Dr.Explain
Help authoring tool to create user manuals & user guides
Dr.Explain is a help authoring tool for creating user manuals, online help, CHM help files, PDF guides and DOCX documentation. It automates screenshot annotation, provides a rich text editor with AI assistant, supports multi-format export from a single project, and offers collaboration features via an optional local server. Licensed per user (one-year subscription or perpetual), with a no‑time‑limit free mode that adds watermarks to images.
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