G2 Vendor Directory
45

Reviews

3.9

Star rating

#6

Rank in Help Authoring Tool (HAT)

Pros and cons

Pros

    Cons

    • Difficult Setup
    • Not Intuitive

    Traffic & LLM citations

    Monthly G2.com page views and citations by AI answer engines for Author-It.

    Page views and citations · Author-It

    Source: G2 review data

    Winning from

    Based on reviewers who said they switched from another product.

    Losing to

    Based on reviewers of other products who said they switched from Author-It.

    Key stats

    +40.0%

    27

    Mid-Market

    3

    Adoption by company size

    SegmentShare of reviews
    Small Business26.7%
    Mid-Market51.1%
    Enterprise22.2%

    Quarterly history

    QuarterReviewsStar rating
    2025 Q310.0
    2026 Q254.5
    2026 Q373.6

    Satisfaction ratings

    Ease of Use7.8
    Ease of Setup6.9
    Quality of Support8.6
    Meets Requirements8.5

    What reviewers say

    Sharing Embedded Content, Which Saves Hours of Rework

    4.5

    “Sharing embedded content saves me hours, especially when the UI changes.”

    Principal User Assistance Consultant (although I am not a consultant)

    Fantastic Shared Content—One Edit Applied Across Hundreds of Documents

    5.0

    “The ability to share common content is fantastic. Making an edit one time in one place and have it applied to a hundred or more documents is an amazing capability.”

    Senior Manager, User Assistance

    Powerful Content Reuse with Author-it—and Outstanding Long-Term Support

    4.5

    “Author-it makes it super easy to leverage our large collection of existing content when creating new content. We can use mature, thoroughly vetted content in new publications to reduce time spent on reviews. The modular nature of the content makes it easy to reuse. Support has be”

    Senior Technical Writer / Editor