Best Software Documentation Tools

Compare the Top Software Documentation Tools as of April 2025

What are Software Documentation Tools?

Software documentation tools are designed to help developers and technical writers create, manage, and share documentation related to software applications. These tools facilitate the writing of user guides, API references, installation instructions, and other types of technical content. They often include features like version control, templates, collaborative editing, and integration with code repositories to streamline the documentation process. Some popular tools offer support for various output formats, such as HTML, PDF, and Markdown, making it easier to distribute documentation to different audiences. By using these tools, teams can ensure that their documentation remains accurate, up-to-date, and accessible throughout the software development lifecycle. Compare and read user reviews of the best Software Documentation tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Paligo

    Paligo

    Paligo

    Paligo was built for documentation professionals who need to manage a large volume of complex content. To manage and organize this documentation efficiently, content reuse is essential. The Paligo CCMS is an excellent choice for companies who need to leverage the benefits of content reuse for better business outcomes.  Content reuse helps to streamline the content creation process as it saves time, money, and improves the quality of output. The single sourcing features eliminate duplication of content and optimize the content creation process. Additionally, the modern SaaS UI lets content creators of all levels of proficiency to easily grasp the fundamentals of structured authoring.

 Our goal is to make structured authoring more accessible to a wider audience by simplifying and demystifying the process. This is achieved through our intuitive and user-friendly CCMS, which is both powerful and robust, enabling our customers to easily author, manage, translate, and publish content.
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    Interfacing Enterprise Process Center (EPC)
    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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    Adaptive Compliance Engine (ACE)
    ACE is a quality management software solution for companies of any size, in any stage, in any highly regulated industry. ACE is fully configurable allowing your company to adapt ACE to fit into your exact quality needs. Empower all levels of your organization with intuitive user interfaces, easily search for all your documents and records, and transform your data into actionable intelligence with advanced analytics all on a single platform. Our one-stop software includes: -Office 365 Integration -Inspection Management -Document Management -Risk Management -Product Lifecycle Management -Learning Management -Audit Management -Quality Events -Paperless Validation -Electronic Signatures (21 CFR Part 11 Compliant) -Endless Workflow Configurations -And so much more! ACE comes with everything you need, all included at one price. Every application is included, no more a la carte pricing. No more nickel and diming. One software, endless solutions.
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    FlowShare

    FlowShare

    miraminds GmbH

    FlowShare® documents every step you take in any software, then delivers a branded process manual you can use to train your staff. FlowShare is a one-of-a-kind documentation tool that runs in the background, automatically documenting every action you take, creating step-by-step guides for your staff to train themselves on complex tasks and processes. It's fast, gets your documentation done in just hours, instead of days or weeks, works with any type of software on Windows and saves time and money training staff. You get easy to distribute accurate information with all of your guides looking great - no matter who creates them! FlowShare AI-Powered assistant provides 24/7 instant help, ready to guide your end-users through troubleshooting and problem-solving independently and enhances your team's ability to adapt and grow with your tech stack. FlowShare Portal provides a Central Knwoledge Hub, making the solutions and step-by-step guides readily accessible.
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    Starting Price: €39/month/user
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    Docsie

    Docsie

    Docsie

    Docsie is an award-winning digital documentation and knowledge management platform based in Ontario, Canada. You can access Docsie through a SaaS web application to create & edit documentation from any location. Then, you can publish content to a dynamic knowledge portal that users can access whenever they need information! Docsie offers powerful business-grade features to write & manage product documentation: - Docsie Pilot onboarding - Custom portal design & optional training for paid plans - Internal & external portal for employees & end-users - Workspaces - Knowledge base analytics & user feedback collection - Free custom domain - Markdown import & export - WYSIWYG Editor - iFrame embed - SwaggerAPI import - Snippet, fragment, document & topic templates - Help center & in-app help interface - Guided tour builder - Version & language management - Webhooks - AI translation & content generation - Project management - RBAC/JWT/SSO for security
    Starting Price: $39 per month (annual)
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    Document360
    Document360 is an AI-powered Knowledge base platform designed to streamline knowledge management in organizations. It helps teams create, manage, and publish content effortlessly, ensuring clarity and accessibility for users. Use Cases Knowledge Base for Customers and Teams: Offer a seamless self-service experience with AI search, auto-tagging, and analytics to boost productivity and reduce support queries. IT Documentation (Including API Docs) Simplify technical documentation with markdown support, version control, and API-friendly features like code embedding and AI-driven insights. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Maintain consistent workflows with centralized SOPs, AI content suggestions, and easy updates for team alignment. User Manuals Deliver user-friendly manuals with customization, localization, and AI tools for faster, polished content.
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    Visual Studio Code
    VSCode: 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.
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    GitHub

