🆚 GitBook vs. mdBook
GitBook
mdBookType
About
GitBook is a cloud-based documentation platform for creating and publishing product documentation, API references, and knowledge bases.
It provides a collaborative editor with 
Markdown and rich formatting, structured navigation and versioning, AI-powered features such as GitBook Agent and embedded AI assistants for writing help and query answering, automatic generation of llms.txt for large language models, and integrations with 
GitHub, 
GitLab and other tools.
mdBook is a 
Rust-based command-line tool that compiles Markdown files into navigable and searchable online books for documentation, tutorials, and technical guides.
It provides built-in search, color syntax highlighting via 
Highlight.js, multilingual books, theme customization, preprocessors and renderer plugins, automatic table of contents generation, and automated testing of Rust code samples.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
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Popularity by domain category
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,531,690 websites. However, data for mdBook is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.