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Ardoq vs ReadMe.io: What are the differences?

Developers describe Ardoq as "SaaS Platform focusing on automating and visualizing your documentation". Ardoq's out of the box visualizations are automatically created in real-time. All changes and relationships are visualized simultaneously and are context sensitive. With Ardoq, you can see your documentation in the perspectives that best suit your needs. On the other hand, ReadMe.io is detailed as "Beautiful documentation made easy". Collaborative Developer Hubs.

Ardoq and ReadMe.io can be primarily classified as "Documentation as a Service &" tools.

Some of the features offered by Ardoq are:

  • Navigate Systems and Dependencies Through Interactive and Customizable Visualisations.
  • Perform Consequence Analysis Through Visualisations.
  • Extensive REST-api for Customisation and Automation.

On the other hand, ReadMe.io provides the following key features:

  • Collaboration - Crowdsource your docs! Users can keep docs current by suggesting changes.
  • API Explorer - Let users play with your API right inside the documentation.
  • GitHub Sync - Keep auto-generated reference docs synced with your actual code.
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Pros of Ardoq
Pros of ReadMe.io
  • 2
    Swagger API-visualization
  • 1
    Easy to use and auto generated views
  • 1
    Supports TOGAF ArchiMate 3.0
  • 18
    Great UI
  • 15
    Easy
  • 10
    Customizable
  • 10
    Cute mascot
  • 8
    Looks great and is fun to use
  • 5
    It's friggin awesome
  • 3
    Make sample API calls inside the docs

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Cons of Ardoq
Cons of ReadMe.io
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    • 4
      Support is awful
    • 3
      No backup and restore capability
    • 2
      Important parts of the CSS are locked
    • 2
      Document structure is severely restricted
    • 2
      Full of bugs
    • 2
      No notifications of edits by other users
    • 1
      Supports only two documents plus a blog
    • 1
      Does not support pre-request scripts
    • 1
      Random pages display content of other pages instead
    • 1
      Review and comment functionality is hard to work with
    • 1
      Navigation in user-facing copy is spotty
    • 1
      All admins have full editing rights

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    What is Ardoq?

    Ardoq's out of the box visualizations are automatically created in real-time. All changes and relationships are visualized simultaneously and are context sensitive. With Ardoq, you can see your documentation in the perspectives that best suit your needs.

    What is ReadMe.io?

    It is an easy-to-use tool to help you build out documentation! Each documentation site that you publish is a project where there is space for documentation, interactive API reference guides, a changelog, and much more.

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