Optic Alternatives

Optic is described as 'Open-source tool that automatically documents and tests your API. It makes it easy to keep your API specification and code in sync and automates your contract testing' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Optic for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Web-based, Windows, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best Optic alternative is Doxygen, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Optic are swagger.io, Slate API Docs Generator, Redocly and Apiary.

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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.

    36 Doxygen alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
    • Doxygen is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Optic.

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

    • Doxygen is Free and Open SourceOptic is also Free and Open Source
  2. swagger.io icon
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    Swagger is an open source RESTapi Documentation Tool.

    24 swagger.io alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Node.JS
     
    • swagger.io is the most popular Web-based alternative to Optic.

    • swagger.io is Free and Open SourceOptic is also Free and Open Source
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    Create beautiful, intelligent, responsive API documentation.

    30 Slate API Docs Generator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Slate API Docs Generator is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Optic.

    • Slate API Docs Generator is Free and Open SourceOptic is also Free and Open Source
  4. Redocly icon
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    OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation.

    15 Redocly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Apiary icon
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    Apiary allows you to create documentation for RESTful APIs.

    21 Apiary alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Apiary is the most popular commercial alternative to Optic.

    • Apiary is Paid and ProprietaryOptic is Free and Open Source
  6. Aglio icon
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    aglio - An API Blueprint renderer that supports multiple themes and outputs static HTML that can be served by any web host. API Blueprint is a Markdown-based document format that lets you write API descriptions and documentation in a simple and straightforward way.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. dAPI icon
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    Node.js/JavaScript Dojo API viewer and static API viewer document generator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Bump.sh icon
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    Bump.sh helps you build a branded single source of truth, cataloging all your APIs. We’ve created the reference point for developers and product managers consuming and building APIs, no matter which technology they rely on (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and more soon).

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Bump.sh is the most popular SaaS alternative to Optic.

    • Bump.sh is Freemium and ProprietaryOptic is Free and Open Source
  9.  Like
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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:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Lua
     
  10. MireDot icon
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    At Qmino (the company that creates Miredot), we've written hundreds of REST APIs. We design and redesign until our APIs are an joy to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. APIdoc icon
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    Inline Documentation for RESTful web APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
  12. Postkit icon
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    Postkit allows developers to quickly prototype API endpoints to use in their applications and websites. It’s great if you just need some JSON endpoints for your web app or to capture inputs from an HTML form.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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