Natural Docs Alternatives

Natural Docs is described as 'Open-source documentation generator for multiple programming languages. You document your code in a natural syntax that reads like plain English. Natural Docs then scans your code and builds high-quality HTML documentation from it' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Natural Docs for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac,.NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio apps. The best Natural Docs alternative is Doxygen, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Natural Docs are Sphinx, Slate API Docs Generator, Sandcastle and phpDocumentor 2.

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Natural Docs is an open-source documentation generator for multiple programming languages. You document your code in a natural syntax that reads like plain English. Natural Docs then scans your code and builds...

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Natural Docs alternatives page was last updated Mar 17, 2023
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  1. Doxygen icon
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    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.

    34 Doxygen alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku

    Doxygen VS Natural Docs

     
    • Doxygen is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Natural Docs.

    • Doxygen is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Natural Docs.

    • Doxygen is Free and Open SourceNatural Docs is also Free and Open Source
  2. Sphinx icon
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    Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license.

    46 Sphinx alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Python
    • Self-Hosted

    Sphinx VS Natural Docs

     
    • Sphinx is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Natural Docs.

    • Sphinx is Free and Open SourceNatural Docs is also Free and Open Source
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    Create beautiful, intelligent, responsive API documentation.

    29 Slate API Docs Generator alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

    Slate API Docs Generator VS Natural Docs

     
  4. Sandcastle icon
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    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:

    15 Sandcastle alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Windows
    • .NET Framework
    Discontinued

    Sandcastle is discontinued.

    Sandcastle Features

    1.  NET Framework

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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.

    14 phpDocumentor 2 alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux

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    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).

    14 NDoc alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Windows
    • .NET Framework

    NDoc Features

    1.  NET Framework

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  7. DoxyS icon
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    DoxyS is a code documentation tool for C++/C. DoxyS strives to yield a very professional looking output, presenting the the code in a structured easy to navigate set of HTML pages. Easy to use: Just navigate to the root of your code directory and type doxys.

    13 DoxyS alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux

    DoxyS Features

    1.  Wiki

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  8. CppDoc icon
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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.

    13 CppDoc alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Website gone.

    CppDoc Features

    1.  Portable

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    Javadoc is a tool from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation in HTML format from doc comments in source code.

    17 Javadoc alternatives

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • US flagUnited States

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

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    Doc-O-Matic is a software source code documentation and Help authoring tool. It takes source code and comments, adds conceptual topics and external input and produces documentation from it. With its single-source approach it generates many different kinds of output from a single...

    15 Doc-O-Matic alternatives

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    • US flagUnited States

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    • Windows
    • Microsoft Visual Studio

    Doc-O-Matic Features

    1.  C++

    Doc-O-Matic VS Natural Docs

     
    • Doc-O-Matic is the most popular commercial alternative to Natural Docs.

    • Doc-O-Matic is Paid and ProprietaryNatural Docs is Free and Open Source
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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

    17 EDoC++ alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    EDoC++ Features

    1.  C++

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  12. sharpDox icon
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    sharpDox is a documentation tool to create c# code documentation of any type. The tool creates a model of a given c# solution and passes it to the registered export plugins. The plugins transform the model to a defined output.

    9 sharpDox alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • Windows

    sharpDox Features

    1.  C-sharp

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