Free WinCHM Alternatives

The best free alternative to WinCHM is HelpNDoc . It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try HelpNDoc or Kchmviewer. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to WinCHM and ten of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to WinCHM are xCHM, Chmox, iChm and KEL CHM Creator.

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  1. HelpNDoc  icon
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    HelpNDoc is an easy to use yet powerful and intuitive tool to create html help files, help web sites, printed manuals and eBooks.

    19 HelpNDoc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • HelpNDoc is the most popular Windows alternative to WinCHM.

    • HelpNDoc is the most popular free alternative to WinCHM.

    • HelpNDoc is Free Personal and ProprietaryWinCHM is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Kchmviewer icon
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    Kchmviewer is a free, open-source CHM (MS HTML help) and EPUB viewer written in C++ for Unix, Mac and Windows systems. Unlike most existing CHM viewers for Unix, it uses Trolltech Qt widget library, and could optionally be compiled for better KDE integration.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
     
    • Kchmviewer is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to WinCHM.

    • Kchmviewer is the most popular Open Source alternative to WinCHM.

    • Kchmviewer is Free and Open SourceWinCHM is Paid and Proprietary
  3. CHM Decoder icon
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    CHM Decoder may decompile your CHM file (Compiled Windows HTML Help) or e-book and extract all source files. This tool free for use and work easily and quickly. Want to convert CHM to HTML and view that in your PocketPC or in your web pages? CHM Decoder can help to you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. xCHM icon
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    xCHM is a cross-platform GPL frontend for CHMLIB (http://www.jedrea.com/chmlib/) written with the wxWidgets framework.

    15 xCHM alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Chmox icon
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    Chmox is a free (of charge), open source application for OS X which lets you read Windows Help Files (CHM files).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. iChm icon
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    iChm for Mac, iPhone/iPod Touch [for Mac:

    • Fully built with Cocoa. No ugly window and slow rendering.
    • Tab browsing
    • Search. Result sorted by relevance.
    • Text encoding detecting/switching
    • Find in the page
    • Tag powered bookmark
    • Index
    • Back/Forward
    • Text zoom
    • Export to.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    KEL CHM Creator a is flexible, powerful and freeware CHM creator that uses Microsoft HTML Help Workshop to combine your HTML files into one compressed and compact CHM (Compiled Help Modules) file. The CHM file-format is widely used for software documentation and e-book...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Microsoft HTML Help is the standard help system for the Windows platform. Authors can use HTML Help to create online help for a software application or to create content for a multimedia title or Web site.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. GnoCHM icon
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    GnoCHM is a CHM file viewer. It is designed to integrate nicely with Gnome.

    It uses PyCHM, a Python package that exports the CHMLIB API. Features are:

    • Support for external ms-its links
    • Full text search support
    • Bookmarks
    • Configurable support for HTTP lin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    CHM View kit is a simple and fast CHM viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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