Shins Alternatives

Shins is described as '(Shins Is Not Slate) is a port of Slate API Docs Generator to JavaScript / Node.js , beautiful static documentation for your API' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Shins for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Shins alternative is Doxygen, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Shins are swagger.io, Slate API Docs Generator, ApiGen and dAPI.

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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 Shins.

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

    • Doxygen is Free and Open SourceShins 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 Shins.

    • swagger.io is Free and Open SourceShins 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 Shins.

    • Slate API Docs Generator is Free and Open SourceShins is also Free and Open Source
  4. ApiGen icon
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    ApiGen is the tool for creating professional API documentation from PHP source code, similar to phpDocumentor 2 .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. 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
     
  6. ApiNotes icon
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    The API documentation tool that creates interactive REST API documentation and developer portals in minutes. Auto-generate from OpenAPI & Swagger specs—no coding required.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. LuaDoc icon
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    Documentation Generator Tool for the Lua language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8.  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
     
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    Building APIs redefined. Speed up development of services, mobile, and web applications with auto-generated client, server, and documentation in many languages. Cut the costs and development time by up to 50%.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • ProtoForce is the most popular SaaS alternative to Shins.

    • ProtoForce is Free Personal and ProprietaryShins is Free and Open Source
  10. Optic icon
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    Optic is an 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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