable, Vue, Kafka and Elasticsearch
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
330 GitHub stars
865 GitHub stars
Established: started 2 years ago, no tagged release yet. (both)
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.