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Zeal

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Zeal is a simple offline API documentation browser inspired by Dash (OS X app), available for Linux and Windows.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

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Platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Flathub
4.6 / 5 Avg rating (5)
117 likes
6comments
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Features

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  1.  Offline documentation
  2.  Works Offline
  3.  Search by tags
  4.  Tabbed interface
  5.  Portable
  6.  Offline

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  • kisslike, philops, not_cool and AuthoritativeProtocol liked Zeal
    4 days ago
  • Ornataweaver and HarmonicString liked Zeal
    6 months ago
  • xenmaster updated Zeal
    7 months ago
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    Alex1991 added Zeal as alternative to Tada - API Docs Search
    8 months ago
  • extratone liked Zeal
    8 months ago
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    POX added Zeal as alternative to Manuals
    8 months ago
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Zeal information

  • Developed by

    Oleg Shparber, Jerzy Kozera
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.6
  • Alternatives

    13 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Development

GitHub repository

  •  11,956 Stars
  •  795 Forks
  •  186 Open Issues
  •   Updated Oct 6, 2024 
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Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about Zeal, and it has gotten 117 likes

Zeal was added to AlternativeTo by piotrex on Aug 29, 2013 and this page was last updated Jul 15, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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sebnico
  
Top positive commentMay 4, 2018

Amazing desktop application easy to use allowing to have all documentation needed in one single app, allowing to avoid having to lose time with note takers, note clipping tools or bookmarks. Free and working on both Windows and Archlinux. Available in standard ArchLinux repositories.

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jltty
  
Positive commentSep 17, 2022

Running on Linux with full dark mode support in GNOME with Kvantum. Looks good with both the interface and the documentation itself supporting dark mode after you toggle it in the settings. It hasn't seen a new release in a while but the project repo is not abandoned. I don't think DevDocs quite compares and Zest seems to be dead, so this is a great option right now.

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ezxpro
  
Positive comment
Pending approval • Edited Dec 2, 2023

Excellent, but the dark theme is incomplete on Linux and absent on Windows. Developers say it is not possible to do it in Windows due to OS restraints ( [https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/811](https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/811)) In fact, I've seen plenty of Qt apps that have a perfectly functional Dark Mode on windows, so I think it's just there's no one interested in implementing it.

EDIT 02/12/2023

Dark mode has been added for Windows in version 0.7. Works pretty fine.

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Zogbob
CommentJun 15, 2020

Summer 2020, seems like some doc sets or the viewer itself is broken, for example JavaScript documentation pages only show "Content rendering error" and a button "Reload Page".

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sam
  
Positive commentNov 21, 2019

This an amazing alternative to Devdocs.

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Alexandre
  
ReviewJul 21, 2018

Search is not as good as others (DevDocs, Zest)

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What is Zeal?

Zeal is a simple offline API documentation browser inspired by Dash (OS X app), available for Linux and Windows.

  • Quickly search documentation using Alt+Space (or customised) hotkey to display Zeal from any place in your workspace.
  • Search in multiple sets of documentation at once.
  • Don't be dependent on your internet connection.
  • Quick response on user request

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