After several years of building documentation tooling, we’ve made the difficult decision to shut Doctave down. The service will stop operating on September 14th, 2026.
We have informed all our customers individually, but are also now posting a public message here.
On September 14th,
- Hosted documentation sites will stop being served
- The Doctave dashboard will no longer be available
- Builds and deploys will stop running
How this impacts you
Your content is yours, and it’s already in your repository. Doctave was built on docs-as-code precisely so that your Markdown, OpenAPI specs, and configuration live in Git rather than in our database. Nothing needs to be exported from us to keep writing.
You own your docs.
Where can I move my docs?
We have created an open source static site generator, Docapella, that is mostly compatible with existing Doctave projects. The main change you need to make is renaming doctave.yaml to docapella.yaml.
Features that require a server, such as analytics, are not supported, but the content model and general look and feel are the same.
Thank you
To everyone who wrote documentation with Doctave, sent us feedback, filed bugs, or took a chance on a small team building documentation tooling: thank you. We learned an enormous amount from you, and it genuinely mattered to us.
If you have questions about the shutdown or need help planning a migration, get in touch at nik@doctave.com. I’ll answer every email I can before we wind things down.
- Nik & Anton
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