GitBook is a tool for building beautiful books using Git and Markdown. It can generate your book into multiple formats:
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary (Apache-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
United States
Zensical AlternativesStatic Site Generators and other similar apps like Zensical
Sites and apps similar to Zensical include GitBook, which has a free version. Other options are Docusaurus, Wiki.js, MkDocs and Mintlify. You can choose from more than 10 Documentation Generators like Zensical for self-hosting, Linux, Mac and Windows.
Alternatives list
- 104 GitBook alternatives
Docusaurus is a project for easily building, deploying, and maintaining open source project websites.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- United States
83 Wiki.js alternativesWrite 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 (.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Cloudron
Canada
80 MkDocs alternativesMkDocs 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- Python
United Kingdom
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Online
- npm
- United States
40 Read The Docs alternativesRead 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Global
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Rust
- United States
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).
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
52 Sphinx alternativesSphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Python
- Self-Hosted
Germany
EU
50 Antora alternativesA static site generator for creating documentation sites from AsciiDoc content aggregated from multiple repositories. Made by the creators of Asciidoctor.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- United States
61 Daux.io alternativesDaux.io is a documentation generator that uses a simple folder structure and Markdown files to create custom documentation on the fly. It helps you create great looking documentation in a developer friendly way.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- PHP
France- EU
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62 Docsify.js alternativesdocsify 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
