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View 26 business solutionsBrowse free open source Documentation software and projects for Windows below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Documentation software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Doxygen is a JavaDoc like documentation system for C++, C, Java and IDL.
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PlantUML allows to quickly create some UML diagram using a simple textual description language.
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Joplin
Open source note taking and to-do app with synchronization
Joplin is a free and open source note-taking and to-do application that can handle a large number of notes in Markdown format, organize them into notebooks and synchronize them with various cloud services. All notes can also be copied, tagged, searched and modified directly from the app or through your own text editor. Notes that are exported from Evernote can be imported into Joplin, be it formatted content, resources, complete metadata or plain Markdown files. When notes are synchronized with cloud services, notebooks, tags and other metadata can easily be moved, inspected or backed up as plain text files. Supported cloud services include Nextcloud, OneDrive, Dropbox and WebDAV. Joplin is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android, with three types: desktop, mobile and terminal. All of them have similar user interfaces and can be synchronized with each other. -
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TagSpaces
TagSpaces is an offline, open source, document manager with tagging
TagSpaces is a free, no vendor lock-in, open source application for organizing, annotating and managing local files with the help of tags. It features advanced note taking functionalities and some capabilities of to-do apps. The application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android. We provide a web clipper extension for Firefox, Edge and Chrome for easy collecting of online content in the form of local files. File and folder management - TagSpaces provides a convenient user interface for browsing, viewing and man files and folders. The application supports two ways for tagging files. The default one embeds the tags directly in the name of the file, the other one uses a so called sidecar files for persisting the tags. The search functionality supports fuzzy functionality and can filter your locations for files and folders containing one or more tags. -
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Mermaid
Diagram and flowchart generation from text similar to markdown
Mermaid is a JavaScript-based diagram and flowchart generating tool that uses markdown-inspired text for fast and easy generation of diagrams and charts. Forget about using heavy tools to explain your code. Mermaid greatly simplifies documentation with its simple markdown-like script language, and offers a great range of diagram and chart options. The latest version of Mermaid comes with a number of bug fixes and enhancements, as well as a new diagram type, entity relationship diagrams. Its range of available diagrams include flowcharts, sequence diagrams, gantt diagrams and more, with new ones continuously being developed. -
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TestLink
Test & requirements management
TestLink is a web based Test Management tool. The application provides Test specification, Test plans and execution, Reporting, Requirements specification and collaborate with well-known bug trackers. Repository: https://github.com/TestLinkOpenSourceTRMS -
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Utilities for general- and special-purpose documentation. Includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.
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Swagger UI
HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that generate Swagger documentation
Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API. 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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Leo is an outlining-oriented project manager and browser. With Leo you can organize programs, web sites, URL's, pictures or any other kind of data. Leo is fully scriptable in Python. Leo is 100% pure Python. It requires the Qt gui toolkit.
