Alternatives to Kotobee Author
A desktop authoring tool for building interactive ebooks and exporting them to EPUB, apps and web formats. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Kotobee Author
A desktop authoring tool for building interactive ebooks and exporting them to EPUB, apps and web formats.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Kotobee Author.
Pressbooks
A web-based platform for writing and publishing digital books and open educational resources.
Pressbooks is a paid web platform for writing and exporting digital books with H5P interactive content, aimed at institutions, and works only as an online service.
Jutoh
A desktop ebook editor that creates EPUB, Kindle and print-ready books from Word or text files.
Jutoh is a paid desktop editor that exports Kindle, EPUB, HTML and CBZ from Word or text files, without interactive app or SCORM output.
Sigil
An EPUB editor with a code view and a visual view side by side, plus validation and metadata tools.
Sigil is a free, GPL-3.0 EPUB editor with code and visual views and validation, but it produces EPUB only, with no app or web export.
Vellum
A macOS app for formatting manuscripts into ebooks and print-ready books.
Vellum is a paid macOS-only app that formats manuscripts into ebooks and print books, focused on novels rather than interactive or learning content.
Atticus
A book writing and formatting tool for producing print books and ebooks on any desktop platform.
Atticus is a paid writing and formatting tool for print books and ebooks on any desktop, without interactive or learning management exports.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Kotobee Author as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Reedsy Studio
A browser-based writing app for authors that formats a manuscript into a finished book as you write.
Kotobee Author is a desktop tool for interactive ebooks exporting to EPUB, apps and web formats, with advanced publishing features in paid plans.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
EPUBCheck
The official W3C conformance checker that validates EPUB publications from the command line.
PageEdit
A visual editor for the XHTML pages inside EPUB ebooks, from the Sigil project.
Calibre
The ebook library manager: view, convert, edit and catalogue books in every major format, and talk to e-readers.