    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.
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    Starting Price: $7 per month
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    ProProfs Knowledge Base
    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.
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    Starting Price: $6 per user per month
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    Confluence

    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.
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    Starting Price: $10.00/month
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    Dropbox Paper
    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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    ClickHelp

    ClickHelp

    ClickHelp

    ClickHelp is an AI-powered online documentation tool used by software companies around the world to create user manuals, knowledge bases, FAQs, tutorials, etc., and publish them instantly on their portal. ClickHelp requires no installation, runs in a web browser, and is accessible from anywhere in the world. Supports Mac OS, Windows, Linux platforms. Here is how ClickHelp makes your tech writing more effective: *Easy to use WYSIWYG topic editor, as well as HTML source mode. *Single-sourcing and content reuse. * Simple customization. *In-depth analytics and reporting. *Readability scores and metrics. *Easy importing and exporting. (Import from Microsoft Word, HTML, Markdown, RTF, CHM, ODT, etc. export to CHM, HTML5 Web Help, PDF, DOCX, etc.) *Translation ecosystem to create multi-language documentation. *Machine translation support. * RTL language support. * Audit trail and IP Allowlist. Integrations: Zapier, Google Analytics, Google Search Consolу and more.
    Starting Price: $175/month
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    Nuclino

    Nuclino

    Nuclino

    Nuclino works like a collective brain, helping teams bring all their knowledge, docs, and projects together in one place. It's a modern, simple, and blazingly fast way to collaborate, without the chaos of files and folders, context switching, or silos. Nuclino is trusted by over 12,000 teams and companies across the world.
    Starting Price: $5.00/month/user
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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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    WackoWiki

    WackoWiki

    WackoWiki

    WackoWiki – Small, lightweight, handy, expandable, multilingual Wiki-engine. It's designed for speed and extensibility. WackoWiki is completely free and open source, and it is BSD licensed. Includes a WYTIWYG editor, easy installer, section edit, thumbnail creation, many localizations, RSS autodiscovery, Links can be CamelCase or freely formed links using an intuitive two-character markup. Compatible with PHP 8.0 - 8.4 and MariaDB / MySQL. On-the-fly correction of punctual typos & spec. characters. Access control through per-page access control lists. Automatic table of contents generation. Page watching & email notification on changes/comments. Powerful diff between revisions.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Bump.sh

    Bump.sh

    Bump.sh

    Bump.sh is the place for API developers to centralize all of their API documentation. Working with REST, Event-Drivent Architecture, or a mix of API technologies? Bump.sh is the only tool on the market that supports OpenAPI/Swagger, AsyncAPI, and soon more (such as GraphQL, SOAP, and gRPC). Plug Bump.sh into your CI, use our CLI, or upload your specification files manually, and benefit from a stunning UI that definitely contrasts with the legacy tools on the market. Enjoy all of the nifty UX details: we know devs will like it, as they were imagined by devs. Unique on the market: every time you publish a new version of your API documentation, Bump.sh automatically detects changes, publishes a changelog, and sends alerts to subscribe readers if the changes break anything.
    Starting Price: $149 per month
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    Docuo

    Docuo

    Spreading

    Docuo is an All-in-one tool documentation platform. 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 can Elevate your team's capabilities with one powerful documentation tool. Eliminate fragmented workflows, consolidate tasks, and supercharge efficiency. Benefits of using Docuo: —AI-Assisted Writing:Docuo Copilot automates documentation writing so developers can focus on coding, not writing. —Cross-Team Collaboration: Enable seamless collaboration so your developers and tech writers can co-create stellar documentation with ease. —Easy-to-use Editor: Intuitively embed images, videos, code and more. Customizable blocks make rearranging content effortless. —Hassle-Free Doc Management: Centralize docs for all products enabling effortless version control. —Publish Docs Sites: Docuo handles optimizations for responsiveness, mobile-friendliness and SEO
    Starting Price: $31/month/team
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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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    Swagger

    Swagger

    SmartBear

    Simplify API development for users, teams, and enterprises with the Swagger open source and professional toolset. Find out how Swagger can help you design and document your APIs at scale. The power of Swagger tools starts with the OpenAPI Specification — the industry standard for RESTful API design. Individual tools to create, update and share OpenAPI definitions with consumers. SwaggerHub is the platform solution to support OpenAPI workflows at scale. Swagger open source and pro tools have helped millions of API developers, teams, and organizations deliver great APIs. Swagger offers the most powerful and easiest to use tools to take full advantage of the OpenAPI Specification.
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