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Help & Manual vs. Author-It

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricHelp & Manual

by EC Software

Author-It

by Author-It Software Corporation

Overall rating4.83.9
Review count2245
Ease of use8.97.8
Ease of setup9.26.9
Quality of support9.68.6
Meets requirements9.58.5
NPS9026.666667
Small Business86.4%26.7%
Mid-Market4.5%51.1%
Enterprise9.1%22.2%
Total page views64414
Total LLM citations184800

Help & Manual

Help+Manual is the most popular authoring tool for writing and publishing help and technical documentation in multiple formats. While it is as easy to use like Word, Help+Manual gives you the full power of a true WYSIWYG XML editor. You can focus your energy on writing and immediately get productive! This is combined with powerful features for editing documentation files, including full support for multimedia and complex modular projects.

Pros

    Author-It

    Create. Collaborate. Manage. Reuse. Translate. Publish. All on one platform. Author-it is a true and complete Component Content Management System (CCMS) for the creation, management, localization, and publishing of a wide variety of information products. Single sourcing is the core of Author-it, and with loads of functionality like multi-channel publishing, variant management, review and approval workflows, and authoring assistance, we offer a collaborative solution capable of dealing with the needs of any organization, from SMBs to Enterprise.

    Pros