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    MadCap Flare

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AMadCap Software, headquartered in La Jolla, offers MadCap Flare, a help authoring and technical writing tool featuring onboarding and support from MadCap, and a set of modules for designing advanced guides, aids, and web or application help aids.

    $167

    per month

    Pricing
    MadCap Flare
    Editions & Modules
    MadCap Central
    $1,500
    per year
    MadCap Flare
    $1,999
    per year
    MadCap AMS
    $2,999
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MadCap Flare
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsIncludes a 12-month Platinum-level Maintenance Plan.
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    MadCap Flare
    Considered Both Products
    MadCap Software
    Chose MadCap Flare
    MadCap Flare provides for proper single-sourcing of content for an array of needs. Wikis are incredibly limited, static and hard to manage, and content quickly becomes obsolete.
    Incentivized
    Chose MadCap Flare
    I wish Google Docs would work for our purposes, but it doesn't have a lot of the technical writing features we need. Using Google Docs would make reviewing and edits much much quicker, but we need MadCap to house all our documents for our Help website.
    Incentivized
    Chose MadCap Flare
    MadCap software does offer quite a few more technical features than Google Drive, but the user experience is far inferior. Google Drive is much less buggy to work with, and it's much more accessible. MadCap only being available on Windows operating systems makes it difficult to …
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    MadCap Flare
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    6.4
    (2 ratings)