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Software Documentation Tools

Compare the Top Software Documentation Tools of 2021

Software Documentation Tools Guide

Software documentation tools help developers in the creation of reference guides to explain how to use a software and how it works or operates. Compare the best Software Documentation tools currently available using the table below.

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    Enterprise Process Center (EPC)

    Enterprise Process Center (EPC)

    Interfacing Technologies

    Interfacing’s Digital Twin Organization software provides transparency and Governance to improve Quality, Efficiency, and ensure Regulatory Compliance. Map, analyze, and automate processes, manage regulatory compliance, assess risks within a single platform! Interfacing’s digital twin solution (Enterprise Process Center - EPC) is an enterprise management system that helps companies digitalize processes to streamline operations, increase productivity, and continuously improve. Interfacing’s digital business platform – Rapid Application Development (RAD) Tools, with its Low-Code Development methodology will optimize usage of your technical resources and maximize transparency for ongoing improvement. Discover how our Low-Code Rapid Application Development module provides all the tools to create and deploy Custom, Scalable, Secure, and Mobile ready Applications in Days vs. Months!
    Starting Price: $10/month/user
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    FlowShare

    FlowShare

    miraminds

    Create step-by-step instructions that can be understood by everyone without the usual effort. FlowShare helps professionals to create user documentation quickly and easily. While you are operating any program on your desktop, FlowShare automatically creates a step-by-step guide with short instructions in the background. Up to 9 times faster than typing text and creating screenshots. Works with all applications running on Windows 7, 8 or 10 as well as with browser applications.
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    Document360
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    Document360

    Kovai

    Document360 is a knowledge base documentation tool specially designed for all SaaS products. It is a SaaS platform that helps you to build a great self-service knowledge base for your customers and internal users (public or private knowledge bases). It comes with robust features like uncompromised authoring experience, rich theme, built-in analytics, and enterprise-grade restore, back-up and versioning functionalities. Benefits of Using Document360: - Smart instant search: Google-like search for quick help and dynamically look for the most relevant help articles. - Built-in analytics: This feature filters data and provides the report to derive actionable data and insights. - Integrations: Document360 works seamlessly with third-party applications such as Disqus, Intercom, Zendesk, Slack, Olark, Microsoft Teams, Google Analytics, and more. Our prominent customers include Microsoft, Monday.com, Harvard University, Warner Bros, Stackify and more.
    Starting Price: $49.00/month
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    Visual Studio Code
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    Visual Studio Code

    Microsoft

    Code editing. Redefined. Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere. Go beyond syntax highlighting and autocomplete with IntelliSense, which provides smart completions based on variable types, function definitions, and imported modules. Debug code right from the editor. Launch or attach to your running apps and debug with break points, call stacks, and an interactive console. Working with Git and other SCM providers has never been easier. Review diffs, stage files, and make commits right from the editor. Push and pull from any hosted SCM service. Want even more features? Install extensions to add new languages, themes, debuggers, and to connect to additional services. Extensions run in separate processes, ensuring they won't slow down your editor. Learn more about extensions. With Microsoft Azure you can deploy and host your React, Angular, Vue, Node, Python (and more!) sites, store and query relational and document based data, and scale with serverless computing, all with ease.
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    GitHub
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    GitHub

    GitHub

    GitHub is the world’s most secure, most scalable, and most loved developer platform. Join millions of developers and businesses building the software that powers the world. Build with the world’s most innovative communities, backed by our best tools, support, and services. If you manage multiple contributors , there’s a free option: GitHub Team for Open Source. We also run GitHub Sponsors, where we help fund your work. The Pack is back. We’ve partnered up to give students and teachers free access to the best developer tools—for the school year and beyond. Work for a government-recognized nonprofit, association, or 501(c)(3)? Get a discounted Organization account on us.
    Starting Price: $7 per month
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    Confluence
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    Confluence

    Atlassian

    Confluence by Atlassian is a leading content collaboration software for modern teams. It empowers teams to create, share, and collaborate on projects in one place, easily publish and access company information, capture, store and grow team's knowledge, and so much more. Confluence is also available on mobile, enabling teams to track team activity, give feedback, and stay in sync regardless of device.
    Starting Price: $10.00/month
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    ProProfs Knowledge Base
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    ProProfs Knowledge Base

