Doxygen Alternatives

Doxygen is described as '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' and is a popular documentation generator in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Doxygen for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best Doxygen alternative is MkDocs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Doxygen are Sphinx, Quartz – Static Site Generator, Mintlify and VitePress.

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  1. 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)
     
  2. MireDot icon
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    At Qmino (the company that creates Miredot), we've written hundreds of REST APIs. We design and redesign until our APIs are an joy to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. PHP documentation generator based on docblock parsing.

    phpDocumentor 2, result of the merge between the old phpDocumentor and , sometimes referred to as phpdoc or phpdocu, is the current standard auto-documentation tool for the php la.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Sourcey icon
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    Sourcey builds modern static documentation sites directly from the source of your project. It turns Markdown guides, OpenAPI specs, MCP server specs, Doxygen XML, Go package docs, changelogs, examples, and other project context into fast, searchable HTML that you own.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
    • npm
     
  5. CppDoc icon
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    CppDoc generates HTML documentation for C++ classes, based on your source code and special comments embedded within it. It can produce output that is very similar to the output of Javadoc, and it supports Javadoc tags such as @see, @return , etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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:

    32 LDoc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Lua
     
  7.  Like

    EDoC++ is a C++ source analysis tool designed to identify problems associated with the use of exceptions in C++ code. Additionally EDoC++ can be used to generate detailed documentation

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. 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
     
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    generate Restful api doc for Java application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Spring
    • Maven
     
  10. dAPI icon
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    Node.js/JavaScript Dojo API viewer and static API viewer document generator.

    14 dAPI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. This tool generates document for Restful Api from SpringMVC test, assembling asciidoc.

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    • Online
     
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