ARCHBEE — TECHNICAL HELP AUTHORING TOOLSET

MadCap Flare alternative

Archbee is a new Help Authoring Tool that directly compares to MadCap Flare on features and wins on user xp and affordability

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Teams of all sizes author online help manuals with Archbee

Join 3,000+ teams using documentation as their #1 resource to answer questions

Backed by Y Combinator

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Build, publish and maintain help manuals without any help from engineering

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Discover how Archbee can help you author documentation that answers questions for end-users, devs and team.

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How is Archbee comparing with MadCap Flare?

Archbee is modernizing the writing of technical documentation. MadCap Flare is a great platform
but lacks hosting options. We’ll compare the two and give you the info you need to decide.

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Feature Comparison

Archbee

MadCap Flare

Responsive Web Design

Dynamic Preview

Search functionality

Reusable Variables

Reusable Content Snippets

Conditional Content

Document Verifications

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Team Review System

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Search Analytics

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Contextual documentation widget

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AI Write Assistance

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AI Question Answering

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Support included with all plans

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Markdown shortcuts editor with 20+ custom blocks

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Hosting and easy publishing to subdomain or subfolder

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Write, review, and organize documentation

Teamwork made simple.

Review and merge changes with your team, assign subject matter experts, and keep your content up-to-date with document verifications.

Use GitHub as your source of truth and edit your content in GitHub or in Archbee.
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This way all team members can contribute to your documentation.

Move 50% faster with AI-powered Write Assist.

Generate comprehensive documentation based on your existing documents/docs, API references and GitHub code files. Write Assist helps you summarize, edit, and even set a tone of voice.

Customized templates for an outstanding user experience.

With 30 custom blocks, including images, videos, API references, diagrams, changelogs and splits, simply drag and drop your content to craft a highly organized, interactive and intuitive end user experience.

Collaborate asynchronously in real time.

Provide instant feedback to your team, review and even merge changes as content and structured APIs are updated.

Publish docs to your own domain, hosted by Archbee.
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We provide hosting, Custom Blocks and offer custom CSS, so you can craft a seamless experience for your end users.

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The fastest way from question to answer.
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Use our App Widget in your app with our JavaScript SDK or React Component.

Authenticate users on your terms.

Archbee provides options for passwords, magic links, guest accounts, wildcard email domains, JWT tokens and more.

Get questions by your customers & community answered by your team and AI.

Create a tight feedback loop for your documentation.

Answer questions instantly with AI powered by your documentation

Scale fast.

Onboard, guide, and support your users 24/7 leveraging your own documentation, so you never need to worry about unanswered questions.

Instant onboarding.

Answer developer questions instantly, so they can dive straight into your product, API or SDK.

Accurate and instant answers to all your billing questions.

Never worry about delayed responses again.

Instant answers for developers.

Provide effortlessly scaleable support for your open source library, API, or SDK, to quickly unblock developers.

Don’t change your tech stack

Archbee integrates seamlessly with powerful tools to streamline your team's workflows.

OpenAPI Swagger

Google Analytics

Mermaid Diagrams

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FISPAN

Learn how FISPAN streamlined documentation creation and distribution with Archbee.

"We chose Archbee over other tools because it offered the flexibility and power we needed to create branded, high-quality, white-labeled documentation efficiently."

Procesio

Learn how Procesio is using Archbee to enable self-training for their customers.

"Archbee was very good in helping use reduce the time needed by our support team to onboard new users or to answer technical questions. "

Refundid

Learn how Refundid made the switch from a manual documentation to a unified workflow with Archbee.

"Archbee is super good to use when it comes to overall documentation. Great team, great support as well."

Xenett

Learn how Xenett streamlined customer onboarding by creating a public knowledge base with Archbee.

"For me, the number one argument was the ease of use."

Klevu

Learn how Klevu successfully improved collaboration across teams using Archbee.

"Archbee offered a seamless onboarding experience, with an intuitive setup that allowed us to build and organize our documentation in days without external assistance."

GetFocus

Learn how GetFocus freed up important development resources and shared their knowledge publicly with Archbee.

"It's super straight forward to use, it's really very simple. It's made it very easy for us to work together with the team on getting together all the relevant knowledge into a set of articles and step-by-step guides with images."