    ProProfs

    ProProfs Knowledge Base is a knowledge management software used to create highly-searchable online FAQ’s to improve customer service and reduce tickets. ProProfs helps centralize access to all your files, documents and how-to articles ensuring they can be accessed across multiple devices and platforms. Organizations can easily share important information to train their sales, customer service and support teams. It is also an effective method for introducing new hires to company procedures during the onboarding process. ProProfs Knowledge Base improves productivity by making it easy for employees and customers to instantly find what they're looking for, whenever and wherever they need it. ProProfs Knowledge Base Software eliminates the need to answer the same questions over and over again.
    Starting Price: $6 per user per month
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    Dropbox Paper

    Dropbox Paper

    Dropbox

    Create and edit docs without leaving Dropbox. Paper is more than a doc-it’s a workspace that brings creation and coordination together in one place. Write and edit, brainstorm, review designs, manage tasks, or run meetings. You’ll find your Paper docs in Files, along with all your Dropbox content. Recently viewed or created docs are also listed in Home.
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    Tettra

    Tettra

    Tettra

    Tettra is an internal knowledge base with smart workflows to help you answer repetitive questions. Tettra helps you document important processes, policies, and procedures in one centralized place. This makes onboarding new teammates much faster and answering questions less repetitive. Most of our time is spent in cloud apps. As software continues to eat the world, the amount of information we create and the number of tools we use continues to rise. With all this information comes downsides. This fragmentation of tools and teams makes it tough to share context and agree on the best decisions, especially cross-functionally. On growing teams, your best employees shouldn't be bogged down by repetitive questions. To move fast, everyone needs access to the same information and principles. Your internal knowledge base will only be successful if everyone contributes to it. Tettra makes it easy for anyone to contribute knowledge by referencing content in other systems.
    Starting Price: $99 per month
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    Nuclino

    Nuclino

    Nuclino

    Founded in 2016, Nuclino is a software organization based in Germany that offers a piece of software called Nuclino. Nuclino offers online support. Nuclino features training via documentation. The Nuclino software suite is SaaS, Windows, and Mac software. Nuclino is software documentation software, and includes features such as brainstorming, content management, document management, project management, real time editing, and version control. Software pricing starts at $5.00/month/user. Nuclino offers a free version and free trial. Some competitor software products to Nuclino include Confluence, Document360, and Tettra.
    Starting Price: $5.00/month/user
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    Archbee

    Archbee

    AiurLabs

    Documentation tool for high-performing teams. Archbee is the place to centralize your company's information. Unify knowledge in product, engineering, support, marketing, sales. Usecases: • Manage team knowledge • Developer & API docs • Documentation sites • Document internal processes • Collaborate on documents • Onboard & train teammates • Create documentation for your customers • Bring your own domain Integrations: Slack, Airtable, Loom, Trello, Lucidchart, Typeform, Mindmeister, Prezi, Miro, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Figma, Invision, Framer, Abstract, Marvel, Github, GraphQL, Swagger/Open API, Numeracy, Mode Analytics, Codepen, Intercom, Google Analytics.
    Starting Price: $30 per month
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    MadCap Flare

    MadCap Flare

    MadCap Software

    Whether you need to create technical documentation for online Help, software and API documentation, policy & procedure manuals, knowledge bases or user guides, MadCap Flare allows you to create, manage and publish content to a variety of formats, including print, online, desktop and mobile.
    Starting Price: $1799 Perpetual License
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    Xano

    Xano

    Xano

    Xano provides a fully-managed scaleable infrastructure to power your backend. On top of that security, you can quickly build the business logic that powers your backend without a single line of code or use one of our pre-made templates to launch quickly without sacrificing scale or security. Build custom API endpoints without a single line of code. Accelerate time to market using our out-of-the-box CRUD operations and Marketplace extensions and templates! Your API comes “ready-to-use� so you can immediately connect to any frontend and focus on your business logic. Everything is also automatically documented in Swagger so connecting to a frontend is a breeze. Xano uses PostgreSQL which provides the flexibility of a relational database along with the Big data needs of a NoSQL solution. Add features to your backend in a few clicks or start with ready-made templates and extensions to jumpstart your project.
    Starting Price: $29 per month
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    Hudu

    Hudu

    Hudu

    Hudu organizes, stores, and encrypts client passwords alongside the rest of your documentation. Hudu allows you to connect assets and articles with powerful relationships, and a state-of-the-art relationship mapper. Set up processes and process templates to easily manage and track progress of checklist workflows. IT can be complex, so we have designed Hudu from the ground up to be fully customizable. Files and passwords are stored with AES 256-bit encryption on servers that you control. Users can enable multi-factor authentication for more protection and administrators have the option to enforce it. Protect your data with the ability to limit hours employees can log in and view data, as well as the types of data they can view and edit. Share passwords through a branded portal to your clients, easily, and securely.
    Starting Price: $31 per 3 users per month
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    Bit.ai

