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Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

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Free and open source under the BSD 2-Clause licence.

Windows Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
  • Supports 25 languages in one documentation set
  • Plain-English comment syntax without heavy tags
  • Strong cross-referencing, including across projects
  • Outputs HTML, PDF via LaTeX, ePub and Texinfo
  • Newer 2.4 features are still in development releases
  • Comment style differs from Javadoc or Doxygen conventions
  • reStructuredText has a learning curve
  • Requires a Python environment
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: AGPL-3.0 License: BSD-2-Clause
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Works offline Works offline

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