Best Government Software Documentation Tools - Page 2
View:
Compare the Top Government Software Documentation Tools as of April 2025 - Page 2
Sort By:
-
1
Doctave
Doctave
Share knowledge, onboard developers faster, and standardize your docs with a developer-friendly documentation platform. Developer documentation should live and change with your code. Not in a separate knowledge base outside the developer workflow. Reap the rewards of a well documented codebase. It's already written down. Getting new developers up to speed easier than ever. No more virtual taps on the shoulder to ask how things work. With all projects documented in Doctave, developers move around your codebase effortlessly. Institutional knowledge gets written down and out of developers heads, making sure you don't lose valuable information. All your projects can be documented in Doctave using tools that integrate with the rest of your development workflow. Doctave is lightweight and easily integrates with your existing CI/CD pipeline to make sure your docs stay up to date.Starting Price: $59 per month -
2
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 -
3
Xpublisher
Xpublisher
Xpublisher is the key to collaborative creation, full management and easy publishing of content in all channels, enabling the highly automated production of journals, books and technical documentation. Create, edit & review structured content quickly and easily with our online XML editor. Access all your XML documents anytime, anywhere and collaborate with other authors in real-time, regardless of their technical proficiency (Note: XML is not mandatory, you can also work with common MS Word documents.) Manage & structure your content & any additional digital assets (e.g. images, video, audio) efficiently with our digital asset management system & publishing system Xpublisher, for a highly automated, fast & accurate multichannel-publishing. Numerous leading companies are already convinced by Xpublisher. We deliver turnkey solutions to help you master these challenges, so you can create content efficiently and publish it automatically -
4
Swimm
Swimm
Never let onboarding, knowledge silos, or context switching slow you down. Use Swimm to create and edit docs that are coupled with your code, auto-synced, and integrated into your workflow. Swimm's language agnostic editor, paired with its Smart Tokens and Snippet Studio is the foundation for modern documentation. Build great media-rich docs coupled with the code. Swimm's Auto-sync algorithm, helps your documentation stay in sync through refactoring and reorganization. You don't have to worry about changing file names, function names, or your implementation. Swimm will be able to keep up with it. Swimm checks your docs as your code evolves, and notifies you if your changes affect your documentation. Access docs right next to the code they refer to. Stay in your IDE and your flow. When you click on a link, your IDE will open a new tab with the documentation perfectly rendered from Markdown.Starting Price: $29 per month -
5
Tango
Tango
Catch up on your documentation, cut down on meetings and interruptions, and save hours every week. We’ll automatically create a step-by-step guide with perfectly cropped screenshots, links, and annotations. Blur out sensitive information, add annotations, draw freehand, or customize your logo and colors. Publish your guide to multiple knowledge bases with one click, share a direct link, or export to PDF, HTML, or Markdown. You click through your process. Tango does the documenting. Create 10 how-to guides in the time it used to take to do one. Say goodbye to long videos and walls of text. Tango turns any process into a beautiful, shareable how-to guide. Document steps on any website or software. Tango with all your favorite tools. Highlight what's important with an arrow, rectangle, circle, or text. Or draw anything you can imagine with the freehand pen. Resize images to focus on what matters and cut what doesn’t.Starting Price: $16 per month -
6
Guidde
Guidde
Create visual documentation your customers and team will love 10x faster. Click capture from our browser extension and go through your workflow, click stop when you’re done. We’ll take it from here. Make it on brand and on-point each time. Record or add text-to-speech voiceover, edit steps in your process, blur sensitive information, and add text, annotations, and custom branding, all with the simplicity of editing a presentation. Share your guidde with one click on any channel. Share internally or externally, and control who you want to have access to. Generate an instant visual article complete with video, images, and text, and embed it in your existing tools like Notion, Zendesk, Salesforce, and many others. Give your customers the personal touch with step-by-step guides they can easily watch and follow without reading through mountains of documentation. Enable anyone in your team to create video-rich guides to explain your product in seconds.Starting Price: $16 per month -
7
Dewstack
Dewstack
Effortlessly craft, manage, and host intelligent docs that respond to user queries in real-time and enhance user engagement and promote self-service. Build amazing user manuals quickly and let your users find answers instantly with our intelligent Q&A feature. Create FAQs quickly, and let our intelligent chatbot provide instant answers to common questions. Use the private workspace to jot down your daily notes, To-Dos, and more. Make it interactive and comprehensive with the Q&A feature. Craft beautiful product docs for your users and stakeholders. Enhance comprehension with our smart, instant answers widget.Starting Price: $29 per month -
8
Balsa
Balsa
