Self-hosted, so your documents stay with you
Install ManualWorks on your own servers or in your own cloud account. Your documents never leave your environment, and your team works in a simple web UI.
A structured editor built for large manuals
Edit by chapter and paragraph in a clear hierarchy. Even thousands of pages stay organized and consistent.
One source, every format
Publish web help, PDF, HTML, and EPUB from a single source. No more maintaining a separate copy for each format.
AI that works within your permissions
Connect AI tools such as Claude Code and Codex through MCP to read and edit your docs. They act only within document permissions, and every edit is recorded. Your readers get a chatbot that answers only from your docs, using the AI model you choose.
ManualWorks is not a note-taking tool.
It is built for manuals that are maintained, reviewed, and published.
0.1A web-based, self-hosted documentation platform
Install ManualWorks on your own servers and keep every document and every edit in-house. It even runs on internal networks with no internet access.
Your team writes together within a clear permission system. You can set permissions separately for administration, templates and themes, writing, and translation, and control access to resources such as files, images, templates, and glossaries.
Everyone always works on the latest version of every document, so there are no duplicate copies, lost files, or conflicting versions.
0.2Choose your own AI model
Connect external AI providers such as Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and Grok, or an Ollama server running in your own network. You decide which AI models to use.
ManualWorks offers a chatbot, AI writing, and spelling and grammar checks. It builds a vector store from your documents so the chatbot answers from your own docs.
0.3Documents that work with AI tools
Connect AI tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI through MCP to read and edit your documents.
AI tools act only within the user's document permissions, and every edit is recorded in the history so you can roll it back. MCP access does not count toward licensed users.
0.4Smooth communication across the team
Proofreading notes in the editor, progress tracking, and tasks keep collaboration moving.
The ManualWorks web viewer supports comments, change requests, and reader feedback. You can also comment on proofreading notes, to-dos, review requests, and change requests, so everyone stays on the same page.
Watch a document to get an email when it changes. Everyone watching the document sees what changed.
0.5Write by paragraph and chapter
ManualWorks structures documents by chapter and lets you edit them paragraph by paragraph.
It offers many paragraph types, including lists, code, notes, images, and tables.
In the editor you can freely move, delete, copy, and paste paragraphs, and you can copy chapters or move them to another document.
0.6Image paragraphs and the visual editor
Paste an image from the clipboard with Ctrl + V.
The built-in visual editor lets you edit the images in your documents. Add text and callouts, and crop images to the pixel.
You can also draw simple flowcharts and design guides in the visual editor.
0.7Consistent formatting with rich style options
Everyone works with the styles defined in the theme, so your documents stay consistent.
Themes offer rich style options: fonts, line height, word and letter spacing, paragraph spacing, indentation, colors, and background colors.
You also get flexible numbering options for parts, chapters, and headings (including figure and table captions).
0.8Complete edit history
In one history view, review and compare the history of chapters and paragraphs as well as the whole book.
Every edit is recorded, so you can restore any point in time.
0.9Single source, multichannel publishing
Publish one document as many outputs: web viewer, PDF, EPUB, and HTML.
A web page editor lets you build a unified help portal like the ManualWorks help site.
0.10Automation and reuse
ManualWorks builds key parts of your documents for you, such as tables of contents for headings, figures, tables, and code, and indexes.
It also generates the title page and half-title page of your PDF files.
Reuse content by chapter, section, or paragraph across documents. Change the source once, and every document that references it is updated.
0.11Translation editor with machine translation
Connect Google Translate, Papago, or DeepL through their APIs.
In the translation editor, translate and edit ManualWorks documents by sentence, paragraph, or chapter.
0.12Easy software updates
Update to the latest version of ManualWorks in a few steps.
Release notes show what's new and what's fixed in each version.
From government agencies to finance, manufacturing, and IT,
organizations in Korea run their documentation on ManualWorks.
Start with your team and grow as you need.
Software Guides: Now AI Creates the Captures and Callouts Too
Starting with ManualWorks 6.0.27, AI tools can create the screen captures and callouts of a software guide through MCP. Here is how it works, with examples.
Your Documents Decide Your Chatbot's Answer Quality
We analyzed chatbot logs from August and September and found that about 77% of the causes of poor answers were in the documents. Here is our semi-automated process for fixing documents with chatbot logs.
Hand Your Tasks to AI: Read, Process, and Answer Them with MCP
Connect the ManualWorks MCP, and you can look up tasks, write answers, create new tasks, set relations, and change statuses while chatting with AI.
Writing and Exploring Documents with MCP
ManualWorks works with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI through MCP (Model Context Protocol). AI reads the document structure directly, searches, proofreads, and adds content where you want it. Here are several examples of working right inside your documents without copying and pasting.
Setting Up Web Crawlers for AI
Have you ever given ChatGPT or Gemini the address of a document made with ManualWorks, only to hear "I found the page but couldn't read its content"? Then it's time to check your web crawler settings.
Send Your Documents as Email: Introducing Campaigns
Campaigns turn chapters written in ManualWorks into emails and send them to the recipients you choose on a schedule. Available from ManualWorks 6.0.19 in the Tool > Campaign menu.