GitBook AlternativesOnly Free apps categorised as Documentation Generators

The best free Documentation Generator alternative to GitBook is BookStack, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to GitBook and many of them are free Documentation Generators so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Documentation Generator alternatives to GitBook are Docusaurus, Read The Docs, MkDocs and Sphinx.

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  1. BookStack icon
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    BookStack is a free and open source knowledge management platform built on PHP. The system has been built around simplicity to ensure that adding information to it is not a chore. The content structure is built on the metaphors of Books, Chapters & Pages.

    113 BookStack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
     
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  2. Docusaurus icon
     20 likes

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

    54 Docusaurus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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  3. Read The Docs icon
     31 likes

    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.

    42 Read The Docs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Sphinx icon
     26 likes

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

    52 Sphinx alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Retype icon
     8 likes

    A documentation generator that builds HTML output based on Markdown files. Supports Markdown specs and offers a wide set of custom components using Markdown-like syntax. Builds Reference Source documentation for .NET projects (more added soon).

    55 Retype alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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  6. Docsify.js icon
     16 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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  7. docs.page icon
     3 likes

    Instant docs with zero configuration.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Mintlify icon
     3 likes

    Documentation builder.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • npm
     
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