--- title: Dr. Explain Reviews meta\_title: 'Dr. Explain Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 30 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Dr. Explain works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 30 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Dr. Explain Reviews & Product Details Overview - Dr.Explain is developed by a dedicated team with over 20 years of expertise in help authoring tools. - It is designed for technical writers, developers, and product managers who need to create user manuals and online help. - The company is headquartered in Serbia and serves a global customer base across various industries. Key Features - Automatically captures application interfaces or web pages and analyzes all UI elements. - Generates a draft help system with screenshots and ready‑to‑use callouts placed directly on images. - Eliminates manual screenshot taking and annotation through intelligent UI analysis. - Exports to WEB, CHM, PDF, and DOCX formats while preserving structure and formatting. Primary Value - Reduces documentation time from days or weeks to hours by automating the most labor‑intensive part—screenshots and callouts. - Keeps documentation in sync with the actual product interface; easily update projects when the application changes. - Lowers the learning curve for new team members—no manual layout of hundreds of images and callouts required. * * * Seller [Indigo Byte Systems](https://www.g2.com/sellers/indigo-byte-systems) Discussions [Dr. Explain Community](https://www.g2.com/products/dr-explain/discuss) Languages Supported German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Dennis Zhuravlev (a.k.a. Crane) (CTO at ConferenceCast.tv) Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Dr. Explain. ### Business License $290.00 1 User Per Year ### Home License $190.00 1 User With One-Time Purchase [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/dr-explain/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![MadCap Flare](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MadCap Flare") MadCap Flare 4.4/5(491) ](https://www.g2.com/products/madcap-flare/reviews) [ ![ClickHelp](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "ClickHelp") ClickHelp 4.7/5(66) ](https://www.g2.com/products/clickhelp/reviews) [ ![Adobe RoboHelp](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Adobe RoboHelp") Adobe RoboHelp 4/5(38) ](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-robohelp/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/dr-explain/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 30 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Dr. Explain Integrations (3) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") GA Connector ](https://www.g2.com/products/ga-connector/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") ObjectBox ](https://www.g2.com/products/objectbox/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Objectivity/DB ](https://www.g2.com/products/objectivity-db/reviews) Show More ![Fawaz A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Fawaz A.") FA Fawaz A. Business Development Manager ( Brand Licensing ) Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/17/2025 "A Truly Impressive Solution That Delivers as Promised" 5/5 What do you like best about Dr. Explain? This truly is the real solution, just as described as doctor is not just for name sake Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dr. Explain? I have to say, this is truly impressive and performs very well. In fact, rather than finding anything to dislike, I actually feel a bit envious of the developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dr. Explain solving and how is that benefiting you? Dr. Explain is a help authoring tool created to address the challenges of producing, updating, and publishing high-quality software user documentation in a fast and efficient manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![John K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "John K.") JK John K. Project Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2023 "Dr. Explain- Excellent Helpfile Creator" 5/5 What do you like best about Dr. Explain? Dr. Explain is intuitive and easy to use and install. I really appreciate how seamless it was to convert a competitor’s compiled helpfile to a Dr. Explain helpfile (no additional typing or cutting and pasting needed). I also like being able to easily create an online html helpfile with free Tiwri hosting using Dr. Explain. Creating and integrating context sensitive help into Delphi code was simple too. In addition, it was not a problem to switch the license and project to a new computer. In summary I bought Dr. Explain because I need a helpfile compiler that provide online helpfiles with hosting and context sensitive help and it worked extremely well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dr. Explain? The free Tiwri hosting requires monthly reconfirmation and you only get a 2- or 3-day window to do this. I should not really complain since it is free, though. Otherwise I have not had any issues yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dr. Explain solving and how is that benefiting you? Providing a helpfile compiler that creates online helpfiles with hosting and context sensitive help. It allowed me to do this quickly and easily and pleased the product users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") IC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/19/2021 "A Walk Through Review On Dr. Explain" 5/5 What do you like best about Dr. Explain? The thing I like most about Dr. Explain is about the functionality that allows us to create numbered steps/stages on an image explaining a particular function of a software. That is; using Dr. Explain we can capture image (screenshot) of a particular function of the software and then number each step on the screenshot accordingly. This can greatly help a new software user to clearly see the steps/stages of how to use a software and go through it effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dr. Explain? I don't think I dislike anything about Dr. Explain as everything works out fine to me. Particlarly, the layout and design seems to fit perfectly well to a technical writer who might be writing a user guide for a software because it have everything you might need to write a good software user guide document. