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Start from a blank page, rough notes, a PDF, or HelpDocs AI . Draft, refine, organize, and publish articles in an editor built for documentation, not buried inside a support suite.

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Drop, draft, or dive in.

Import what you’ve already written, let HelpDocs AI shape the first version, or start fresh with a clean page. You can also use one of our options outside the platform.

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Drop in a .docx, .pdf, .md, .html, .rtf, .odt, or .txt and we'll turn it into a clean work-ready article.

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A flexible block editor built just for technical writers.

Write articles with structure, media, reusable elements, and formatting that keeps documentation easy to scan and maintain.

Block by block.

Create, transform, and reorder content with our seamless block editor. Create headings, callouts, lists, tables, media, code, embeds, HTML, and more.

Block by block.

Clip it.

Save time by creating Clips, reusable content that's easy to drop in. Insert dynamic versions to update everywhere.

Clip it.

Rich embeddables.

Paste in links and watch them transform into videos and interactive walkthroughs.

Rich embeddables.

Back it up.

Saved over a version but didn't mean to? Don't fret, we got you. Use our powerful versioning system, including comparison analysis.

Back it up.

Anti-collision built-in.

Avoid saving over your teammate's work. Our smart detection will let you know if someone else is on the article, and whether they're currently editing.

Workflow

Power your entire documentation workflow.

From first draft to continuous improvement, HelpDocs keeps every step moving, without the busywork.

Start fast, from anywhere.

Step 1 · Draft

Start fast, from anywhere.

Kick off from HelpDocs AI, an imported file, help.new, or a blank page. Then shape it with blocks, media, and reusable Clips.

Export as PDF or Word document

Turn any article into a polished PDF or .docx in a click, ideal for offline sharing, sign-off, and archiving.

Stale status

Automatically flag articles that haven't been touched in a while, so nothing drifts out of date without you noticing.

Save time with keyword shortcuts

Type a shortcut to drop in reusable snippets, links, and boilerplate instantly, without ever leaving the keyboard.

BUILD ANYTHING

Build anything with complete flexibility.

Customize every aspect of your knowledge base to match your brand and workflow. From design to functionality, you have full control.

Blazing-fast accessible templates

Blazing-fast accessible templates

Engineered for SEO, accessibility, and speed. Our hand-crafted templates are designed to convert visitors into self-serve users.

No-code to full-code control

No-code to full-code control

Simple styling or complete custom builds with our industry-standard HTML templating with Handlebars.

Design before publish with .dev

Design before publish with .dev

Our staging environment feature lets your developers work on your template in the background. And when you're ready, promote it live.

Dark mode built-in

Dark mode built-in

On our V5 templates, dark mode is built in by standard, preventing tired late night viewing.

Multilingual

Speak every customer's language.

Publish your knowledge base in 100+ languages with machine or manual translations. One source of truth, localized for every reader, without rebuilding a single article.

Croatian Italian Russian Zulu Polish Portuguese Shona Slovak Chinese (Simplified) Korean Welsh Turkish Hawaiian Dutch Ukrainian Burmese Hebrew Armenian Yoruba Samoan Cebuano Kurdish Yiddish Xhosa Latvian Malagasy Sinhala Arabic Marathi Bulgarian Frisian Haitian Creole Albanian Azerbaijani Swahili Malay Hindi Tajik Norwegian Luxembourgish Macedonian Georgian Punjabi Catalan Nepali Chinese (Traditional) Latin Uzbek Serbian Somali Finnish Vietnamese Estonian Thai Belarusian Sindhi Romanian Lithuanian Mongolian Afrikaans Bosnian Urdu Khmer Greek Galician Japanese Telugu Persian Kyrgyz Swedish Esperanto Lao Tagalog Icelandic Czech English Danish Amharic Kannada Gujarati Kazakh Sundanese Bengali German Basque Malayalam Sesotho Maori Hungarian Scots Gaelic Igbo Pashto Hausa Corsican French Slovenian Javanese Irish Tamil Maltese Spanish Hmong Indonesian Chichewa Croatian Italian Russian Zulu Polish Portuguese Shona Slovak Chinese (Simplified) Korean Welsh Turkish Hawaiian Dutch Ukrainian Burmese Hebrew Armenian Yoruba Samoan Cebuano Kurdish Yiddish Xhosa Latvian Malagasy Sinhala Arabic Marathi Bulgarian Frisian Haitian Creole Albanian Azerbaijani Swahili Malay Hindi Tajik Norwegian Luxembourgish Macedonian Georgian Punjabi Catalan Nepali Chinese (Traditional) Latin Uzbek Serbian Somali Finnish Vietnamese Estonian Thai Belarusian Sindhi Romanian Lithuanian Mongolian Afrikaans Bosnian Urdu Khmer Greek Galician Japanese Telugu Persian Kyrgyz Swedish Esperanto Lao Tagalog Icelandic Czech English Danish Amharic Kannada Gujarati Kazakh Sundanese Bengali German Basque Malayalam Sesotho Maori Hungarian Scots Gaelic Igbo Pashto Hausa Corsican French Slovenian Javanese Irish Tamil Maltese Spanish Hmong Indonesian Chichewa
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The world is a click away.

With our machine translations, you can translate your articles in a matter of seconds.

Translate in seconds

Translate in seconds

Turn any article into a new language with a single click. No copy-paste, no waiting.

100+ languages

100+ languages

Reach readers across the globe with support for over a hundred languages out of the box.

Formatting preserved

Formatting preserved

Blocks, media, callouts, and links stay perfectly intact. Translations never break your layout.

Stay on top of translations

Stay on top of translations

Handy tools keep every language in sync. Filter by translation status, spot gaps with badges, and update in bulk.

With you every step of the way.

From your first article to a knowledge base that gives you detailed reports, HelpDocs supports every stage of your documentation journey.

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