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Sphinx vs Jupyter Book: catalog facts
Sphinx	Jupyter Book
Free Free and open source under the BSD 2-Clause licence.	Free Free and open source.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Command line
Strong cross-referencing, including across projects Outputs HTML, PDF via LaTeX, ePub and Texinfo	Executes code at build time and includes the results Cross-references pages, figures and equations
reStructuredText has a learning curve Requires a Python environment	Version 2 still has known limitations Command-line workflow assumes some technical comfort
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-2-Clause	License: BSD-3-Clause
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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