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GitBook

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GitBook is a tool for building beautiful books using Git and Markdown. It can generate your book into multiple formats:

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License model

  • FreemiumProprietary

Country of Origin

  • FR flagFrance
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Online
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1. Git icon  Git Support
  2.  Support for MarkDown
  3.  Ad-free
  4.  Command line interface
  5.  Static Site Generator
  6.  AsciiDoc

 Tags

  • book-publishing
  • static-website

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GitBook information

  • Developed by

    FR flagAaron O'Mullan, Samy Pessé
  • Licensing

    Proprietary (Apache-2.0) and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $7 and $15 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.2
  • Alternatives

    78 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  25,265 Stars
  •  3,761 Forks
  •  1012 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jan 9, 2023 

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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about GitBook, and it has gotten 53 likes

GitBook was added to AlternativeTo by aabs on Jun 4, 2014 and this page was last updated Jan 9, 2023.

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Top Positive Comment
saturno
Mar 14, 2017
6

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.

Top Negative Comment
cristianbuleandra
Nov 17, 2019
2

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.

ab1
Jul 15, 2022
1

GitBook icon GitBook 10.9.126-a8a079a6410185f987dda278b997d1d1a5e404f6-2662881105 won't hide table of contents with narrow screens. GitBook icon GitBook 10.9.126-a8a079a6410185f987dda278b997d1d1a5e404f6-2662881105 can't (un)hide table of contents at the user's request.

RemovedUser
May 14, 2018
1

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.

Pascal KOTTÉ
Oct 20, 2015
0

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 :)

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.

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