Sphinx Alternatives

Sphinx is described as 'Tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license' and is a documentation generator in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Sphinx for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted, Windows and Web-based apps. The best Sphinx alternative is GitBook, which is free. Other great apps like Sphinx are Wiki.js, Quartz – Static Site Generator, MkDocs and Archivy.

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  1. Docsify.js icon
     15 likes

    docsify generates your documentation website on the fly. Unlike GitBook, it does not generate static html files. Instead, it smartly loads and parses your Markdown files and displays them as website. All you need to do is create an index.

    52 Docsify.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Presidium icon
     11 likes

    Presidium is a software documentation management system for agile teams, and their users, made from commonly used open source components.

    13 Presidium alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • GitHub Pages
     
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    Comments about Presidium as an Alternative to Sphinx
    andrewsather
    Positive
    0

    Good design, logical approach to documentation organization, hosted on GitHub Pages. That’s cool.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Presidium is Free and Open SourceSphinx is also Free and Open Source
  3. Vrite icon
     1 like

    Open-source headless CMS ideal for programming blogs, offering a modern WYSIWYG editor, Markdown, code formatting, real-time collaboration, Kanban dashboard, and versatile API for content delivery.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  4. PHP Markdown icon
     4 likes

    PHP port of the Markdown text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Docz icon
     Like

    Zero config documentation static website generator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Node.JS
    • npm
     
  6. Documize icon
     19 likes

    Documize creates the Enterprise Knowledge Backbone by unifying docs, wiki, reporting and dashboards — composition + coordination + discovery + distribution + workflows = faster business outcomes

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
     
  7. Read The Docs icon
     30 likes

    Read the Docs hosts documentation for the open source community. It supports Sphinx docs written with reStructuredText, and can pull from your Subversion, Bazaar, Git, and Mercurial repositories. The code is open source, and available on github.

    42 Read The Docs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Comments about Read The Docs as an Alternative to Sphinx
    Guest
    Negative
    15

    ReadTheDocs (RTD) is a Sphinx-doc hosting site, not a docsite generator itself and therefore not an alternative. RTD is a great add-on to Sphinx use.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Read The Docs icon
    Read The Docs icon
    • This alternative is disputed. Read The Docs is a legitimate Sphinx alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • Read The Docs is Free and Open SourceSphinx is also Free and Open Source
  8. 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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. 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)

    Application type

    Platforms

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

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java
     
  11.  7 likes

    Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML, LaTeX, man-pages, open-document or XML. It includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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