Natural Docs AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Documentation Generators

The best Documentation Generator alternative to Natural Docs is Sphinx, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Natural Docs and ten of them are Documentation Generators so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Documentation Generator alternatives to Natural Docs are Slate API Docs Generator, Sandcastle, phpDocumentor 2 and NDoc.

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  1. 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.

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Self-Hosted

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    • 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

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  3. 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:

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • 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).

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • .NET Framework

    NDoc Features

    1.  NET Framework

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  6. 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • 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.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

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  8. 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    sharpDox Features

    1.  C-sharp

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  9. LuaDoc icon
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    Documentation Generator Tool for the Lua language.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Discontinued

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

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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

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Lua

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