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Read The Docs

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Read the Docs hosts documentation for the open source community. It supports Sphinx docs written with reStructuredText, and can pull from your Subversion, Bazaar, Git, and Mercurial repositories. The code is open source, and available on github.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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  • International

Platforms

  • Online
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  1.  Support for MarkDown
  2.  ReStructuredText

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Top Positive Comment
a s
Nov 22, 2020
0

free documentation for open source

Top Negative Comment
DevOps
Jun 29, 2019
1

For a software which is supposedly helpful in "creating documents" it is VERY BAD in documenting how it works. Additionally, it is uber complicated -read impossible- to set up private repositories. Not a good tool

ab1
Jul 16, 2022
0

Users can't hide and reveal TOC with click or similar.

What is Read The Docs?

Read the Docs hosts documentation for the open source community. It supports Sphinx docs written with reStructuredText, and can pull from your Subversion, Bazaar, Git, and Mercurial repositories. The code is open source, and available on github.

The documentation for the site is organized into two different sections below. One is for users of readthedocs.org, that is the first section. The next section is for users of the code that powers the site. All of the RTD code is open source, so you can run your own instance. Presumably in an internal install inside your company, or something.

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  • Developed by

    Eric Holscher, Charles Leifer, and Bobby Grace
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.3
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  8,214 Stars
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  •  406 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jul 16, 2025 
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Read The Docs was added to AlternativeTo by hugosenari on Jan 27, 2012 and this page was last updated Sep 9, 2022.