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. Doctave icon
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    Doctave lets you use docs-as-code without having to manage complicated tooling or infrastructure. Write your docs in Git, and Doctave will automatically publish your documentation site when you commit your changes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Online
    • Rust
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Homebrew
     
  2. 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

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. DeepDocs icon
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    DeepDocs is a GitHub AI agent that automatically keeps your docs like API documentation, SDK guides, and tutorials in sync with your codebase, so you never have to manually update them again.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. A framework for building modern static websites. - Well designed for documentation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Node.JS
     
  5. DocsApp icon
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    Best platform power your awesome developer hub. Easiest way publish beautiful product documentation.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
     
  6. 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
     
  7. YARD icon
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    YARD is a documentation generation tool for the Ruby programming language. It enables the user to generate consistent, usable documentation that can be exported to a number of formats very easily, and also supports extending for custom Ruby constructs such as custom class level...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Ruby
     
  8. Self hosting any HTML documentation.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Homebrew
    • Docker
     
  10. 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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    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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