ProtoForce Alternatives

ProtoForce is described as '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%' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to ProtoForce for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Linux, Mac and Windows apps. The best ProtoForce alternative is Doxygen, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ProtoForce are swagger.io, Slate API Docs Generator, Redocly and Apiary.

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  1. Doxygen icon
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    Doxygen is a 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.

    36 Doxygen alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
    • Doxygen is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to ProtoForce.

    • Doxygen is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ProtoForce.

    • Doxygen is Free and Open SourceProtoForce is Free Personal and Proprietary
  2. swagger.io icon
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    Swagger is an open source RESTapi Documentation Tool.

    24 swagger.io alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Node.JS
     
    • swagger.io is the most popular Web-based alternative to ProtoForce.

    • swagger.io is Free and Open SourceProtoForce is Free Personal and Proprietary
  3. Create beautiful, intelligent, responsive API documentation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Slate API Docs Generator is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to ProtoForce.

    • Slate API Docs Generator is Free and Open SourceProtoForce is Free Personal and Proprietary
  4. Redocly icon
     5 likes

    OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Apiary icon
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    Apiary allows you to create documentation for RESTful APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Apiary is the most popular commercial alternative to ProtoForce.

    • Apiary is Paid and ProprietaryProtoForce is Free Personal and Proprietary
  6. Backendless icon
     25 likes

    Backendless is a complete visual app development platform that offers a fully integration UI Builder, real-time database, robust backend with Codeless logic, team-driven development, and bulletproof security.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Aglio icon
     1 like

    aglio - An API Blueprint renderer that supports multiple themes and outputs static HTML that can be served by any web host. API Blueprint is a Markdown-based document format that lets you write API descriptions and documentation in a simple and straightforward way.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. dAPI icon
     1 like

    Node.js/JavaScript Dojo API viewer and static API viewer document generator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Postkit icon
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    Postkit allows developers to quickly prototype API endpoints to use in their applications and websites. It’s great if you just need some JSON endpoints for your web app or to capture inputs from an HTML form.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. SwaggerGo icon
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    The simple way for share your interactive API documentation.

    SwaggerGo! is a zero configuration tool based on Swagger UI. Automatic CORS support, you don't need to change anything in your server configuration.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. 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)
     
    • Optic is the most popular SaaS alternative to ProtoForce.

    • Optic is Free and Open SourceProtoForce is Free Personal and Proprietary
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