Stenography

Stenography is an automatic documentation generator made for developers. Instead of writing docs after the fact, it records your codebase as you save, so the documentation keeps pace with the code rather than drifting out of date. It also provides an API that translates your code into explanations that are easy to understand, and you can customize how that output looks. To help with day-to-day problems, Stenography can surface Stack Overflow suggestions and related documentation right where you are working, so you spend less time jumping to a search engine. You stay in your editor while the documentation builds in the background. It supports a range of extensions, puts weight on user privacy, and gives you 250 free calls per month.

- Generate documentation automatically as you save code

- Turn code into plain-language explanations via the API

- Pull in Stack Overflow suggestions and related docs

- Keep a searchable record of why the code does what it does

- Customize the output to fit your project

- Developers who find writing documentation tedious

- Teams that want docs to stay in sync with the codebase

- Maintainers inheriting an unfamiliar codebase

- Anyone who wants quick, readable explanations of code

The free plan is limited to 250 calls per month, so heavy users will need a paid tier, and pricing or limits may change over time. Automatic documentation is a starting point, not a finished product: you should still review what it generates for accuracy and clarity, since it can miss the reasoning behind your code. Because it works through an editor extension and an API, changes to either can affect how well it runs. Treat the built-in suggestions as a shortcut, and verify anything important against the primary source. It is also best suited to teams that already keep their code well organized.