SimpleDocServer Alternatives

SimpleDocServer is described as 'A lightweight markdown-based webserver for online documentation with built-in themes. Easy to install and maintain' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to SimpleDocServer for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Mac, Windows and Linux apps. The best SimpleDocServer alternative is TiddlyWiki, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SimpleDocServer are DokuWiki, Wiki.js, Confluence and MkDocs.

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  1. TiddlyWiki icon

    TiddlyWiki

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    TiddlyWiki is a single html file with all the characteristics of a wiki - including all of the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because its a single file, its very portable - you can email it, put it on a web server or share...

    174 TiddlyWiki alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Xfce
    • RemoteStorage
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    • TiddlyWiki is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to SimpleDocServer.

    • TiddlyWiki is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SimpleDocServer.

    • TiddlyWiki is Free and Open SourceSimpleDocServer is Paid and Proprietary
    • TiddlyWiki is CustomizableSimpleDocServer is not according to our users
  2. DokuWiki icon

    DokuWiki

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    DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and...

    93 DokuWiki alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  4. Wiki.js icon

    Wiki.js

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    Write your content in the widely used and simple Markdown format, using the built-in visual editor. Unlike other wiki software that save content in a database with a difficult to extract format, Wiki.js saves all your content directly into Markdown (.

    76 Wiki.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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    Docsie

    Docsie is a multilingual documentation solution that reduces documentation time by 60% through features like collaborative editing, real-time updates, a searchable repository, interactive checklists, and AI-powered chatbots. It a...

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    Confluence

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    Trusted by 8,000 businesses, Confluence is the leading collaboration software and enterprise wiki for intranets and knowledge management. Free 30-day trial.

    138 Confluence alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Cloudron
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    • Confluence is the most popular SaaS alternative to SimpleDocServer.

    • Confluence is the most popular commercial alternative to SimpleDocServer.

    • Confluence is Paid and ProprietarySimpleDocServer is also Paid and Proprietary
  7. MkDocs icon

    MkDocs

     20 likes
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    MkDocs is static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file.

    69 MkDocs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  8. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware icon

    Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

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    Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (40+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP + Smarty, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Bootstrap.

    126 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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  10. Docsie icon

    Docsie

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    Docsie is a multilingual documentation solution that reduces documentation time by 60% through features like collaborative editing, real-time updates, a searchable repository, interactive checklists, and AI-powered chatbots. It also enables automation, version control, media upload, and supports diverse languages.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. Produkt.so icon

    Produkt.so

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    Produkt.so is a sleek, Notion-inspired help center platform built for tech startups and small teams. It offers a fast, block-based editor to write articles, organizes content into collections, and supports attachments up to 50 MB.

    100 Produkt.so alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
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  12. Read The Docs icon

    Read The Docs

     30 likes
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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.

    42 Read The Docs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Getting Started
     
  13. Banana Dance Wiki/CMS icon

    Banana Dance Wiki/CMS

     11 likes
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    Free open source software combining the best of wiki and CMS with community building-features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PHP
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  14. MindTouch icon

    MindTouch

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    Web-based collaboration, wiki software and mashup platform.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  15. ReadMe icon

    ReadMe

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    ReadMe is a completely customizable and collaborative place for dynamic API and/or product documentation. Users can play around with the API right in the docs, automatically generated from a Swagger / OAS file. It also works as a knowledge base platform.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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