Doxygen vs Miredot
Doxygen
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| Figure | Doxygen | Miredot |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $15/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · API Documentation Tools | 8.0 (#9) | 8.0 (#12) |
| Output formats | Doxygen generates HTML, PDF via LaTeX, Word via RTF and XML documentation. | The reference manual says Miredot can generate HTML and DOCX documentation; the pricing feature table also lists RAML output. |
| Purpose | Doxygen is a documentation generator that creates documentation from source-code comments and parses classes, functions and variables. | Miredot generates REST API documentation from existing Java source code. |
| Support | Users are directed to Stack Overflow and the doxygen users mailing list, while commercial feature or bug-fix support has limited capacity. | The pricing feature table lists next-business-day support for Pro/Pro+; the page also lists [email protected] for the open-source offer. |
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In their own words
Doxygen
Doxygen is a free documentation generator that turns source-code comments into reference material, parsing items such as classes, functions and variables. It supports C/C++, Lex, Java, Python, VHDL, PHP IDL, C#, Fortran, Objective-C 2.0 and some D sources. Output can be generated as HTML, PDF through LaTeX, Word through RTF or structured XML for external tools. Graphviz’s dot tool can add include-dependency, collaboration, call, directory-structure and class-hierarchy diagrams. Doxywizard provides a graphical interface for editing settings and running the generator on Windows, Linux and macOS; Doxygen also works on many Unix flavors. It supports HTML Help, docsets, Qt-Help and Eclipse Help, with more than 100 configurable options. The tool runs without registration and does not collect personal or usage data. It is self-hosted and licensed under the GNU General Public License, without express or implied warranty. Help is listed through Stack Overflow and the doxygen users mailing list; commercial feature and bug-fix support has limited capacity.