Open Source Documentation Generators

Docusaurus is a project for easily building, deploying, and maintaining open source project websites.

Doxygen is a tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources, as well as other popular programming languages like C, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL (CORBA, Microsoft, and UNO/OpenOffice flavors), Fortran, VHDL, Tcl, and to some extent D.

MkDocs is static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file.

Hyperbook is a quick and easy way to build interactive workbooks, that support modern standards and run superfast. It works by compiling markdown to static pages.

Simple, powerful, and fast. Meet the modern SSG framework you've always wanted.

Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license.

With Gramax, you can quickly create a beautiful documentation site for your product or company. It’s fast, free, and works within your infrastructure.

Swagger is an open source RESTapi Documentation Tool.

Read the Docs hosts documentation for the open source community. It supports Sphinx docs written with reStructuredText, and can pull from your Subversion, Bazaar, Git, and Mercurial repositories. The code is open source, and available on github.

docsify generates your documentation website on the fly. Unlike GitBook, it does not generate static html files. Instead, it smartly loads and parses your Markdown files and displays them as website. All you need to do is create an index.

Starlight is the web framework for building modern documentation websites. Comes with navigation, search, i18n, syntax highlighting, dark mode, and more included. Supports React, Svelte, Vue, Tailwind CSS, Markdown, and MDX. All free + open source!

Presidium is a software documentation management system for agile teams, and their users, made from commonly used open source components.

Headless CMS designed for technical content with a modern WYSIWYG editor, Markdown support, Kanban dashboard, and real-time collaboration.

Instant docs with zero configuration.

Create beautiful, intelligent, responsive API documentation.

Write your documentation in Markdown and create a professional static site in minutes – searchable, customizable, in 60+ languages, for all devices.

Zero config documentation static website generator.

A static site generator for creating documentation sites from AsciiDoc content aggregated from multiple repositories. Made by the creators of Asciidoctor.

A simple, flexible and powerful ecosystem for creating beautiful documentation.

Daux.io is a documentation generator that uses a simple folder structure and Markdown files to create custom documentation on the fly. It helps you create great looking documentation in a developer friendly way.

Tired of showing your teammates what to click in yet another web-based service added to your project? Worry not, you can now generate a step-by-step documentation of the workflow as you go! Start recording, go through the workflow, and adjust descriptions if necessary.

NextBook is quick and easy way to buid technical books or documentation that support modern standards and run blazingly fast. It's built with MDX and Next.js and works by compiling markdown or MDX down to plain static html.

SkyDocs is a software that takes your MarkDown files and build a complete website with some magic tricks !

Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. Sandcastle has the following key features:

NDoc generates class library documentation from .NET assemblies and the XML documentation files generated by the C# compiler (or with an add-on tool for VB.NET).