HelpKit turns the Notion pages you've written into a help centre. Ellie Docs writes the pages for you from your code and screenshots of your app, then keeps them accurate every time you merge. Here's an honest look at both.
HelpKit publishes the Notion pages you write. Ellie Docs writes them from your code, then keeps them accurate when you merge.
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your product ships faster than anyone writes about it, you'd rather review drafts than start from a blank Notion page, or you want a changelog and API reference from the same repo.
your team already writes everything in Notion and likes it that way, your docs aren't about a software product with a codebase, or you need the cheapest custom-domain site for a couple of dozen hand-written articles: HelpKit Starter is $15 a month billed annually.
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HelpKit publishes what you write in Notion, with a custom domain on every plan. The writing is still yours. Ellie Docs reads your repo, runs your app in a sandbox and drafts the whole help centre, with screenshots of your real logged-in screens. Your job becomes review, not authorship.
With HelpKit, an article stays as it was until someone edits the Notion page; its Professional plan syncs those edits automatically. Ellie Docs checks every merged PR against your published articles, flags the ones that are now wrong along with the code that changed, and drafts the fix. When the UI changes, it re-captures the screenshots.
HelpKit's AI chatbot is a $49 a month add-on to any plan, and its MCP server comes with that add-on. Ellie Docs includes Ask AI on every plan, including Free, answering only from your published docs, plus ⌘K search.
HelpKit is a help centre. Ellie Docs also drafts your changelog from merged PRs, holds back anything unreleased, and on Growth publishes an API reference, even if you've never written an OpenAPI spec.
Like for like: a help centre on your own domain, no vendor badge, with AI answers. Billed annually.
Your own domain, no badge, 500 AI answers a month, updates on every merged PR, changelog with in-app widget, unlimited editors.
$31 for Business, the plan that removes the "Powered by" badge (100 articles, 3 seats), plus $49 for the AI chatbot. You write the articles in Notion.
Ellie Docs also has a free plan: a full first draft of your help centre, live on yourname.elliedocs.com.
Point Ellie Docs at your published HelpKit help centre during setup. Every article comes across as a draft, next to the ones Ellie drafts from your code, so nothing you've already written is lost.
Not directly. Ellie Docs has its own editor, plus a chat that drafts changes for your review. If Notion is where your team wants to write, HelpKit is the better fit.
It's built for software products. Drafting from code and flagging stale articles both need a GitHub repo. Without one, a Notion-based tool like HelpKit will suit you better.
No. Ask AI is on every Ellie Docs plan, from 50 answers a month on Free to 10,000 on Scale. On HelpKit the AI chatbot is a $49 a month add-on.
Connect a repo and read the first draft of your help centre. Free plan, no card.
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