Open-source documentation software
1012 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged documentation, ranked by how closely documentation is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
1012 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| keonik/prisma-erd-generator A Prisma generator plugin that automatically produces an entity-relationship diagram (ERD) from your Prisma schema each time you run `npx p… | 94 | 1035 | active |
| BookStack BookStack is a self-hosted online documentation and book management system written in Go on the Beego framework, based on MinDoc and simila… | 23 | 3510 | maintenance |
| langchain-ai/mcpdoc An MCP server that exposes llms.txt documentation indexes to IDEs and AI coding apps like Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code. It provides a … | 10 | 1030 | active |
| filiparag/wikiman Wikiman is an offline documentation search engine for Unix-like systems that indexes manual pages, tldr-pages, ArchWiki, Gentoo Wiki, FreeB… | 71 | 1024 | active |
| Public Lab Plots2 plots2 is the Ruby on Rails content management system powering PublicLab.org, combining a research blog, wiki, Q&A portal, and tagging-base… | 44 | 1023 | active |
| v8/v8.dev The source code of v8.dev, the official website of the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine project. It is a Node.js-based static site that… | 70 | 1020 | active |
| microsoft/referencesource A read-only mirror of the Microsoft .NET Framework Reference Source, containing source code for a subset of the .NET Framework class librar… | 40 | 3456 | maintenance |
| marwin1991/profile-technology-icons A web-based generator that provides a curated collection of technology icons for decorating GitHub profile READMEs. Users search for techno… | 77 | 1017 | active |
| mpociot/laravel-apidoc-generator A Laravel/Lumen package that automatically generates API documentation from your application's routes using annotations and strategies, out… | 23 | 3449 | maintenance |
| qiubaiying/qiubaiying.github.io A Jekyll-based personal blog theme/template designed for hosting on GitHub Pages. It provides a ready-to-fork blog with sidebar, tags, comm… | 32 | 3311 | maintenance |
| Dynalon/mdwiki MDwiki is a 100% client-side CMS/wiki implemented as a single HTML file that renders Markdown pages entirely in the browser with no server-… | 23 | 3191 | maintenance |
| egoist/devdocs-desktop An unofficial cross-platform desktop application wrapping DevDocs.io, which aggregates many API documentations into a fast, searchable inte… | 10 | 3103 | maintenance |
| spadgos/sublime-jsdocs DocBlockr is a Sublime Text package that simplifies writing DocBlock documentation comments across many languages including JavaScript, PHP… | 32 | 3077 | maintenance |
| tudou527/marketch Marketch is a Sketch 3 plugin that automatically generates an HTML page from a Sketch file, allowing users to inspect element measurements … | 10 | 2896 | maintenance |
| jbt/markdown-editor A browser-based live Markdown editor with GitHub-Flavored Markdown support that renders a preview as you type. It is a small JavaScript web… | 32 | 2869 | maintenance |
| ESDoc ESDoc is a documentation generator for JavaScript that produces static HTML API docs from doc comments, targeting ES2015 class and module s… | 23 | 2727 | maintenance |
| CodecrumbsIO/codecrumbs Codecrumbs is a tool for learning, designing, and documenting codebases by placing breadcrumb comments in source code, which are rendered a… | 32 | 2706 | maintenance |
| rstacruz/flatdoc Flatdoc is a small JavaScript library that fetches Markdown files (including GitHub Readme files via the GitHub API) and renders them as fu… | 32 | 2656 | maintenance |
| PKM-er/Blue-topaz-example An example Obsidian vault showcasing the Blue Topaz CSS theme, bundled with dozens of preconfigured community plugins and tutorial notes. I… | 23 | 2637 | maintenance |
| ElegantLaTeX/ElegantBook ElegantBook is a LaTeX document class/template designed for writing books, offering elegant styling for chapters, theorems, and exercises. … | 74 | 2620 | maintenance |
| karpathy/rendergit A Python CLI tool that flattens any GitHub repository into a single static HTML page with syntax highlighting, markdown rendering, and side… | 31 | 2473 | maintenance |
| for-GET/know-your-http-well A reference dataset and library summarizing HTTP encodings, headers, media types, methods, relations, and status codes, with links to their… | 23 | 2447 | maintenance |
| EhsanTang/ApiManager CrapApi is a free, open-source, self-hosted API management platform built with AngularJS, Bootstrap, SpringMVC, and MyBatis. It provides AP… | 23 | 2415 | maintenance |
| Terminus2049/Terminus2049.github.io Terminus (端点星) is a GitHub Pages-hosted site built with Jekyll that archives articles deleted from Chinese platforms like WeChat and Weibo … | 32 | 2372 | maintenance |