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Dr. Explain: I highly recommend you to use Dr. Explain to write your software user guide because of its graphics display. Particularly, the numbered steps on the screen capture of a particular feature of your software system because it gives a good and clear layout and display of different steps/stages of a software feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dr. Explain solving and how is that benefiting you? I am using Dr. Explain to write software user manuals. Nowadays Software and digital products are now becomming very important part of our digital world and their usage has increase as well, so tools such as Dr. Explain can help us software and digital product developers to write good user guides for our products to be used by our clients and customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rob M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rob M.") RM Rob M. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/28/2020 "Dr Explain makes it easy" 5/5 What do you like best about Dr. Explain? We had a CHM file from an obsolete system, and Dr Explain was the best app we could find to import that and turn it into an editable format. Copying and pasting content from various other sources is easy, so we can publish an article in our internal newsletter, and also include the same content in our Help file without having to muck about with a lot of reformatting. And the most recent version 6 has really made screen capture a breeze, the easiest I've seen in any product. That feature alone makes Dr Explain worthwhile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dr. Explain? The latest free version really trashes the images with watermarks, making them almost unreadable. I use Context IDs to link the pages in the CHM to specific windows and menus in the app, and it took a while to find out how to turn these on in Dr Explain. That wasn't very intuitive, and the online information I found about it didn't seem to be up to date with the latest release. Once they were turned on it was fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Dr. Explain: If you're starting from scratch it's a no-brainer, Dr Explain will work well. If you're converting from another vendor you just need to check out what import/export options are available between the two systems to get your project across. But the trial version should be enough to know how that's going to work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dr. Explain solving and how is that benefiting you? We have a database system used by just a few dozen people but scattered across multiple countries and languages. We need a cost-effective way to provide those users with a range of information about the app: what's new, reference material, how-to guides, and technical information. It needs to be really easy to read, simple to find stuff, and interesting to look at and read. All aimed at people with a wide range of computer proficiency. Dr Explain makes it very easy to pull all this different stuff together, make it look nice and consistent, structure it in a meaningful way, and add lots of screenshots and cross links. It's also really beneficial to be able to output the content in both CHM and PDF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic CK Christopher K. Technical Writer /M.A. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/27/2019 "Ideal for Software documentation and chm..." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Dr. Explain? Well implementend node-based authoring. HTML 5 and chm-support. WHYSIG for chm, pdf, hmtl. Good callout designer with many options, though sometimes complicated. You can do your own callout sets, like choosing colours and using own icons, but it takes some practise. Easy to learn, easier to master than Word. Good, useable chm output which is real benefit seldom seen. Stable, good support. Generally, good and reduced feauture set, compared to e.g.Word or Framemaker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dr. Explain? More callout sets included would help. A conservative callout set would be great (decent numbers in circles). PDF output is a bit simple, RTF-only Word import lacks formatting options, a bit. Dr. Explain could advance here. Please implement .docx- export! I would very much like templates for tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Dr. Explain: Ideal for software documentation and chm-Files, especially if you "write and develop" at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dr. Explain solving and how is that benefiting you? Writing a manual / software documenation for a GAMP-5 compliant industry tracking software. Which is a feat the software must allow for :-). Writing / updating manuals for HMIs of extruders and other industrial machinery in GMP sectors (pharmaceutical machinery). Dr. Explain works well here, with the useful callout designer with several nice-looking options provided. Results look professional, especially on chm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Ryan G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ryan G.") RG Ryan G. Support Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/5/2019 "Excellent option for an affordable, easy to use documentation tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Dr. Explain? One feature I like most is the ability to save in