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Sphinx
Main repository for the Sphinx documentation builder
Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license. It was originally created for the Python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the documentation of software projects in a range of languages. Of course, this site is also created from reStructuredText sources using Sphinx! HTML (including Windows HTML Help), LaTeX (for printable PDF versions), ePub, Texinfo, manual pages, plain text. Semantic markup and automatic links for functions, classes, citations, glossary terms and similar pieces of information. Easy definition of a document tree, with automatic links to siblings, parents and children. General index as well as a language-specific module index. Automatic highlighting using the Pygments highlighter. Automatic testing of code snippets, the inclusion of docstrings from Python modules (API docs), and more. -
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Swagger Editor
An editor designed for Swagger
Swagger Editor lets you edit Swagger API specifications in YAML inside your browser and to preview documentations in real time. Valid Swagger JSON descriptions can then be generated and used with the full Swagger tooling (code generation, documentation, etc). swagger-editor is a traditional npm module intended for use in single-page applications that are capable of resolving dependencies (via Webpack, Browserify, etc). swagger-editor-dist is a dependency-free module that includes everything you need to serve Swagger Editor in a server-side project, or a web project that can't resolve npm module dependencies. If you're building a single-page application, using swagger-editor is strongly recommended, since swagger-editor-dist is significantly larger. -
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BookStack
Simple & Free Wiki Software
BookStack is a free and open source platform for storing and organising information and documentation. A self-hosted and opinionated wiki system, BookStack is simple and easy to use, giving even new users with just basic word-processing skills a pleasant out of the box experience. BookStack offers a relaxed, open and positive approach. While the platform can provide advanced power features to those who want them, it is primarily designed not to be extensible outside of its core purpose. That being said, BookStack already comes with plenty of powerful features, such as search and linking, cross-book sorting, image management and more. It is also multi-lingual and offers options for authentication integration. -
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Zeal
Offline documentation browser inspired by Dash
Zeal is a simple offline documentation browser inspired by Dash. Get binary builds for Windows and Linux from the download page. After installing Zeal go to Tools ⟶ Docsets to browse and download docsets. You can limit search results to specific (or a set of specific) docsets. The docset filter and the search query are delimited by a colon character (:). If you prefer, you can start Zeal with a query from the command line. You can also search multiple docsets separating them with a comma. You can limit the search scope by using ':' to indicate the desired docsets. -
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cloc (Count Lines Of Code) counts, and computes differences of, comment lines, blank lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages. cloc is now being developed at https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
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Papermerge
Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives
Papermerge is an open source document management system (DMS) primarily designed for archiving and retrieving your digital documents. Instead of having piles of paper documents all over your desk, office or drawers - you can quickly scan them and configure your scanner to directly upload to Papermerge DMS. Store, organize and index scanned documents in PDF, JPEG and TIFF formats. Instantly find relevant information using full text, tags and metadata-based search. Papermerge is free and open-source software which means that transparency is the core value of our software development. Source code can be reviewed and improved by anyone from anywhere. Papermerge supports multiple users. Each user can be assigned different permissions to perform only a specific kind of action e.g. view only documents from a specific folder. OCR technology is vital part of Papermerge. It extracts text information from scanned documents, PDF, JPEG, TIFF files. -
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OpenAPI Generator
OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries
With 50+ client generators, you can easily generate code to interact with any server which exposes an OpenAPI document. Maintainers of APIs may also automatically generate and distribute clients as part of official SDKs. Each client supports different options and features, but all templates can be replaced with your own Mustache-based templates. Getting started with server development can be tough, especially if you're evaluating technologies. We can reduce the burden when you bring your own OpenAPI document. Some generators support Inversion of Control, allowing you to iterate on design via your OpenAPI document without worrying about blowing away your entire domain layer when you regenerate code. Ever wanted to iteratively design a MySQL database, but writing table declarations was too tedious? OpenAPI documents allow you to convert the metadata about your API into some other format. -
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Wiki.js
A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js
Works on virtually any platform and is compatible with either PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server or SQLite! Manage all aspects of your wiki using the extensive and intuitive admin area. Running on the blazing-fast Node.js engine, Wiki.js is built with performance in mind. Fully customize the appearance of your wiki, including a light and dark mode. You'll be ready to go within minutes! Step-by-step install guides are available for all platforms. Make your wiki public, completely private, or a mix of both. Whether it's on a tiny Raspberry Pi or on a high-performance VM in the cloud, Wiki.js intelligently makes use of the available resources. Built-in authentication with self-registration and password recovery capabilities. Use 3rd-party authentication services like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Discord, Slack and more. Add an extra layer of security using two-factor authentication for supported authentication modules. -