| JelteF/PyLaTeX PyLaTeX is a Python library for creating and compiling LaTeX files or snippets. It provides an easy but extensible interface between Python… | 23 | 2356 | maintenance |
| Regexper Regexper is a web application that visualizes regular expressions as SVG railroad diagrams, powering regexper.com. This repository is the s… | 10 | 2268 | maintenance |
| mylxsw/wizard Wizard is an open-source, self-hosted documentation management system for teams, supporting Markdown, Swagger (OpenAPI 3.0), and spreadshee… | 23 | 2265 | maintenance |
| 28mm/blast-radius Blast Radius is a tool that renders interactive visualizations of Terraform dependency graphs using Graphviz layouts enhanced with d3.js. I… | 32 | 2193 | maintenance |
| Hologram Hologram is a Ruby gem that parses specially formatted /*doc */ comments in CSS (and other source files) and generates static HTML style gu… | 32 | 2165 | maintenance |
| tj/dox Dox is a JavaScript documentation generator for Node.js that parses JSDoc-style comments and markdown to produce a JSON representation of y… | 23 | 2149 | maintenance |
| Fractal Fractal is a Node.js tool for building, previewing, and documenting website component libraries and design systems. It supports any templat… | 10 | 2127 | maintenance |
| SpringForAll/spring-boot-starter-swagger A Spring Boot starter that auto-configures Swagger 2.x (SpringFox) to generate API documentation for Spring MVC applications with minimal s… | 23 | 2101 | maintenance |
| mkdocstrings/mkdocstrings mkdocstrings is an MkDocs plugin that automatically generates API documentation from source code docstrings, supporting multiple languages … | 87 | 2095 | maintenance |
| interagent/prmd Prmd is a Ruby command-line tool for working with JSON Schema descriptions of HTTP APIs. It scaffolds resource schemata, combines and verif… | 32 | 2087 | maintenance |
| srsudar/eg eg is a Python command-line tool that shows practical usage examples for common Unix commands, acting as a companion to man pages. Examples… | 32 | 2042 | maintenance |
| danijar/handout A Python library that turns ordinary Python scripts into browsable handouts with Markdown comments and inline figures, as an alternative to… | 32 | 2033 | maintenance |
| github/government.github.com The source for GitHub and Government, a Jekyll-based static website that curates stories of public servants and civic hackers using GitHub … | 76 | 2014 | maintenance |
| folke/neodev.nvim A Neovim plugin that configures the lua-language-server to provide full signature help, documentation, and completion for the Neovim Lua AP… | 10 | 1985 | maintenance |
| Tufte-LaTeX/tufte-latex A LaTeX document class inspired by Edward Tufte's book design, for producing handouts, papers, and books with sidenotes, wide margins, and … | 32 | 1891 | maintenance |
| summitech/gitexplorer GitExplorer is a React-based web application that helps users find the right git commands through guided dropdown selections instead of sea… | 32 | 1828 | maintenance |
| sinclairtarget/um um is a Ruby command-line utility for creating and maintaining your own man-like help pages, written in Markdown and rendered through the m… | 32 | 1819 | maintenance |
| miyuesc/bpmn-process-designer A Vue-based BPMN process designer library built on top of bpmn-js, providing a visual workflow/process diagram editor with property panels.… | 36 | 1797 | maintenance |
| mszep/pandoc_resume A template-driven resume builder that lets you write your resume once in Markdown and generate PDF, HTML, and other formats via pandoc and … | 32 | 1775 | maintenance |
| vscode-org-mode/vscode-org-mode A Visual Studio Code extension that brings Emacs Org Mode functionality to VS Code, supporting outlines, TODO lists, timestamps, and plain-… | 23 | 1728 | maintenance |
| YeDaxia/JApiDocs JApiDocs is a Java library that generates API documentation for Spring Boot projects by parsing controller source code, without requiring a… | 61 | 1693 | maintenance |
| vuese/vuese Vuese is a one-stop toolchain for automatically generating documentation for Vue components. It includes a CLI for building docs sites or m… | 32 | 1689 | maintenance |
| SwiftDocOrg/swift-doc A command-line documentation generator for Swift projects that reads Swift source files and produces HTML or CommonMark documentation for t… | 10 | 1681 | maintenance |
| fossasia/fossasia-labs-delete-legacy The legacy source code for labs.fossasia.org, FOSSASIA's projects showcase website, built with CSS and deployed via GitHub Pages. It lists … | 32 | 1676 | maintenance |
| coinbase/terraform-landscape Terraform Landscape is a Ruby-based CLI tool that reformats the output of `terraform plan` into a more readable, colorized format. It works… | 23 | 1626 | maintenance |
| xolox/vim-notes A Vim plug-in that makes it easy to create, edit, search, and navigate plain-text notes directly inside Vim. Notes are saved as files title… | 32 | 1596 | maintenance |
| strongdm/comply Comply is an open-source SOC2-focused compliance automation CLI written in Go. It generates auditor-friendly policy documents from Markdown… | 23 | 1584 | maintenance |
