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 Quartz – Static Site Generator, Sphinx, VitePress and Mintlify.

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  1. PHP documentation generator based on docblock parsing.

    phpDocumentor 2, result of the merge between the old phpDocumentor and DocBlox , 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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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Optic icon
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    Optic is an open-source tool that automatically documents and tests your API. It makes it easy to keep your API specification and code in sync and automates your contract testing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. 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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    Codex is a simple file-based Markdown documentation platform built on top of Laravel. It's completely customizable and dead simple to use to create beautiful documentation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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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:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Lua
     
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    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
     
  7. Shins icon
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    Shins (Shins Is Not Slate) is a port of Slate API Docs Generator to JavaScript / Node.js , beautiful static documentation for your API.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  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. This tool generates document for Restful Api from SpringMVC test, assembling asciidoc.

    Cost / License

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    • Online
     
  11. dAPI icon
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    Node.js/JavaScript Dojo API viewer and static API viewer document generator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. OkiDoki icon
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    OkiDoki is an open source documentation generator designed for developers who want powerful documentation without complexity. Built by the community for the community, it’s free forever with no vendor lock-in. Here are the top 7 features that make it essential:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
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