    Bit.ai

    Bit Tech Labs

    The World's Most Powerful Workplace and Document Collaboration Platform. Built for teams and individuals to create, collaborate, and organize all your work in one place from anywhere in the world. Create fast dynamic notes, documents, wikis, knowledge bases, projects, client deliverables, training guides and client portals, while integrating across the apps you work with. Organize all your work in one place. Use Bit for smart notes, research, freelance work, client deliverables, classwork & more in one beautiful place. Work with your team, clients, partners or students, regardless of where they are located and collaborate on projects together in real-time. Utilize guest access to bring clients, partners and contractors into your world. Bit scales across your entire organization, regardless of whether everyone is in one location or distributed across the globe. Keep all your company knowledge across departments, teams, projects, and clients organized in one central hub.
    Starting Price: $8 per user per month
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    Read the Docs

    Read the Docs

    Read the Docs

    Spend your time on writing high quality documentation, not on the tools to make your documentation work. Read the Docs simplifies software documentation by automating building, versioning, and hosting of your docs for you. We will host your documentation for free, forever. There are no tricks. We help over 100,000 open source projects share their docs, including a custom domain and theme. Whenever you push code to your favorite version control service, whether that is GitHub, BitBucket, or GitLab, we will automatically build your docs so your code and documentation are never out of sync. We build and host your docs for the web, but they are also viewable as PDFs, as single page HTML, and for eReaders. No additional configuration is required. We can host and build multiple versions of your docs so having a 1.0 version of your docs and a 2.0 version of your docs is as easy as having a separate branch or tag in your version control system.
    Starting Price: $5 per month
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    Help Generator

    Help Generator

    Help Generator

    The Help Generator provides help authoring tools to create chm help files, browser based help and printed user documentation. The modern, Office style, help editing environment has many features to make you highly productive and guarantee quality output. Edit using WYSIWYG (HTML) Help Editor with the modern Windows fluent ribbon. Use the Help Generator help authoring software to create the standard windows help files, also called chm files or compiled html help file, and browser based help for any windows application. The Help Generator add-in makes for each form in your application a descriptive topic page which include a title, screenshot with image map and sections for all controls. The pages generated by the add-in are been automatically integrated with your application so that you have instant F1 support for context sensitive help. Add-in versions are available for Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic 6 and Microsoft Access.
    Starting Price: $37 one-time payment
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    Corilla

    Corilla

    Corilla

    A blazing fast markdown editor in the cloud. Built by technical writers to improve the UX of our daily content workflow and remove the complexity of actually writing. Same-page authoring and team draft links. Designed from the ground up to improve the collaboration between writers, developers and the entire organization. Maintain your content in a dedicated repository with powerful search and tagging plus the security of full version control. Freedom from duplicate files or ambiguous version names. Modular content publishing allows you to choose your flavour of topic-based authoring and single sourcing to maximize content re-use. No more dead-end wikis. Your internal documentation has never been more discoverable or dynamic. Company-wide private documentation or role-specific guides for new hires or reporting in just a few clicks. Unlimited documentation hosting with the option of custom domain, integrated publishing to external services or self-hosting.
    Starting Price: $45 per month
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    Doc-O-Matic

    Doc-O-Matic

    Doc-O-Matic

    Use Doc-O-Matic to effortlessly and reliably create source code and API documentation and author general purpose documentation in a multitude of formats and styles in the shortest possible time. Doc-O-Matic takes source code and comments, adds conceptual topics and external input and produces documentation from it. With its single-source approach, Doc-O-Matic generates many different kinds of output from a single documentation base. Doc-O-Matic produces HTML-based Help files including HTML Help, Help 2, Help Viewer 2.x and browser based Web Help. Doc-O-Matic also creates printable documentation in PDF and RTF formats as well as XML output ideally suited for post-processing. Documentation created with Doc-O-Matic is feature rich out of the box. It provides collapsible and tabbed sections, automatically cross-links the entire documentation, including source code. Your Help bridges the gap, truly integrating into pre-existing library documentation.
    Starting Price: $49 per user
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    snazzyDocs

    snazzyDocs

    snazzyDocs

    Create documentation with technical-free writing, and effortless hosting. Write the way you’re used to! Format and style your text just like a word processor. No complicated syntax if you don’t want it. Publish instantly with a single click. Structure chapters, sections and pages effortlessly. Concentrate on your product. With no coding experience required, delegate writing to absolutely anyone! Documentation software with super easy hosting. Use your own custom domain, or create one with us. Choose a theme, add your logo, and customize to match your brand or website. Get help from others on your team. Restrict access, assign roles and user privileges. Easily make documentations private and password protected for internal or personal use. Publish fearlessly knowing previous work is safe and backed up. Download or restore anytime. The documentation software that makes docs easier.
    Starting Price: $9.99 per month
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    WebWorks ePublisher