multiple formats such as HTML and PDF and have it be easy to use. I didn't want to spend a lot of time learning a new piece of software so fortunately Dr Explain is intuitive enough for me to get started with little need to look at or review documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dr. Explain? I'm not sure I've fully investigated the customization options to give our documentation its own look and feel. Perhaps this could be easier or perhaps I'm not looking for the instructions on howto do this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Dr. Explain: It's a really good option for affordable documentation software for a small business like ours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dr. Explain solving and how is that benefiting you? Our goal was to overhaul our documentation on something more powerful and effective than MS Word and we were able to achieve that. In particular, we wanted to get HTML-based documentation that we could manage and control on our own, and we're able to do that in a much easier fashion with Dr Explain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic FN Flavio N. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/10/2018 "We found the solution to the problem" 5/5 What do you like best about Dr. Explain? The easy to use and WYSIWYG interface of the platform The output format covers all what we need Automatical creation of TOC Automatic creation of "search" Screen capture Look and feel of the target document totally configurable ... and much more..... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dr. Explain? Translation are not easy to handle(but soon they will be), because in the European market there is the need to translate portals at least in 6 languages, but you might arrrive up to 27. This is, from my point of view, the unique point I dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dr. Explain solving and how is that benefiting you? We needed to create help on line for portals and Client software under .NET environment, and we solved the problem usign a single software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/9/2019 "Excellent documentation creation software" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Dr. Explain? Simplicity, versatility, and power are the major strengths of the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dr. Explain? Some shortcomings related to the customization of the layout (link color, ...) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dr. Explain solving and how is that benefiting you? We can now write personalized user manuals for our clients. This saves us some trips and/or phone troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: OrganicAI Translated PS Philippe S. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/12/2018 "This was like the "Eureka" moment" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Dr. Explain? The screen capture feature that do all the job for me (automatic capture and analysis of the application controls, insertion into the doc, insertion of the annotations, auto TOC,...). I love it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dr. Explain? The collaboration feature that needs you to have Dr Explain installed on your workstation to use it. I would praise a full web application to generate help the same way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Dr. Explain: Really worth a try! Simple and easy (and I am not a tech guy)! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dr. Explain solving and how is that benefiting you? I work at a medium non profit organization of the social sector. My main job is financial but I was invited to develop an integrated software application to help us manager more effectively our grants and our working force. When the development was finished, I needed to provide our users with documentation and help. I started taking screenshots of the application, copying and pasting them into a word document, writing the contents of the help, rearranging the TOC,... All this manually! The final help product was delivered on PDF format and send to our users by email. As the application was continuously updated, I needed to start all the process each month, over and over again. Finally, this started to keep away from my financial job. I discovered Dr Explain two years ago and I can tell this was like the "Eureka" moment (you know,Einstein...). No more screenshots, no more copy-paste, no more word document to rearrange, no more manual email to send. Updating the documentation is now a breeze. Especially the screen capture feature that do all the job for you (automatic capture and analysis of the application controls, insertion into the doc). I love it! I decided to use the publishing feature of Dr Explain instead of sending emails.... I had I have now returned to my financial job, but I still maintain the help docs myself with the help of Dr Explain. So, thank you guys for your services ! Phil Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Jérôme K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jérôme K.") JK Jérôme K. Conseiller en entreprise Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/12/2018 "Dr. Explain: an excellent tool + support!" 5/5 What do you like best about Dr. Explain? I use Dr. Explain for quality system documentation. The tool is simple to use and offers a host of very useful features. My favorite: the ability to generate a website and publish it on tiwri. Support: excellent as well: competent, fast, and pleasant. Bravo! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dr. Explain? rien ! le logiciel est vraiment utile Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dr. Explain solving and how is that benefiting you? Quality system documentation, process documentation, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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