HelpSmith

A complete help creation tool, HelpSmith is ideal for creating simple CHM HTML help files, MS Word documents, Adobe PDF documents, printed manuals, and more. It has a responsive layout that works well on both desktop and mobile devices. Its theme templates help you customize the look and feel of your help files.

What else? HelpSmith offers pre-built design themes, a built-in screenshot tool, a word processor, and easy file import options. The tool also supports Facebook and Disqus comments.

Compared to other market-leading help documentation software, HelpSmith lacks advanced features and capabilities. If you are looking for a high-level development tool, HelpSmith may not meet your requirements.

Key features

  • Theme templates – create and quickly customize content with theme templates
  • Responsive – works well on mobile and desktop
  • Word processor – choose your favorite styles and run spell check in different languages
  • Customizable – easily customize headers, footers, and other elements of your help documents.

Why use HelpSmith?

  • Allows you to take and crop screenshots and add clickable areas to the image
  • The tool comes with several publishing options that help you create HTML, web, PDF, Word, and eBook output.
  • Simplifies document design with pre-built themes
  • Helps you extract content from a single source and publish it in the format of your choice.