Authoring & Help Tools — Tech writing resources by Type (page 2)

Guidde

Authoring & Help Tools

A tool that captures a workflow and generates a narrated how-to video and accompanying step document using AI voiceover.

guidde.com

Help+Manual

Authoring & Help Tools

A Windows help authoring tool that produces online help, PDF manuals, ePub and HTML output from a single source project.

helpandmanual.com

Writer

Authoring & Help Tools

An enterprise AI writing platform that generates and checks content against a company's own style guide and terminology.

writer.com

AppFlowy

Authoring & Help Tools

An open-source collaborative workspace for notes, wikis and project data that can be self-hosted for full data control.

appflowy.io

Congree

Authoring & Help Tools

An authoring assistance system that supports consistent terminology and controlled language in technical documentation.

congree.com

Notion

Authoring & Help Tools

A collaborative workspace combining documents, databases and wikis, commonly used for internal documentation and specs.

notion.com

Stonly

Authoring & Help Tools

A platform for building step-by-step interactive guides and decision trees for customer self-service and agent support.

stonly.com

Chameleon

Authoring & Help Tools

A product adoption platform for in-app tours, tooltips, surveys and help launchers targeted at specific user segments.

chameleon.io

Helpjuice

Authoring & Help Tools

Knowledge base software for internal and customer-facing documentation, with customisable themes and search reporting.

helpjuice.com

Coda

Authoring & Help Tools

A document platform that blends text, tables and automations, used for internal handbooks and process documentation.

coda.io

Pendo

Authoring & Help Tools

A product experience platform combining usage analytics with in-app guides and resource centres for user assistance.

pendo.io

Camtasia

Authoring & Help Tools

TechSmith's screen recording and video editing tool, widely used to produce software tutorials and training videos.

techsmith.com

WalkMe

Authoring & Help Tools

A digital adoption platform that overlays step-by-step guidance and contextual help on web and enterprise software.

walkme.com

Almanac

Authoring & Help Tools

A document platform with branching and version control aimed at team handbooks and internal process documentation.

almanac.io

Slite

Authoring & Help Tools

A team knowledge base that keeps internal documentation verified and answers questions from the existing doc set.

slite.com

Storylane

Authoring & Help Tools

A demo automation platform for creating guided interactive product tours used in onboarding and sales enablement.

storylane.io

Help Scout

Authoring & Help Tools

A customer support platform that includes Docs, a knowledge base tool for publishing self-service help articles.

helpscout.com

Logseq

Authoring & Help Tools

A privacy-first open-source outliner and knowledge base that stores content as local Markdown or Org-mode files.

logseq.com

UserGuiding

Authoring & Help Tools

A product adoption tool for creating interactive product tours, checklists and in-app help centres without code.

userguiding.com

Confluence

Authoring & Help Tools

Atlassian's team workspace and wiki, widely used for internal product documentation, requirements and runbooks.

atlassian.com

Guru

Authoring & Help Tools

An internal knowledge platform that surfaces verified company knowledge inside the tools employees already use.

getguru.com

Mem

Authoring & Help Tools

An AI note-taking and knowledge tool that organises meeting notes, projects and reference material for a team.

mem.ai

AFFiNE

Authoring & Help Tools

An open-source knowledge base that combines documents, whiteboards and databases in a single editing surface.

affine.pro

Appcues

Authoring & Help Tools

A no-code platform for building in-app onboarding flows, tooltips and announcements without engineering work.

appcues.com

HelpSite

Authoring & Help Tools

A lightweight hosted service for publishing a simple support knowledge base or FAQ site on a custom domain.

helpsite.com

Arcade

Authoring & Help Tools

A platform for building interactive product demos and short product videos from recorded browser sessions.

arcade.software

HelpDocs

Authoring & Help Tools

A hosted knowledge base tool for customer-facing help centres, with in-app widgets and search analytics.

helpdocs.io

Kapa.ai

Authoring & Help Tools

A retrieval service that builds an AI assistant from a company's documentation, support content and code so users can ask questions directly.

kapa.ai

Inkeep

Authoring & Help Tools

A platform that turns product documentation and support content into an AI search and answering layer for docs sites and support channels.

inkeep.com

Mendable

Authoring & Help Tools

A tool for building AI chat applications over ingested documentation and technical content, with deployment and customisation options.

mendable.ai

Mermaid

Authoring & Help Tools

A JavaScript library that renders diagrams from a plain-text syntax, letting flowcharts and sequence diagrams live in Markdown source.

mermaid.js.org

asciinema

Authoring & Help Tools

An open-source tool and hosting service for recording terminal sessions as lightweight text-based casts that can be embedded in docs.

asciinema.org

Hemingway Editor

Authoring & Help Tools

A readability-focused editor that highlights long sentences, passive voice and complex phrasing to push writing toward plainer prose.

hemingwayapp.com

draw.io

Authoring & Help Tools

An open-source diagramming application for flowcharts, architecture and network diagrams, usable in the browser or as a desktop app.

drawio.com

VHS

Authoring & Help Tools

A command-line tool that scripts terminal recordings from a text file, producing reproducible GIFs and videos for CLI documentation.

github.com

Excalidraw

Authoring & Help Tools

An open-source virtual whiteboard that produces hand-drawn style diagrams, often used for architecture sketches in documentation.

excalidraw.com