The most powerful development environment – now adapted for writing documentation.


VitePress is described as 'Simple, powerful, and fast. Meet the modern SSG framework you've always wanted' and is a documentation generator in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to VitePress for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Linux, Mac, Windows and Web-based apps. The best VitePress alternative is GitBook, which is free. Other great apps like VitePress are Docusaurus, Quartz – Static Site Generator, Archivy and MkDocs.
The most powerful development environment – now adapted for writing documentation.


A documentation generator that builds HTML output based on Markdown files. Supports Markdown specs and offers a wide set of custom components using Markdown-like syntax. Builds Reference Source documentation for .NET projects (more added soon).



docsify generates your documentation website on the fly. Unlike GitBook, it does not generate static html files. Instead, it smartly loads and parses your Markdown files and displays them as website. All you need to do is create an index.


Starlight is the web framework for building modern documentation websites. Comes with navigation, search, i18n, syntax highlighting, dark mode, and more included. Supports React, Svelte, Vue, Tailwind CSS, Markdown, and MDX. All free + open source!




Write your documentation in Markdown and create a professional static site in minutes – searchable, customizable, in 60+ languages, for all devices.


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


A static site generator for creating documentation sites from AsciiDoc content aggregated from multiple repositories. Made by the creators of Asciidoctor.

owl is a minimalistic and very fast web application that allows you to organize a simple knowledge base from Markdown files.