Tamio

Learn how Tamio has improved Tamio's developer onboarding and facilitated integration with their API.

"Archbee stood out due to its clean interface and ease of use."

KloudMate

Learn how KloudMate crated a centralized documentation repository and how it shares it with their customers.

"Archbee enabled us to centralize and publish our documentation, making it easier for users to find and understand essential information about our product."

GK8

Learn how GK8 is using Archbee to help their customers with knowledge about their products.

"The support was good, the price was affordable, choosing Archbee was a quick decision."

ReliantAI

Learn how ReliantAI is using Archbee to help its customers get the most value from their product.

"Achbee balances ease-of-use with enough customization to fit our needs"

UneeQ

Learn how UneeQ has freed valuable development resources by transitioning documentation to Archbee.

" We found Archbee easily accessible, easy to set up, and easy for anyone to contribute to without a tutorial."

IntelliProve

Learn how IntelliProve enabled their non-technical users as well as developers to acquire all the necessary information about their products with Archbee.

"Archbee had many of the features we were looking for".

Lexr

Learn how international law firm Lexr is using Archbee to create and publish their customer-facing knowledge base.

"With Archbee we found a software solution where we can conveniently fill the data base with our know-how. The easiness of having a good-looking, public-facing website that we can publish on a subdomain was also one of the most important criteria for us. "

Flipper Zero

Learn how Flipper Zero is making it easy for users to learn about their product with Archbee

"Archbee is intuitive and easy to use, simplifying the process of publishing, editing, and using the platform's tools."

Harvest

Learn how Harvest overcame the limitations of paper document formats by implementing Archbee for their technical documentation.

"We wanted to expedite the modification process, which was impeded by the inherent limitations of conventional paper document formats. Archbee felt like a modern system."

Bince Base

Learn how Bince simplified the creation and sharing of documentation with Archbee.

"Archbee has made it easy to edit our documentation and make it visible to others."

Title21

Learn how Title21 transitioned from PDF manuals to a public knowledge base with Archbee.

"Archbee helped in reducing day-to-day customer support questions as tickets and the customer support can focus on real problems and roadblocks.:

Back4app

Learn how Back4app is leveraging Archbee to support developers in building scalable applications.

"Other platforms lacked the specific features I needed, as they were more focused on internal documentation and didn’t offer the developer-specific elements that were essential for me."

Passwork

Learn why Passwork switched from Notion to Archbee.

"The ability to publish our custom domains as well as other features made us switch from Notion to Archbee".

Regpack

Learn how Archbee streamlined Regpack's API documentation workflow and improved presentation.

"With Archbee it just felt good - it was clean, simple and very intuitive."

Archipelago

Learn how Archipelago turned to Archbee to deliver product documentation internally and to their customers.

"Archbee was the easiest solution to set up. It's also very easy to use".

Traject Data

Learn how Traject Data saved considerable time and energy with API documentation maintenance and updates by using Archbee.

"Archbee is easy to implement and cost-effective, and most importantly, non-engineers can use it to manage and update our documentation, which saves us significant time and resources."

IBA

Learn how IBA transitioned from a traditional CMS setup to Archbee and integrated written docs with APIs

"There was a good match between the functionality we were looking for and the features provided by Archbee".

Breadwinner

Learn how Breadwinner switched from a public-facing helps site to Archbee to enhance self-service and branding.

"With Archbee, the well-formatted and crisp look helps us present our brand. "

Alpha Networks

Learn how Alpha Networks made it easy for their end users to browse product documentation using Archbee.

"Archbee addresses some of our core needs. We needed our product documentation to be fast, easy to maintain, and easy to browse by our end users."

Kognic

Learn how Kognic upgraded its user-facing documentation with Archbee.

"It's our main user-facing documentation".

N-Dream AG (AirConsole)

Learn how N-Dream AG switched from an in-house documentation solution that was difficult to maintain and upgrade to Archbee with very different results.

"We have gone through an update project for our documentation where several people from different departments within our company collaborated; and the experience was very positive. "

Ocient

Learn how Ocient increased web traffic to their documentation by using Archbee as their SEO-optimized documentation platform.

"we've seen a 5x increase in web traffic to docs.ocient.com and saw Ocient's Google search rankings for documentation rank in the top 10 results"

Qualetics

Learn how Qualetics is providing its customers with the documentation they need through the knowledge base built using Archbee.

