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73 tools

Scribe

Step-by-step guide capture ·

Browser extension and desktop app that records a process as you click and writes it up as a guide with screenshots.

  • Free plan or free tier
  • Drafts text with AI

Tango

Step-by-step guide capture ·

Captures workflows in the browser and turns them into step-by-step how-to guides with annotated screenshots.

  • Free plan or free tier

iorad

Step-by-step guide capture ·

Captures a process as you perform it and outputs an interactive tutorial, a written guide and a video from one recording.

Folge

Step-by-step guide capture ·

Desktop app that captures screenshots for each step of a process and exports guides to PDF, Word, HTML and other formats.

Trainual

SOPs and playbooks ·

Playbook and training software where small and mid-size businesses document processes, roles and policies and assign them to staff.

Process Street

SOPs and playbooks ·

Checklist and workflow software for recurring procedures, with forms, approvals and records of who completed each step.

  • Developer API

Waybook

SOPs and playbooks ·

Company playbook software for writing SOPs, onboarding new hires and keeping policies in one place.

Dozuki

SOPs and playbooks ·

Visual work instructions and training software for manufacturing and frontline teams, built around photos and short steps.

Tallyfy

SOPs and playbooks ·

Documents a procedure as a template and runs it as a tracked workflow each time the process starts.

Document360

Help center and knowledge base · by Kovai

Knowledge base platform for public help centers and internal docs, with versioning, categories and an AI assistant for search and drafting.

  • Drafts text with AI
  • Developer API

GitBook

API and developer docs ·

Documentation platform for product and API docs, with Git sync, an editor for non-developers and AI search over published content.

  • Free plan or free tier
  • Drafts text with AI
  • Developer API

ReadMe

API and developer docs ·

Hosted developer hub that builds interactive API reference pages from an OpenAPI file, alongside guides, changelogs and usage metrics.

  • Free plan or free tier
  • Developer API

Mintlify

API and developer docs ·

Docs platform where pages live as MDX files in your repo and publish to a hosted site with API playgrounds and AI search.

  • Free plan or free tier

Redocly

API and developer docs ·

API documentation tools built on OpenAPI, including the open-source Redoc renderer, a linter and a hosted developer portal.

Stoplight

API and developer docs · by SmartBear

API design and documentation platform with a visual OpenAPI editor, style guides and hosted reference docs.

Docusaurus

API and developer docs · by Meta Open Source

Open-source static site generator for documentation, written in React, with versioning, search plugins and Markdown or MDX pages.

  • Free plan or free tier
  • Can be self-hosted

Fern

API and developer docs ·

Generates API reference docs and client SDKs from an API definition and publishes them to a hosted docs site.

Swagger

API and developer docs · by SmartBear

Open-source and hosted tools around the OpenAPI format, including Swagger UI for interactive reference pages and Swagger Editor.

  • Free plan or free tier
  • Can be self-hosted

Bump.sh

API and developer docs ·

Hosts API reference docs from OpenAPI and AsyncAPI files and shows a changelog of what changed between versions.

MadCap Flare

Help authoring and CCMS · by MadCap Software

Desktop help authoring tool for single-source publishing of online help, manuals and knowledge bases from one XML-based project.

  • Can be self-hosted

Paligo

Help authoring and CCMS ·

Cloud component content management system for structured authoring, content reuse, translation and publishing to many formats.

Heretto

Help authoring and CCMS ·

Structured content platform based on DITA for writing, reusing and publishing technical documentation and help portals.

ClickHelp

Help authoring and CCMS ·

Browser-based documentation tool for technical writers, with single sourcing, review workflows and publishing to help portals.

Writer

Technical writing checks ·

Enterprise AI writing platform that checks text against a company style guide and terminology and drafts content.

  • Drafts text with AI

Vale

Technical writing checks ·

Open-source prose linter that checks docs against style rules you define, often run in code editors and CI pipelines.

  • Free plan or free tier
  • Can be self-hosted

LanguageTool

Technical writing checks ·

Grammar, spelling and style checker for many languages, with browser and editor add-ons and an open-source server.

  • Free plan or free tier
  • Developer API
  • Can be self-hosted

Grammarly

Technical writing checks ·

Writing assistant for grammar, clarity and tone that works across browsers, desktop apps and office tools.

  • Free plan or free tier
  • Drafts text with AI

Loom

Screen recording and tutorial video · by Atlassian

Records your screen and camera and shares the video as a link, with transcripts and AI-written titles and summaries.

  • Free plan or free tier
  • Drafts text with AI

Arcade

Interactive walkthroughs ·

Records a product flow and turns it into an interactive, clickable demo you can embed in help articles and pages.

  • Free plan or free tier

Supademo

Interactive walkthroughs ·

Builds interactive product walkthroughs from screen captures, with hotspots, voiceover and branching steps.

  • Free plan or free tier

Glean

Internal wiki and search ·

Workplace search and AI assistant that indexes company apps and answers questions with links to the source documents.

  • Developer API

Slab

Internal wiki and search ·

Internal knowledge base with a clean editor, topics for organizing pages and unified search across connected apps.

Tettra

Internal wiki and search ·

Internal knowledge base with page verification reminders and an AI assistant that answers staff questions from your pages.

Outline

Internal wiki and search ·

Team knowledge base with a Markdown-friendly editor, available as a hosted service or as open-source software you run yourself.

  • Developer API
  • Can be self-hosted

BookStack

Internal wiki and search ·

Free, open-source wiki you host yourself, organized as shelves, books, chapters and pages.

  • Free plan or free tier
  • Developer API
  • Can be self-hosted

Wiki.js

Internal wiki and search · by Requarks

Open-source wiki built on Node.js, with Markdown and visual editors, Git storage sync and many login options.

  • Free plan or free tier
  • Developer API
  • Can be self-hosted

Coveo

Internal wiki and search ·

AI search platform used to power search across help centers, support portals and workplace content.

  • Developer API