Doxygen Alternatives

Doxygen is described as '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' and is a popular documentation generator in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Doxygen for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best Doxygen alternative is MkDocs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Doxygen are VitePress, Sphinx, Quartz – Static Site Generator and Mintlify.

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Doxygen alternatives page was last updated Oct 7, 2021
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  1. phpDocumentor 2 icon

    phpDocumentor 2

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    PHP documentation generator based on docblock parsing.

    phpDocumentor 2, result of the merge between the old phpDocumentor and DocBlox , sometimes referred to as phpdoc or phpdocu, is the current standard auto-documentation tool for the php la.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    phpDocumentor 2 VS Doxygen

     
  2. Optic icon

    Optic

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    Optic is an open-source tool that automatically documents and tests your API. It makes it easy to keep your API specification and code in sync and automates your contract testing.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Optic screenshot 1

    Optic Features

    1.  API Management
    2.  REST API

    Optic VS Doxygen

     
  4. CppDoc icon

    CppDoc

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    CppDoc generates HTML documentation for C++ classes, based on your source code and special comments embedded within it. It can produce output that is very similar to the output of Javadoc, and it supports Javadoc tags such as @see, @return , etc.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    CppDoc screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Website gone.

    CppDoc Features

    1.  Portable

    CppDoc VS Doxygen

     

  5. Codex

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    Codex is a simple file-based Markdown documentation platform built on top of Laravel. It's completely customizable and dead simple to use to create beautiful documentation.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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    Discontinued

    The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 2.0.0 beta, released in July 2016, can be still downloaded from GitHub

    Codex Features

    1.  Support for MarkDown

    Codex VS Doxygen

     

  6. LDoc

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    LDoc is Lua documentation generator intended to be compatible with LuaDoc and thus follows the pattern set by the various Doc tools:

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Lua

    LDoc VS Doxygen

     

  7. EDoC++

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    EDoC++ is a C++ source analysis tool designed to identify problems associated with the use of exceptions in C++ code. Additionally EDoC++ can be used to generate detailed documentation

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    EDoC++ Features

    1.  C++

    EDoC++ VS Doxygen

     
  9. Shins icon

    Shins

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    Shins (Shins Is Not Slate) is a port of Slate API Docs Generator to JavaScript / Node.js , beautiful static documentation for your API.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Shins screenshot 1

    Shins VS Doxygen

     
  10. LuaDoc icon

    LuaDoc

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    Documentation Generator Tool for the Lua language.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Discontinued

    From GitHub repo: "LuaDoc is obsolete, use LDoc instead"

    LuaDoc VS Doxygen

     

  11. jsondoc

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    generate Restful api doc for Java application.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Spring
    • Maven

    jsondoc Features

    1.  REST API

    jsondoc VS Doxygen

     

  12. spring-restdocs

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    This tool generates document for Restful Api from SpringMVC test, assembling asciidoc.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online

    spring-restdocs Features

    1.  REST API

    spring-restdocs VS Doxygen

     
  13. dAPI icon

    dAPI

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    Node.js/JavaScript Dojo API viewer and static API viewer document generator.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    dAPI VS Doxygen

     
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