| Mermade/widdershins Widdershins is a Node.js CLI tool and library that converts API definitions in OpenAPI 3.x, Swagger 2.0, AsyncAPI, and Semoasa formats into… | 23 | 1582 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/2018.fossasia.org The official static website for the FOSSASIA Summit 2018, a four-day open technology conference held in Singapore in March 2018. It is an H… | 32 | 1578 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/2017.fossasia.org The static website for the FOSSASIA Summit 2017 conference held in Singapore, built with HTML/CSS/JavaScript. It presents event information… | 32 | 1574 | maintenance |
| 2fd/graphdoc graphdoc is a command-line tool that generates static HTML documentation pages from GraphQL schemas. It accepts schemas from live endpoints… | 32 | 1562 | maintenance |
| monzo/response Response is Monzo's open-source real-time incident response and reporting tool, distributed as a Django app with a Slack bot integration. I… | 23 | 1556 | maintenance |
| fossasia/yaydoc Yaydoc is an automated documentation generation and deployment service that builds documentation from registered GitHub repositories on eac… | 10 | 1541 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/2014.fossasia.org The static website for the FOSSASIA Summit 2014 open source technology conference held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is a plain HTML/CSS site… | 32 | 1537 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/2011.fossasia.org The static website for the FOSSASIA Summit 2011 conference held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, built with plain HTML. It archives event info… | 32 | 1533 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/fossasia.net The source code for the FOSSASIA.net website, the community hub for the FOSSASIA open-source organization. It is a static HTML website pres… | 32 | 1531 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/2010.fossasia.org The official website for the FOSSASIA Summit 2010, an open technology developer summit held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in November 2010. … | 32 | 1530 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/blog.fossasia.org This repository serves as the issue tracker for the FOSSASIA Blog, a WordPress-powered site at blog.fossasia.org. It contains no applicatio… | 32 | 1530 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/perspektive89.com The source repository for perspektive89.com, an open-source online journal associated with FOSSASIA. It contains the website content and co… | 32 | 1527 | maintenance |
| leostera/tldr.jsx A reactive web client for the tldr-pages project, built with React and RxJS, that lets users browse simplified man pages in the browser. It… | 10 | 1525 | maintenance |
| fossasia/fossasia.github.io The source code for the FOSSASIA organization's static website, fossasia.org, built with HTML. It serves as the public web presence for the… | 32 | 1521 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/2021.fossasia.org The official website for the FOSSASIA Summit 2021, built in HTML. It presents event information such as schedule, speakers, and venue detai… | 32 | 1504 | maintenance |
| kss-node/kss-node kss-node is a Node.js implementation of the KSS (Knyle Style Sheets) documentation syntax for CSS, which parses human-readable KSS comments… | 23 | 1498 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/coc.fossasia.org The FOSSASIA Code of Conduct website, a static site published at coc.fossasia.org that outlines community guidelines and expected behavior … | 32 | 1497 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/2020.fossasia.org The official website for the FOSSASIA Summit 2020, an annual open technology conference held in Singapore. It is a static HTML site present… | 32 | 1493 | maintenance |
| purple-force/docsite Docsite is an open-source static website generator built on Node.js that turns markdown files into documentation sites, blogs, and custom p… | 32 | 1492 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/2013.fossasia.org The official FOSSASIA 2013 conference website, built in HTML to present event activities, schedule, and information. It is a static site ma… | 32 | 1478 | maintenance |
| fossasia/sphinx_susiai_theme A Sphinx documentation theme developed by FOSSASIA, providing a custom HTML/CSS look for Python Sphinx-generated docs. It is installed as a… | 32 | 1450 | maintenance |
| FOSSASIA-Web/2019.fossasia.org The source code for the FOSSASIA Summit 2019 conference website (2019.fossasia.org), an open-source static site built in HTML. It presents … | 32 | 1440 | maintenance |
| isacikgoz/tldr tldr++ is a fast, interactive tldr client written in Go that shows community-driven simplified man pages. It distinguishes itself with smar… | 23 | 1427 | maintenance |