    WebWorks ePublisher

    WebWorks

    WebWorks helps you increase your product value by reducing the time it takes to publish, increasing time spent on building value in the documentation sent to your customer. One-Click Publishing is the optimal documentation publishing workflow because of its speed and accuracy. Create, generate, deliver, those are all the stages of One-Click Publishing. A simple workflow that is agile, flexible and intelligent so you can focus less on publishing and more on creating your message. ePublisher delivers One-Click publishing through a customizable template we call ePublisher Stationery. ePublisher Stationery holds a set of instructions defining the publishing process. Once designed and saved, a stationery can be shared among others in the department to decrease the work load. With ePublisher Designer, you can customize your stationery to your specific publishing needs making it the fastest most scalable workflow to deliver product ready document sets.
    Starting Price: $25 per month
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    HelpNDoc

    HelpNDoc

    HelpNDoc

    HelpNDoc provides all the tools necessary to write complete help files and documentations. From the table of contents to the final documentation layout, everything is included in HelpNDoc. HelpNDoc’s user interface has been carefully designed to be clear and effective, the various tools are grouped using the popular ribbon design first introduced by Microsoft Office, contextual elements such as picture or table editing operations will only appear when needed thus greatly simplifying the overall experience. All the necessary tools needed to create great documentations are built right in HelpNDoc, the table of contents editor, WYSIWYG topic editor, keywords editor and library are some of the features provided to ease-up the process of writing amazing documentations and are an integral part of the HelpNDoc environment. HelpNDoc includes a feature-packed word processor which makes you feel instantly at home.
    Starting Price: €149.50 one-time payment
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    Document! X

    Document! X

    Innovasys

    Document! X is a combination of an automated documentation tool and a full authoring environment which can be used to create, publish and maintain accurate, professional quality documentation for .NET, Web Services, Databases, XSD Schemas, COM Components and Type Libraries, Java and Javascript. Document! X is not just an automated documentation build tool - it includes a fully featured documentation authoring environment allowing you to supplement the automatically generated content where required. Document! X supports a wide variety of solution elements. One consistent, customizable and comprehensive toolset for all of your technical documentation requirements. With Document! X, documentation can be automatically produced throughout design and development without requiring investment of developer resources, providing development teams with an accurate and up to date reference and allowing new developers to jump the learning curve of new components and schemas.
    Starting Price: $413 per year
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    MadCap Central

    MadCap Central

    MadCap Software

    Secure cloud-based authoring, collaboration, workflow and project management for technical writers and documentation teams. Content and project management just got easier. MadCap Central is the only cloud-based solution that allows your team to easily track and manage tasks, organize workflows, schedule and automate processes, host and publish content, and extend your authoring capabilities with integrated subject matter expert (SME) contribution and review. MadCap Central provides a secure cloud-based content and project management environment integrated with powerful on-premises authoring and publishing. MadCap Central’s user interface makes it easy to organize your content, projects, teams and users. A customizable dashboard makes working personalized and efficient. With extensive project and content management capabilities, you can upload projects, import projects from other users, assign users to specific projects, set project statuses, receive notifications for activities, etc.
    Starting Price: $109 per month
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    HelpSmith

    HelpSmith

    HelpSmith

    Complete help authoring tool to create CHM HTML Help files, Web Help systems, printed manuals, Adobe PDF documets, Microsoft Word documents, and ePub eBooks from a single source. If you are looking for a help authoring tool to create a CHM help file, online Web Help system, or PDF manual, you can consider HelpSmith which provides a rich feature-set from the powerful word processor to write help topics, to the built-in screenshot tool with the possibility to create help for dialog windows automatically. Using HelpSmith, you can create a CHM help file, a fully responsive Web Help system compatible with desktop computers and mobile devices, Printed Manual, PDF document, ePub eBook, and Microsoft Word document from a single source help project. You can write topic content using a built-in word processor that includes a spell checker with dictionaries available for many languages.
    Starting Price: $199 one-time payment
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