Writerside Alternatives

Writerside is described as 'The most powerful development environment – now adapted for writing documentation' and is a documentation generator in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Writerside for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Windows apps. The best Writerside alternative is BookStack, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Writerside are GitBook, Docusaurus, Archivy and Code Hike.

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  1. Orchid icon
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    Orchid is a general-purpose static site generator with a focus on extensibility, and aimed at developers looking to improve their technical documentation. Orchid was born out of a desire for better-looking Javadocs and frustration with how difficult is it to manage large Jekyll...

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. 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.

    36 ReadMe alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Docpress generates websites from your project's basic documentation; that is, at the very least, a README.md file. It also supports multiple Markdown pages in docs/.

    40 Docpress alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • npm
     
  4. Couscous icon
     1 like

    Static website generator designed for documentation. Couscous turns Markdown documentation into beautiful websites. It's GitHub Pages on steroids.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Docute icon
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    Client-side documentation sites built with Markdown.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Jigsaw is a framework for rapidly building static sites using the same modern tooling that powers your web applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  7. hexo-theme-doc is a documentation theme for Hexo, the fast and powerful blog framework powered by Node.js. It differs from other Hexo themes by allowing you to present documentation—especially REST API documentation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • npm
     
  8. 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
     
  9. 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)
     
  10. 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
     
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