Balsa is for organizing ideas, tracking projects, and collaborating with your team. Give it a try and see how it can simplify your workflow! We are huge fans of products like Dropbox Paper and Notion. These products are great for lots of different use cases, but we aim to make a document that is great for making software—with the ability to write specs and put a plan into action in one place. Simplified text formatting that make docs easy to write and a joy to read. Structured modules like milestones that can power views like timelines and rosters. All-in-one workflow from doc to execution without the overhead of out-of-date documentation or switching tools. Balsa visualizes your projects for you - from a bird's eye view, you can see how they might affect each other and the progress of your team overall.Starting Price: $29 per user per month -
9
Redocly
Redocly
Beautiful API documentation loved by teams and API consumers. At last, API documentation your whole team will be proud of. Publish beautiful API reference docs in seconds and style them in minutes. Tick every developer's favorite box right out of the box, three panels, a try-it console, generated code samples, SEO-friendly, even friendlier search. Nobody likes outdated docs and scope creep. Maintain API documentation with your favorite source control integrated with our cloud app workflows. We support them all, including on-premise and API management providers. Launch a developer portal in minutes reusing your API definitions as assets. Add tutorials, quick-start guides, and developer tooling with incredible customization. Validate, lint, and bundle multi-file API definitions. Write always on-spec OpenAPI documents. Plug in your API reference and customize every nook & cranny to wow your API consumers.Starting Price: $69 per month -
10
Supacodes
Supacodes
Supacodes can automatically create & update your code documentation in real-time right into Github. Whenever you push new commits, your updates are processed, and existing docs are updated automatically. Supacodes support Typescript, Javascript, Python, Java, PHP, Dart, C and C++. Frustration with a huge undocumented codebase, never again. No matter how many team members there are, it works. You can edit the documentation generated by the AI. However, the best strategy is to put comments within your code wherever necessary. The AI will analyze your comments as well. You are not charged for lines of codes. It's nothing but a convenient way to compare the usage limits. The actual limitation is upon the token count. You can contact support any time with any problem you have.Starting Price: $17 per month -
11
Fluency
Fluency
Fluency is the process excellence platform that makes automation accessible to everyone in a business, starting with documentation. Simply hit record and perform the process, Fluency will automatically generate step-by-step documentation. Centralize and secure your processes with Fluency, powered by AWS. Fluency is the first platform that empowers you to extract value from your documented processes. Fluency's feature suite drives your business towards process excellence, starting with documentation. Every business has processes, from compliance-heavy financial services firms to local healthcare providers. Processes often contain important and sensitive information. At Fluency, security is at the forefront of everything we do. Fluency requires no integrations, making it easy to get started. If you have any specific IT requirements, security policies, or team setups, reach out, and we are happy to help get you set up.Starting Price: $26.94 per month -
12
Scroll Versions
K15t
Scroll Versions enables you to write, manage, and publish documentation in Confluence. Plan, author, and release great documentation, even for feature-rich, fast-changing products. With Scroll Versions you can manage and author multiple versions of your documentation in a single space. Add or update docs pages, and publish the latest version instantly when the product is released. Make your Confluence content available with a few clicks. Just select your version, variant, and language to be published to a new or existing space. You can even publish to another Confluence system. With Scroll Versions you can use duplicate page titles within a single space. You can also rename a page without breaking links, as the link is detached from the page title. Scroll Versions enables you to manage different product variants in a single space. Space Admins can define product variants on space-level and Authors can later define which content applies to which product variant. -
13
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 -
14
Help+Manual
Help+Manual
Help+Manual is a full featured documentation tool that is as easy to use as a word processor, yet much more powerful, it gives you the power of a true WYSIWYG XML editor and puts all the tools that you need at your fingertips. This is combined with powerful features for generating and editing help and documentation files, including full support for multimedia and complex modular projects. Whether you publish documentation for desktop or mobile, iOS or Android, Windows help or PDF user manuals, it is always a breeze with Help+Manual! But single source is much more than just outputting the same information to different formats. Mark content with conditional tags to create different outputs for each publishing channel, no post-processing is required. Help+Manual handles the complexities of documentation generation for you. Power users, however, can get under the hood and manipulate topic and layout templates and more. Help+Manual gives you the best of both worlds.Starting Price: €498 one-time payment -
15
HelpXplain
Help+Manual
In Technical Documentation, we often need to explain multi-steps procedures. We use bullet lists, we add screenshots and text. The more we add, the more likely it is that our readers will lose track. An Xplain, as we call it, is a series of slides freely arranged on a huge canvas to spark your creativity. HelpXplain is perfect for slideshows embedded into web pages and technical documentation. Create animated step-by-step tutorials and quick instructions in minutes instead of hours. The magic is in the method, HelpXplain animates a series of simple screenshots, each of which can be edited or replaced at any time. HelpXplain can also record multi-page screencasts of programs on your computer screen that run in autoplay mode like a video. Recording and editing them is massively easier and less stressful than trying to create a video! All Xplains are 100% standards-compliant HTML5 and Javascript.Starting Price: €199 one-time payment -
