mdBook Alternatives

mdBook is described as 'Gitbook alternative in Rust' and is a static site generator in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to mdBook for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Windows apps. The best mdBook alternative is BookStack, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like mdBook are Pandoc, GitBook, Docusaurus and Quartz – Static Site Generator.

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  1. 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

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Booktype icon
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    Booktype helps you turn intellectual property into beautiful, professional books.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. owl is a minimalistic and very fast web application that allows you to organize a simple knowledge base from Markdown files.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Antora icon
     3 likes

    A static site generator for creating documentation sites from AsciiDoc content aggregated from multiple repositories. Made by the creators of Asciidoctor.

    44 Antora alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Daux.io icon
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    Daux.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)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  6. Produkt.so icon
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    Produkt.so is a sleek, Notion-inspired help center platform built for tech startups and small teams. It offers a fast, block-based editor to write articles, organizes content into collections, and supports attachments up to 50 MB.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Herodotus icon
     4 likes

    Herodotus has been designed as easy to use archival software, created to serve as an offline information reference when internet access in unavailable. Herodotus is not designed to be a personal "wayback machine", instead its focus is on providing a handy offline...

    64 Herodotus alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. NextBook icon
     4 likes

    NextBook is quick and easy way to buid technical books or documentation that support modern standards and run blazingly fast. It's built with MDX and Next.js and works by compiling markdown or MDX down to plain static html.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  9. SkyDocs icon
     8 likes

    SkyDocs is a software that takes your MarkDown files and build a complete website with some magic tricks !

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java
     
  10. 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)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Node.JS
     
  11. DocFX icon
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    DocFX generates Documentation directly from source code (.NET, RESTful API, JavaScript, Java, etc...) and Markdown files.

    36 DocFX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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