Fonto Editor vs Heretto

Fonto Editor is an online XML editor for people without XML or structured-content authoring experience. It validates edits in real time against the active schema, including DITA, JATS, S1000D, or custom schemas. Authors can add comments and metadata, restructure content by dragging and dropping, copy and paste, and track changes. Version control, translation support, review workflows, and previews for HTML, PDF, e-books, learning platforms, magazines, and manuals are listed. Fonto says it supports any XML schema, including BITS, DocBook, NISO STS, TEI, and bespoke schemas. Its open architecture connects with content-management, digital-asset, and repository systems; listed integrations include Alfresco, OneDrive, SharePoint, Adobe EM, Google Drive, OpenText, SDL Tridion Docs, MarkLogic, and FileNet. It does not store content or provide workflow, so integration with a CMS, workflow system, or repository is required. Platforms are API, self-hosted, and web. Pricing is on request, with an annual fee based on named and/or concurrent users.

Heretto is a DITA-based platform for enterprises to create, manage, publish, and personalize documentation. Its CCMS combines authoring, version control, branching, workflow management, publishing, and translation management; multiple authors can work in the same file at once without file locking. Governance features include content history, customizable workflows and roles, taxonomy, and metadata. Heretto Deploy distributes centrally stored content through an API for headless publishing. Portal provides a branded self-service site with personalization and granular permissions. Heretto describes CCMS as a SOC 2 Type II certified cloud platform. The web application is compatible with macOS, Windows, and Linux, with Chrome and Firefox officially supported. Heretto lists Deploy, CCMS, and Portal plans, with pricing on request. Portal includes one production and one non-production site, with additional sites available. Heretto says its clients include organizations in high-technology software, manufacturing, insurance, and medical devices. The platform is not designed or optimized for mobile devices or tablets and is not designed for offline use.