Optic Alternatives

Optic has been discontinued. Similar apps include Doxygen, which is free and open source. Other options are swagger.io, CodeRifts, Slate API Docs Generator and Redocly. You can choose from more than 10 Documentation Generators like Optic for the web, Linux, Windows, Mac and self-hosting.

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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.

    39 Doxygen alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
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  2. CodeRifts icon
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    Before an API-contract change (OpenAPI, GraphQL, protobuf, AsyncAPI, MCP tool manifests) merges, deploys or publishes, CodeRifts decides whether it is authorized and signs the decision into a receipt that anyone can verify without CodeRifts — MIT verifiers in JavaScript and...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  3. Redocly icon
     4 likes

    OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Plus icon
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    Plus allows you to quickly design and document your API. Model you resources using our composable Type system, express your Operations with our comprehensive editor, and publish beautiful API documentation for the world to see.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. Apiary icon
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    Apiary allows you to create documentation for RESTful APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. Aglio icon
     1 like

    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

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  7. dAPI icon
     1 like

    Node.js/JavaScript Dojo API viewer and static API viewer document generator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  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
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  9.  Like

    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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Lua
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  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
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