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HelpSmith Pricing Overview

HelpSmith at a glance

HelpSmith Standard Edition - $199 USD
HelpSmith Professional Edition - $299 USD
HelpSmith Ultimate Edition - $399 USD

HelpSmith has 3 pricing editions, from $199 to $399. A free trial of HelpSmith is also available. Look at different pricing editions below and see what edition and features meet your budget and needs.
NamePriceFeatures
HelpSmith Standard Edition
$199.001 Seats With One-Time Purchase
HelpSmith Standard includes basic features needed to create help files and manuals.
  • Create help files and documents in multiple formats: CHM help, Web Help, Printed Manual, PDF, MS Word, ePub eBook, Markdown
  • Banner free output formats
  • Easy import from: CHM, DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTML, HHP, TXT, Markdown (the ability to split imported MS Word files into topics).
  • Editable templates to customize appearance of topics
  • Visual word-processor with dynamic styles
HelpSmith Professional Edition
$299.001 Seats With One-Time Purchase
HelpSmith Professional includes all the features of HelpSmith Standard plus the following features.
  • Full-featured screenshot tool
  • Various Annotations for Screenshots
  • Clickable Hotspots on an Image
  • Automatic Topic Generation for Dialogs
HelpSmith Ultimate Edition
$399.001 Seats With One-Time Purchase
HelpSmith Ultimate includes all the features of HelpSmith Professional plus the following features.
  • Save project as a collection of XML files
  • Built-in XML Source Topic Editor
  • Compatibility with version control systems (e.g. Git, SVN, etc.)
  • Compatibility with external translation tools

HelpSmith pricing & plans

Free Trial is available
Pricing information for HelpSmith is supplied by the software provider or retrieved from publicly accessible pricing materials. Final cost negotiations to purchase HelpSmith must be conducted with the seller.

Volume discounts available

Pricing information was last updated on October 09, 2024

HelpSmith Alternatives Pricing

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MadCap Flare
Subscription
$2,333.00Per Year
Includes Maintenance and Support
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  • Unlimited Email and Phone Support
  • Free Web-based MadCap Flare Introductory Training
  • Free Licenses of MadCap Capture and MadCap Mimic for Rich Multimedia
Dr. Explain
Advanced License
350USD
  • Allows create online manuals and help files
  • Allows create PDF documents
Help & Manual
Server Edition
$1099
Floating server license for one user at a time. The total number of users is unlimited. Server licenses are great for small to medium authoring teams.

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