Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to ReadMe

Product categories

API API Observability API Testing API Tools APIs Developer APIs Developer Tools Documentation Documentation As A Service & Tools Internal Knowledgebase Knowledge Base Knowledge Management

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to ReadMe are GitBook, Docusaurus, and Postman. 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.

GitBook Landing Page
1

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
Docusaurus Landing Page
2

Docusaurus

Easy to maintain open source documentation websites
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Static Site Generators 192 social mentions
Postman Landing Page
3

Postman

The Collaboration Platform for API Development
Pricing:
- Open Source
#APIs #API Tools #Developer Tools 27 social mentions
MkDocs Landing Page
4

MkDocs

Project documentation with Markdown.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 2 social mentions
Devhints Landing Page
5

Devhints

TL;DR for developer documentation
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Cryptocurrencies 17 social mentions
swagger.io Landing Page
6

swagger.io

Swagger is an open source RESTapi Documentation Tool.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#API Tools #APIs #Documentation 81 social mentions
JSDoc Landing Page
7

JSDoc

An API documentation generator for JavaScript.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Developer Tools 48 social mentions
Autocode Landing Page
8

Autocode

Build app-to-app API workflows with automatic codegen
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Service Automation #Automation #Developer Tools 23 social mentions
Insomnia REST Landing Page
9

Insomnia REST

The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client ð´
Pricing:
- Open Source
#API Tools #API #Developer Tools 120 social mentions
Wiki.js Landing Page
10

Wiki.js

An open source, modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js, Git, and Markdown.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#WiKi #Knowledge Base #Documentation 67 social mentions
Treblle Landing Page
11

Treblle

Mission Control For Your APIs
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- $99.0 / Monthly ("1M API requests/mo", "5 users", "Unlimited projects")
#API Observability #Developer Tools #Developer APIs 25 social mentions
Daux.io Landing Page
12

Daux.io

Daux.io is a documentation generator that uses a simple folder structure and Markdown files to...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base