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Dash vs DevDocs: What are the differences?

Developers describe Dash as "Gives your Mac instant offline access to 150+ API documentation sets". Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 150+ APIs. You can even generate your own docsets or request docsets to be included. On the other hand, DevDocs is detailed as "Open source API documentation browser with instant fuzzy search, offline mode, keyboard shortcuts, and more". DevDocs is an API documentation browser that combines multiple docs in a single web UI with instant fuzzy search, offline mode, keyboard shortcuts, and more.

Dash and DevDocs belong to "API Documentation Browser" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Dash are:

  • 150+ offline docsets
  • Instant, fuzzy search
  • Great integration with other apps

On the other hand, DevDocs provides the following key features:

  • 80+ offline docs
  • Free and open source
  • Instant fuzzy search

DevDocs is an open source tool with 20.9K GitHub stars and 1.36K GitHub forks. Here's a link to DevDocs's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Dash
Pros of DevDocs
  • 17
    Dozens of API docs and Cheat-Sheets
  • 12
    Great for offline use
  • 8
    Works with Alfred
  • 8
    Excellent documentation
  • 8
    Quick API search
  • 5
    Fast
  • 3
    Good integration with Xcode and AppCode
  • 2
    Great for mobile dev work
  • 3
    Works with Alfred
  • 1
    Easy Setup
  • 1
    Open source

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What is Dash?

Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 150+ APIs. You can even generate your own docsets or request docsets to be included.

What is DevDocs?

DevDocs is an API documentation browser that combines multiple docs in a single web UI with instant fuzzy search, offline mode, keyboard shortcuts, and more.

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