jazzy vs appledoc

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jazzy		appledoc
	Project
4	Mentions	-
7,317	Stars	4,191
0.1%	Growth	-
7.2	Activity	0.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
Ruby	Language	Objective-C
MIT License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

jazzy

Posts with mentions or reviews of jazzy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-04.

What’s the best way to document code?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 12 Mar 2022
How can I get access to the Definition Source Code (like Jump to Definition) outside Xcode
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 3 Mar 2022

You can put a link in your method/function documentation using markdown so when you click to see the info you can click the link and open a web page or where your source definition is. And you can create that info with a framework/library named jazzy. https://github.com/realm/jazzy
Swift: Deconstruct SPF: Documentation
3 projects | dev.to | 4 Jun 2021

Jazzy
Swift classes diagram
3 projects | /r/swift | 13 May 2021

There is no native functionality in Xcode for that. In the past I used Doxygen on Objective-C, but it does not support Swift. Looking at Jazzy, it does not seem to have that feature, but maybe it's hidden in some option.

appledoc

Posts with mentions or reviews of appledoc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning appledoc yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing jazzy and appledoc you can also consider the following projects:

swift-doc - A documentation generator for Swift projects

FBSimulatorControl - idb is a flexible command line interface for automating iOS simulators and devices

swiftdoc-parser

Realm Browser - DEPRECATED - Realm Browser for Mac OS X has been replaced by realm-studio which is cross platform.

SourceDocs - Generate Markdown documentation from source code

fastlane-plugin-appicon - Generate required icon sizes and iconset from a master application icon.

SwiftGen - The Swift code generator for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs!

infer - A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

XcodeGen - A Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project

SwiftCompilationPerformanceReporter - Generate automated reports for slow Swift compilation paths in specific targets

swift-auto-diagram - A Ruby script that scans all swift code from the specified folders and files and automatically generates an entity diagram (similar to a class diagram) which can be viewed in a browser.

XcodesApp - The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode - with a mouse click.