| SassDoc/sassdoc SassDoc is a documentation generator for Sass/SCSS, analogous to JSDoc for JavaScript. It parses documentation comments in Sass source file… | 23 | 1411 | maintenance |
| rtomayko/ronn Ronn is a Ruby command-line tool that converts simple Markdown-like text files into roff manpages and HTML. It defines the ronn format, a s… | 32 | 1405 | maintenance |
| captn3m0/google-sre-ebook A shell-based generator that downloads the Google SRE books from sre.google and compiles them into EPUB, MOBI, and PDF ebook formats. Prebu… | 66 | 1403 | maintenance |
| abynim/UserFlows A Sketch plugin that automatically generates user flow diagrams from artboards in Sketch documents. It visualizes how screens connect, help… | 32 | 1399 | maintenance |
| OpnTec/opentechsummit.in The website for OpenTechSummit India, an open-source technology conference, built as a static HTML site. It serves as the event's public in… | 32 | 1370 | maintenance |
| OpnTec/2015.opentechsummit.net The static website source for the OpenTechSummit 2015 conference and meetups, published at 2015.opentechsummit.net. It is an HTML-based eve… | 32 | 1366 | maintenance |
| OpnTec/2016.opentechsummit.net The source code for the OpenTechSummit 2016 conference website, built in HTML. It hosts event information, schedules, and related content f… | 32 | 1361 | maintenance |
| OpnTec/2017.opentechsummit.net The static website source for the OpenTechSummit 2017 conference, built in HTML and published at 2017.opentechsummit.net. It serves as an e… | 32 | 1360 | maintenance |
| OpnTec/opentechsummit.asia The website for OpenTechSummit Asia, a conference about open-source technology, built in HTML. It serves as the event's public web presence… | 32 | 1359 | maintenance |
| square/square.github.io A static Jekyll-based portal website that showcases Square's open source projects, styled like a Square merchant directory page. Repository… | 32 | 1356 | maintenance |
| docuowl/docuowl Docuowl is a Go-based documentation generator that converts a directory of Markdown files into a static single-page documentation site with… | 23 | 1310 | maintenance |
| google/typograms Typograms is a lightweight text-based image format (text/typogram) for defining simple diagrams in technical documentation, inspired by ASC… | 10 | 1301 | maintenance |
| JMCuixy/swagger2word A Java Spring Boot web application that converts Swagger/OpenAPI JSON specifications into downloadable Word documents. It accepts a Swagger… | 32 | 1280 | maintenance |
| developers-against-repressions/case-212 An open letter from IT industry professionals demanding an end to political persecution of the defendants of the 'Moscow case' in Russia. P… | 32 | 1270 | maintenance |
| marcosvidal/Sketch-Notebook A Sketch plugin that adds sidebar comments for documenting design files. It lets designers attach, edit, reorder, and manage numbered annot… | 32 | 1264 | maintenance |
| IBM/ibm.github.io The source for IBM's GitHub Pages portal at ibm.github.io, listing open-source repositories maintained by IBM teams. It is a static JavaScr… | 10 | 1264 | maintenance |
| MSzturc/obsidian-advanced-slides An Obsidian plugin that lets users create reveal.js-based slide presentations from Markdown notes. It supports live preview, themes, note/i… | 23 | 1260 | maintenance |
| mpociot/whiteboard Whiteboard is a Node.js-based API documentation generator forked from Slate, letting you write docs in Markdown and render them as a beauti… | 32 | 1223 | maintenance |
| c8r/kit Compositor Kit is a set of tools including a zero-config CLI dev server and React utility components for developing, documenting, and testi… | 32 | 1208 | maintenance |
| idratherbewriting.com site A Jekyll theme purpose-built for documentation sites and help systems, featuring multi-level sidebar navigation, search, content reuse, and… | 32 | 1201 | maintenance |
| gillescastel/latex-snippets A collection of UltiSnips snippet files and Vim configuration for fast LaTeX note-taking, popularized by a blog series on taking math lectu… | 32 | 1194 | maintenance |
| yoshuawuyts/vmd vmd is a standalone desktop application for previewing markdown files in a separate window, rendered GitHub-style. It supports file watchin… | 23 | 1183 | maintenance |
| pengwynn/flint Flint is a Go CLI tool that checks a project for common sources of contributor friction, such as missing README, CONTRIBUTING guide, LICENS… | 23 | 1182 | maintenance |
| KirillOsenkov/SourceBrowser A source browser website generator that analyzes C#/VB/MSBuild/TypeScript code with Roslyn and produces a static hyperlinked HTML website f… | 61 | 1162 | maintenance |
| shikijs/twoslash Shiki Twoslash combines the Shiki syntax highlighter with the TypeScript compiler to generate statically rendered, type-aware code samples … | 10 | 1142 | maintenance |
| tmcw/docbox Docbox is an open-source REST API documentation system that turns structured Markdown files into a friendly two-column layout with navigati… | 32 | 1131 | maintenance |