Zeal
Zeal is a free and open-source offline documentation browser for developers. You download docsets for the languages, frameworks, and libraries you use, and Zeal lets you search across all of them at once and jump straight to the symbol, class, or function you need.
Features
- Offline documentation
- Works Offline
- Search by tags
- Tabbed interface
- Portable
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- No registration required
- Offline
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What is Zeal?
Zeal is a free and open-source offline documentation browser for developers. You download docsets for the languages, frameworks, and libraries you use, and Zeal lets you search across all of them at once and jump straight to the symbol, class, or function you need. Because everything is stored locally, lookups are instant and work with no internet connection, which makes Zeal useful on flights, on locked-down networks, or any time you want to stay focused without a browser full of tabs.
Zeal is a native desktop application rather than a web wrapper, so it launches quickly and stays light on resources. It requires no account and includes no built-in tracking, and it runs on both Linux and Windows. Docsets cover hundreds of technologies and can be added or updated from within the app.
Zeal information
Developed by
Oleg Shparber, Jerzy KozeraLicensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.5Alternatives
14 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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DevelopmentGitHub repository
- 12,651 Stars
- 828 Forks
- 116 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Amazing desktop application easy to use allowing to have all documentation needed in one single app, allowing to avoid having to lose time with note takers, note clipping tools or bookmarks. Free and working on both Windows and Archlinux. Available in standard ArchLinux repositories.
Running on Linux with full dark mode support in GNOME with Kvantum. Looks good with both the interface and the documentation itself supporting dark mode after you toggle it in the settings. It hasn't seen a new release in a while but the project repo is not abandoned. I don't think DevDocs quite compares and Zest seems to be dead, so this is a great option right now.
Excellent, but the dark theme is incomplete on Linux and absent on Windows. Developers say it is not possible to do it in Windows due to OS restraints ( [https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/811](https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/811)) In fact, I've seen plenty of Qt apps that have a perfectly functional Dark Mode on windows, so I think it's just there's no one interested in implementing it.
EDIT 02/12/2023
Dark mode has been added for Windows in version 0.7. Works pretty fine.
Summer 2020, seems like some doc sets or the viewer itself is broken, for example JavaScript documentation pages only show "Content rendering error" and a button "Reload Page".
This an amazing alternative to Devdocs.
Search is not as good as others (DevDocs, Zest)