"Archbee is a great ally to our platform. Our knowledge base meets our customers expectations."

Lynceus

Learn how Lynceus leveraged our start-up program and changed the way they create and share documentation with Archbee.

"Archbee provided us with a simple way to keep our docs up to date and easily share them with internal and external readers".

Element Logic

Learn how Element Logic has been improving technical knowledge sharing with Archbee.

"First of all, and the surprise was that it was so easy to write and to use a writer. That meant that our product managers and our developers wanted to write technical documentation suddenly."

Monetate

Learn how Monetate redesigned their documentation to meet growing internal and external requirements using Archbee

"Since officially launching Monetate Developer Hub on 5 September, a fair number of Monetate employees have raved about how much better the developer documentation looks."

Metzler

Learn how Metzler uses Archbee for FAQs and never has to worry about correct sitemap configurations again.

"after every single department can structure their own part of the Archbee FAQ, we are very confident that we will create a good platform with a huge knowledge base"

RealDesk AI

Learn how RealDesk improved customer training by using documentation created and shared with Archbee.

"We're really happy with Archbee and we're looking forward to doing a lot more with it and creating more content"

Cast Group

Learn how Cast Group improved support and fostered customer autonomy with Archbee.

"Archbee allowed us to organize all the documentaiton for our products in a way that truly supports our customers."

Judopay

Learn how Judopay significantly improved their user documentation processes with Archbee.

"With Archbee in place, "our developer documentation now has a more professional look and is easier for our end users to follow the steps to integrate with us."

ARGOS

Learn how ARGOS improved their multi-language document handling with Archbee.

"Archbee significantly improved our documentation process, especially with the structure of documents and support for OpenAPI files, saving us a lot of time."

Altrata

Learn how Altrata uses Archbee for API documentation and saves plenty of time while not building a documentation platform internally.

"we liked the ability to host multiple domains, SSO support, and have multiple spaces with Archbee"

Navattic

Learn how Navattic scales in a sustainable way as they look to support more customers, more usecases across more industries.

"we're really leaning on Archbee to help empower customers to create demos that fit their usecase"

SourceForge

Learn how SourceForge uses Archbee for a documentation portal platform with fair pricing.

"we’ve been told by many customers that our new documentation section powered by Archbee is very comprehensive and easy for them to read and understand"

Jigx

Learn how jigx uses Archbee's AI search to provide precise answers to their customers. This allows jigx users to receive direct answers even with code samples when creating components and mobile screens and apps.

"Archbee constantly innovates, drives continuous improvements, and listens to their customers"

Continuum Industries

Learn how Continuum Industries is using Archbee in their product with our App Widget for a complex enterprise product

"it's easy to embed the documentation within the product, that I could maintain myself without developer hours"

UNITH

Learn how UNITH saved a lot of human resources to enable their customers to use the API that sits on top of the digital human platform

"Archbee is helping us more than we anticipated from a sales perspective"

Digitail

Learn how Digitail uses Archbee for API documentation for veterinary clinics who need integration.

"our support time has reduced a lot, most simple questions can be answered by the AI assistant and what reaches our team in the end is more relevant and targeted problems"

Torpor Games

Learn how Torpor Games streamlined operations across departments using Archbee

"Integrating Archbee has transformed our documentation processes, enhancing efficiency across all of our departments."

MedShift

Learn how Medshift uses Archbee as a knowledgebase with stating and user friendly interface for their users.

"we have found that although Archbee development began in our department, other departments in our company have found it to be a better alternative to legacy knowledge-base platforms we have used in the past after demonstrating its abilities in meetings"

Kindroid

Learn how Kindroid uses Archbee for in-app user guides for mobile apps.

"the platform has been very easy to use and provides us what we need"

FlashStart

Learn how FlashStart improved documentation quality, enhanced team collaboration, and increased productivity by using Archbee as their docs platform.

"we improved documentation quality, enhanced team collaboration, and increased productivity with Archbee"

Rollstack

Learn how Rollstack uses Archbee for SaaS documentation that does not suck.

"we needed a documentation tool destined for pure SaaS players"

Lemonbase

Learn why Lemonbase switched to Archbee from Notion, after trying GitBook.

"we can provide a more pleasant experience to our service users than conventional documentation platforms"

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