Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to APIdoc

Product categories

API Tools APIs Developer Tools Development Documentation Documentation As A Service & Tools Internal Knowledgebase Knowledge Base Knowledge Management Online Services Static Site Generators Tool

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to APIdoc are JSDoc, Compodoc, and TypeDoc. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

JSDoc Landing Page
1

JSDoc

An API documentation generator for JavaScript.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Developer Tools 49 social mentions
Compodoc Landing Page
2

Compodoc

The missing documentation tool for your Angular application
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 10 social mentions
TypeDoc Landing Page
3

TypeDoc

A documentation generator for TypeScript projects
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 13 social mentions
swagger.io Landing Page
4

swagger.io

Swagger is an open source RESTapi Documentation Tool.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#API Tools #APIs #Documentation 81 social mentions
Docco Landing Page
5

Docco

Docco is a quick-and-dirty, hundred-line-long, literate-programming-style documentation generator.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 1 social mentions
ESDoc Landing Page
6

ESDoc

Documentation generator for JavaScript
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 1 social mentions
DocFX Landing Page
7

DocFX

A documentation generation tool for API reference and Markdown files!
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 7 social mentions
phpDocumentor 2 Landing Page
8

phpDocumentor 2

PHP documentation generator based on docblock parsing.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 2 social mentions
GitBook Landing Page
9

GitBook

Modern Publishing, Simply taking your books from ideas to finished, polished books.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Management 2 social mentions
OpenAPI Generator Landing Page
10

OpenAPI Generator

OpenAPI Generator enables you to generate documentation, clients, and servers from OpenAPI 2.0/3.x documents without hassle.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development #Tool #Online Services 39 social mentions
Docusaurus Landing Page
11

Docusaurus

Easy to maintain open source documentation websites
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Static Site Generators 192 social mentions
MkDocs Landing Page
12

MkDocs

Project documentation with Markdown.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 2 social mentions