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RDoc
RDoc produces HTML and online documentation for Ruby projects
RDoc produces HTML and command-line documentation for Ruby projects. RDoc includes the rdoc and ri tools for generating and displaying documentation from the command line. -
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Cucumber.js
Cucumber for JavaScript
Cucumber is a tool for running automated tests written in plain language. Because they're written in plain language, they can be read by anyone on your team. Because they can be read by anyone, you can use them to help improve communication, collaboration and trust on your team. Cucumber.js is the JavaScript implementation of Cucumber and runs on the maintained Node.js versions. It’s simple. Whether open source or commercial, our collaboration tools will boost your engineering team's performance by employing Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). And with our world-class training, take it to places it’s never been. Validate executable specifications against your code on any modern development stack. 40+ million open source downloads, the #1 tool for BDD. CucumberStudio is the leading collaboration platform for BDD - an easy-to-use tool to define ideas, test code, and learn in production from real-time insight. -
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DevDocs
API Documentation Browser
The devdocs repository powers the DevDocs web application, a fast, offline-friendly documentation browser for many programming languages, libraries, and APIs. It aggregates documentation from multiple sources (e.g., MDN, Python, Ruby, Git, etc.), converts them into a uniform format, and indexes them for instant text searching. The codebase includes a backend that handles ingestion, parsing, and transformation of documentation sources into a static site structure, as well as the client side UI code for browsing, searching, and reading docs in a responsive interface. DevDocs supports offline usage: users can download sets of docs for use without an internet connection, benefiting from caching and compact compressed storage. The repository includes scripts for updating doc sources, building, and deploying the documentation site. Because it is meant as a reference tool, performance and usability (e.g. fast search, minimal latency) are emphasized in design. -
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Just the Docs
A modern, high customizable, responsive Jekyll theme for documention
Just the Docs gives your documentation a jumpstart with a responsive Jekyll theme that is easily customizable and hosted on GitHub Pages. Just the Docs is built for Jekyll, a static site generator. View the Jekyll quick start guide for more information. Just the Docs requires no special plugins and can run on GitHub Pages’ standard Jekyll compiler. The Jekyll SEO Tag plugin is included by default (no need to run any special installation) to inject SEO and open graph metadata on docs pages. Your theme is set up just like a normal Jekyll site! To test your theme, run bundle exec jekyll serve. Add pages, documents, data, etc. like normal to test your theme's contents. As you make modifications to your theme and to your content, your site will regenerate and you should see the changes in the browser after a refresh, just like normal. -
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MkDocs
Project documentation with Markdown
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. Start by reading the introductory tutorial, then check the User Guide for more information. 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. -
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Readme Typing SVG
Dynamically generated, customizable SVG
The readme-typing-svg is a simple and customizable library that allows developers to add typing effect animations to their GitHub readme files. It enables the display of dynamic, eye-catching text in the form of a typing animation, giving GitHub profiles and project readmes a more interactive and engaging appearance. It’s ideal for showcasing projects or adding a personal touch to your GitHub profile. -
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Msc-generator
Draws signalling charts, block diagrams and graphs from text input.
NOTE! We have moved to https://gitlab.com/msc-generator/msc-generator All development happens there. Also, download new releases & submit issues there. A tool to draw various charts from textual descriptions. Currently, three types of charts are supported: Message Sequence Charts, generic Graphs, and Block Diagrams, with more to be added in the future. There is a command-line version for Linux and Mac (replacing mscgen), which now sports a GUI, as well. Msc-generator allows fine control over the appearance and has a rich feature set complete with detailed documentation. On Windows, you can embed the charts in a document or presentation and simply double-click it in Office to edit them. On Linux and the Mac, a command-line version is available, and a GUI, as well. A .deb package is available starting from Debian Bookworm (currently testing) and Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04) from the official repositories. For older releases see the Wiki. A Mac homebrew package is available. -
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DocSearch
The easiest way to add search to your documentation
Initially created to fulfill our own developers' needs, DocSearch quickly evolved into a successful community project. Over the years, we've explored new ways to address the complexities of search for the open-source community. DocSearch understands how the user input fits into the context of your project and instantly presents the most relevant content with fewer interactions than any other method. With a design very close to the native experience on mobile, we leverage users acquaintance with the interaction patterns of each OS. We scrape your documentation or technical blog, configure the Algolia application and send you the snippet you'll have to integrate. It's that simple. You don't need to configure any settings or even have an Algolia account. We take care of this for you! We'll send you a small snippet to integrate DocSearch to your website and an invite to your fully configured Algolia application.