16
Xeditor
Xpublisher
Xeditor is a professional online XML editor for XML authoring based on state-of-the-art web standards. By enabling authors to work together on structured content from any location at any time, Xeditor helps companies put efficient workflows in place. What’s more, the web-based architecture means there’s no need for time-consuming local installations. Xeditor, the professional online XML authoring tool, gives users the tools they need to create and edit structured documents intuitively in XML format. With the help of XML, content can be created in a way that is media-independent, semantically marked up, automatically processed, and published with a high degree of efficiency. XML is the data format of the future. Xeditor offers its users both an intuitive visual and a technical writing experience. Authors of subject-specific content benefit from the intuitive user interface of the visual XML editor, including WYSIWYG functionality. -
17
Alphadoc
Alphadoc
Your open API spec is at the core of Alphadoc, create tutorials and intuitive sequence diagrams on top of it. Always in sync with your OAS spec through versioning. We will help you document your SDKs, long code snippets, and entire demo applications. Easily create code walkthroughs, combining API references, variables and more. Interactive docs let developers try out API calls with real data, and from your documentation and guides. With auto-updating endpoints on your pages, you can effortlessly describe API calls without the need for manual copying and pasting. We provide you with the building blocks to create intuitive documentation. You can also embed endpoints, diagrams and code walkthroughs in websites, blogs, or wherever you want.Starting Price: €150 per month -
18
Penify
Penify
Penify automates the software documentation process for Git repositories. Every time a code modification is merged into "main", Penify uses a Large Language Model to generate documentation for the updated code. This automation covers multiple documentation layers, including InCode Documentation, API Documentation, Architectural Documentation, and PR documentation, each designed to improve different aspects of the development process. By taking over the entire documentation process, Penify tackles the common problem of documentation becoming outdated as the code evolves.Starting Price: ₹835 per month per repository -
19
Fern
Fern
Stripe-level SDKs and Docs for your API. Offer type-safe SDKs in the most popular languages. Let Fern do the heavy lifting of generating and publishing client libraries so your team can focus on building the API. Import your API definition, whether it's in OpenAPI or Fern's simpler format. Select which code generators you'd like to use: TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, C#, Swift. Fern semantically versions and publishes packages to each registry (e.g. npm, pypi, maven). Beautiful API documentation that reflects your brand.Starting Price: $250 per month -
20
Boggl.ai
Boggl.ai
Enter your seed data & generate a boilerplate for your PRD. Unique links you can assign to your team on Jira. Boggl generates test cases from your user stories. Our prompts are 10-15 lines of specifications to ensure a laser-sharp output with minimal/no hallucinations. Generate a document & keep improving on it with our intuitive iterative AI. Boggl.ai uses industry-standard templates for predictable & standardized outputs. You don't have to redo documentation anymore. Leverage what you have to create other resources. Your data is stored in a secure cloud, not our servers. Continuous checking for vulnerabilities within the system. AI leverages your roadmap to generate a boiler plate for requirements. Add or remove document sections to match your vision. Intuitive & guided experience for document generation & editing. Share documents across organizations through flexi-export. Easy collaboration between team members on docs.Starting Price: $19 per month -
21
Mimrr
Mimrr
Automate your code documentation & get fixes to code bugs, performance & security issues. Simply connect your repo to Mimrr and leave the magic of generating contextual documentation to us. Proactively analyzes every change to effortlessly find and suggest fixes to your code quality issues. Experience efficiency with our shared resources. We manage the hosting, you reap the benefits. Integrate our model directly into your infrastructure. Host your docs publicly so that end users can use your APIs or host privately for your own team. Seamlessly organize and view multiple projects within the same dashboard. Our semantic code chat helps you get better results from your codebase, making it easier to onboard, and understand complex code. Spot on code interaction with natural language prompts. New hires can be added easily from within the Mimrr web app, from user management under your organization's dashboard.Starting Price: $15 per month -
22
Cloudy
Cloudy
Cloudy is an AI-driven platform that enables fast-moving teams to create clear, functional, and up-to-date technical documentation. Integrating with GitHub repositories, allows users to establish unique workspaces per codebase, ensuring documentation remains synchronized with code changes. The platform facilitates seamless collaboration through features like pull request syncing, automatic suggestions of changes, and recent threads that maintain context. Custom permissions ensure team members access only relevant information, while linked files and documents consolidate pertinent code and data. Cloudy enhances navigation with optimized keyboard shortcuts and supports efficient onboarding by simplifying codebase comprehension. Its design aims to reduce knowledge gaps across teams, making it easier for coworkers, customers, and stakeholders to access necessary information. The platform offers various pricing tiers, including a free option for non-commercial use and a pro version.Starting Price: $20 per month -
