GitBook
GitBook is a tool for building beautiful books using Git and Markdown. It can generate your book into multiple formats:
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Support for Themes
Features
- Support for MarkDown
Git Support- Ad-free
- Command line interface
- No Coding Required
- Two-factor Authentication
- Dark Mode
- Cloud Sync
- Static Site Generator
- Team Collaboration
- AsciiDoc
Tags
- book-publishing
- static-website
GitBook News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
mateuszwozniak added GitBook as alternative to Produkt.so- POX updated GitBook
- gabrieldja updated GitBook
- POX updated GitBook
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What is GitBook?
GitBook is a tool for building beautiful books using Git and Markdown. It can generate your book into multiple formats:
Static Website: This is the default format, it generates a complete interactive static website. PDF: A complete PDF book with exercise solutions at the end of the book. eBook: A complete eBook with exercise solutions at the end of the book.
The legacy version of GitBook is open source, but is no longer developed.
GitBook information
Developed by
Aaron O'Mullan, Samy Pessé Licensing
Proprietary (Apache-2.0) and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $65 and $299 per month + free version with limited functionality.Written in
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- English
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Comments and Reviews
The suggested alternatives does different things than GitBook.
GitBook is a tool in which you can create FAQ, Manual, KBs and manage a software documentation collaboratively. Not exactly a book to put on the shelf on download to a kindle, but a live and online documentation site.
All the alternatives listed were more related to books creation and publishing.
The old version was good, but they created a new version which misses a lot of basic functionality (can not view Markdown source, can not export to PDF). It was a great tool, but it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.
As it stated, GitBook is great for creating books, as they do not require any special formatting, text/code inclusion and cross-linking. But when it comes to creating documentation (where many people think GitBook is good at), GitBook fails. I've been using it for more than a year as a documentation tool and it is a terrible experience. Our documentation is created in Markdown and the more it grows, the more I am stuck with numerous GitBook limitations. Even creating a link to a document or a page that should be located outside the Summary is a real headache.
Along with Markdown, GitBook supports AsciiDoc that is expected to be a problem solver. However, in GitBook AsciiDoc has an extremely truncated functionality.
Free for unlimited "public book" Able to edit from multiple users Versionning managed (but no, we can't fork ;-) Format supported: PDF, EPUB, MOBI Rich Text supported, with image. Very nice :)