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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Help Viewer

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 16, 2023

In 2020, Apple began the Apple silicon transition, using self-designed, 64-bit ARM-based Apple M1 processors on new Mac computers. Maybe it’s the perfect time to move away from the proprietary world of Apple, and embrace the open source Linux scene.

Help Viewer is a WebKit based HTML viewer for macOS aimed at displaying help files and other documentation.

Help Viewer is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source software.

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