23
High Season AI
High Season
High Season AI helps you created AI powered product documentation that helps you reduce support costs and increase customer satisfaction. Our platform uses Large Language Model (LLM) AI to turn your existing product documentation into an AI powered answers engine. We also use AI to perform "knowledge mining" on rich information sources such as support tickets and git pull requests to improve your product documentation which increases your documented knowledge and allows the AI to answer more user queries.Starting Price: $30/month -
24
tomehost
Cactusoft
Most CMSs base their structure around pages. tomehost is structured around sections, which is much better suited to user guides and complex technical documentation. You can nest headings 7+ levels deep, accommodating even the most extensive technical manuals. Just add headings where you want them, and tomehost takes care of numbering. If you move a section, everything automatically renumbers. Each heading has a unique URL that does not change if you edit the heading, move it, or add sections in front of it. The visible number might change, but the URL won't. The editor interface has menu triggers next to each header, at section breaks at the end of each section and on-right clicking headings in the treeview menu. Headings, text, warnings, notices, code (with syntax-highlighting), images (with optional legend), file download blocks and embedded videos.Starting Price: $29 per month -
25
WalkMe
WalkMe
Empower users to keep pace with technology by enabling true digital adoption. WalkMe’s Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) makes it effortless to use any software, website, or app. Combined with proactive, step-by-step guidance, our comprehensive solution analyzes and automates processes so users can complete tasks easily in the moment of need. -
26
Tridion Docs
RWS Group
RWS is the global leader in content management and translation technology and services — more than 80 of the top 100 global companies work with us. Tridion Docs is our DITA-based Component Content Management System (CCMS). It allows you to optimize and automate complex content processes at scale and with confidence. You can author, review, localize, manage and deliver information using structured content and AI to create technical documentation, policies, procedures and other types of critical and regulatory content. Tridion Docs also enables easy information discovery and automated delivery of the right information to the right recipient using AI-driven recommendations, so employees, business partners and customers gain easy access to the information they need in the moment. Outperforming the competition Independent analyst firm, Ars Logica, scrutinised Tridion Docs’ performance and found it outperformed the competition in 8 of 11 categories. -
27
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. -
28
MkDocs
MkDocs
MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file. There's a stack of good looking themes available for MkDocs. Choose between the built in themes, mkdocs and readthedocs, select one of the third-party themes listed on the MkDocs Themes wiki page, or build your own. Get your project documentation looking just the way you want it by customizing your theme and/or installing some plugins. Modify Markdown's behavior with Markdown extensions. Many configuration options are available. The built-in dev-server allows you to preview your documentation as you're writing it. It will even auto-reload and refresh your browser whenever you save your changes. MkDocs builds completely static HTML sites that you can host on GitHub pages, Amazon S3, or anywhere else you choose. -
29
Daux.io
Daux.io
Daux.io is a documentation generator that uses a simple folder structure and Markdown files to create custom documentation on the fly. It helps you create great looking documentation in a developer friendly way. The navigation is generated automatically with all pages that end with .md or .markdown. To sort your files and folders in a specific way, you can prefix them with a number and underscore. Full access to the internal API to create new pages programatically. Work with pages metadata. 100% mobile responsive, 4 built-in themes or roll your own. Functional, flat design style, optional code float layout, and shareable/linkable SEO friendly URLs. Supports Google Analytics and Piwik Analytics. Change the output format. It is recommended you set only formats that support the live mode as this will also be read by the integrated web server. And you set the other formats (like confluence) only by command line. -
30
GenHelp
FraserSoft
GenHelp and GenHelp Pro are new generation tools to assist in documenting code and creating help files. They take source files and import them to produce a file that can be used to create several forms of documentation. The files provided can then be shipped out with components, giving a much more professional product. GenHelp can also produce simple normal help files without requiring knowledge of rich text coding. GenHelp is the basic version which imports Delphi/Object Pascal and C++/C files along with comments. It can produce WinHelp and simple Html output. This allows help files to be created for Delphi 3-7 and C++ Builder 3-6 as well as other IDEs. GenHelp Pro is the fully featured version which supports all versions of Delphi/C++ Builder/RAD Studio up to and including XE10. It has a 'Template' based help generation system so that any format of Help file is possible. At present HtmlHelp 1, HtmlHelp 2, Rich Text based manuals and Html output for Web sites is supported.