GitBook Alternatives

GitBook is described as 'Tool for building beautiful books using Git and Markdown. It can generate your book into multiple formats:' and is a popular documentation generator in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to GitBook, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Linux, Mac and Windows apps. The best GitBook alternative is BookStack, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to GitBook are Sigil, Nuclino, Foam and DokuWiki.

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  1. Filesystem and git-based wiki engine written in Go using Mycomarkup as its primary markup language.

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  2. KiloDoc icon
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    Create, share, and print vibrant docs without the headache of formatting text — for everything from notes to massive user manuals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  3. ReadMe icon
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    ReadMe is a completely customizable and collaborative place for dynamic API and/or product documentation. Users can play around with the API right in the docs, automatically generated from a Swagger / OAS file. It also works as a knowledge base platform.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  4. Leanpub icon
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    Platform for drafting, updating, publishing, and selling ebooks or online courses with plain text, Markdown, or PDF/EPUB support. Enables GitHub/Dropbox sync, provides quizzes for learners, offers ongoing updates, and grants authors an 80% royalty rate.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  5. Docsy icon
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    Docsy is a pre-configured Hugo theme that provides the core features and behaviors needed to create a technical documentation site.

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    • Mac
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    • Homebrew
    • Docker
     
  6. Create powerful beautiful documentation, hassle-free. DeveloperHub is hosted documentation portals service for Product and API Docs. Write your user guides, knowledge base, API and product documentation.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Doclets.io icon
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    Doclets.io is the missing hosted and automated API-Doc generation service for Javascript. By simplifying API-Doc setup it enables you to actually focus on writing documentation!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  8. DocFX icon
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    DocFX generates Documentation directly from source code (.NET, RESTful API, JavaScript, Java, etc...) and Markdown files.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  9. Docz icon
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    Zero config documentation static website generator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Node.JS
    • npm
     
  10. Reedsy icon
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    Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators. Reedsy also provides a powerful and elegant editor, a beautiful production tool that takes care of the formatting and...

    10 Reedsy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. MarkBind icon
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    A tool for generating static websites from Markdown-like syntax. Optimized for content-heavy instructional websites, e.g. course websites, tutorials, project/product documentation, textbooks. MarkBind source files can be as simple as basic Markdown, but you can also use a mix of...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Node.JS
     
  12. Bookdown icon
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    The bookdown package is a free and open-source R package built on top of R Markdown to make it really easy to write books and long-form articles/reports.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
    • Self-Hosted
     
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