Help+Manual is a single-source help authoring and content management system for both single and multi-author editing. Working with Help+Manual is as easy as writing text with a word processor. Help+Manual scales from small to really large projects with thousands of pages and creates Windows help files, Webhelp and manuals in print and PDF format. Try yourself and download a trial of Help+Manual! Writing help has never been easier.
Help+Manuals working environment gives you all the formatting and editing features of a modern word processor, including dynamic styles and complex tables. The software creates all classic help file and documentation formats:
Microsoft HTML Help (.chm)
Visual Studio Help
Webhelp for integration into your website
User manuals in Adobe PDF format
Apple iPad e-books
Features:
Multiple output from one single source
All outputs are highly customizeable
PDF manuals with active hyperlinks
Built-in multi-user authoring capabilities
Tools includes: reports, translation assistants, image and screen shot tools
Single source, Multiple output Single source is much more than just outputting exactly the same information to different formats. Help+Manual supports conditional and customized output features that enable you to include variant content versions for different output formats and purposes - all in the same project, no post-processing is required.
Help+Manual handles all the complexities of help formatting and generation for you, letting you concentrate on the work of writing. But there is also extensive support for power users and experienced help authors. You can get under the hood and insert your own HTML code, change the code the program uses to generate your projects, manipulate topic and project templates and more.
Help+Manual gives you the best of both worlds. Download the fully functional evaluation version to try Help+Manual for 30 days!
What's new in 10.1.0
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Help+Manual 10.1.0! This update is particularly interesting if you want to use the ChatGPT plugin with custom LLMs. ChatGPT Plugin We fixed a proxy bug with the ChatGPT plugin: the plugin did not use the proxy defined for Help+Manual in general. With this update, ChatGPT uses the global proxy by default and lets you set custom proxy settings in the plugin directly.
Help+Manual 10.1.0 Miscellaneous Changes - Paste picture from clipboard: the save dialog that lets you specify the file name for the picture now uses the extended version, so you can directly add an image style, caption, zoom, etc. - Insert Variable: the dialog now features a recently used list with the last 7 variables inserted, making variables easier to insert - eViewer 5.6 included - SnipSVG 2.1 included - PDF snippets in PDF export: when a “raw PDF snippet” was the very first item in a topic, the snippet was not printed. - Word/DOCX export: Cyrillic characters in style names were not exported correctly on a Russian Windows. - Webhelp Export on Chinese Windows versions: UTF8-BOM for topic pages was wrong encoded. All updates are available from our download page.
Help+Manual 10 can open or be associated with 6 file types:
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Help+Manual 10 version history
10.0.3Nov 19, 2025
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Help+Manual 10.0.3 and Translation Assistant 10.0.3! This update comes with a few bug fixes and one very convenient new feature. Automatic Image Refresh When you edit a picture in a topic with SnipSVG (or any other image editor), Help+Manual automatically refreshes the image, once you switch back to the application. We have put a great effort into this check-and-auto-refresh function, to make it lightening fast. It is on by default, but you can switch it off in Program Options. Problem Fix with Open Dialogs Help+Manual 10 has new open and save dialogs, that match the skin (light/dark) and feature an integrated preview for many file types. These new dialogs have caused delays with two customers. The symptom was a delay of more than half a minute, before the dialogs appeared. We were able to track this down to an incompatibility with 3rd party apps, that inject custom overlay icons in Windows Explorer. If you happened to experience such a delay with any of the open/save dialogs, the problem should now be solved. YouTube Videos YouTube has once again changed their policy and sometimes refuses to show embedded videos. The typical YouTube error is “501 Configuration Error”. For local HTML, that is unfortunately normal. For HTML pages running on a web server, it should work. We have implemented two modifications to avoid this problem. If you still experience issues with YouTube videos on a web server, please contact us. …
10.0.2Oct 20, 2025
We are glad to announce the immediate availability of Help+Manual 10.0.2 and Translation Assistant 10.0.2! Help+Manual 10.0.2 Changes - Publishing Tasks: in dark mode, publishing multiple task entries created an error. - Insert Snippet dialog: mouse wheel support did not scroll the listbox of snippet topics. - The syntax editor always converted tabs to spaces. Syntax editors are used for XML topic source code and for HTML code in various dialogs. - German UI: visual glitches in Insert Link dialog and bullet list selection fixed. - Additional symbols implemented in Customize List Style dialog. - Config > Common > Text Variables: spacing of variables grid was larger than normal. Translation Assistant 10.0.2 Changes - Side selection in session window did not work on a single mouse click: a single click on any tree column must activate this side. - Copying (new) topic sub-folders from one project to another had a small bug: the resulting topics were copied but not correctly listed under this folder in Help+Manual. Instead, the topic files were listed separately. - Dialogs updated to match Help+Manual 10.0.2 (Customize List Style, Insert Snippet, etc.) All updates are available from our download page.
10.0.1Sep 27, 2025
Other versions
10.0.0
Frequently asked questions
Is Help+Manual 10 free?
Help+Manual 10 is proprietary software from EC Software. Check the publisher's license terms for pricing and usage rights.
What is the latest version of Help+Manual 10?
The latest version is 10.1.0, released on Jan 9, 2026.
Is it safe to download Help+Manual 10?
The download button links to the official installer published on helpandmanual.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with f92880f58ae9e8e8d8aba7195bf98d67455cf3b944c48b3d35ffae15e1bdc261.
Which Windows versions does Help+Manual 10 support?
Help+Manual 10 runs on Windows and is available for 32-bit (x86) systems.
How do I install Help+Manual 10 silently?
Run the offline installer with "help-and-manual-setup-v1010.exe" /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /SP- /CURRENTUSER, or install it with Windows Package Manager: winget install --id=ECSoftware.Help+Manual.10 -e --silent.
How do I uninstall Help+Manual 10?
Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Help+Manual 10 and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=ECSoftware.Help+Manual.10 -e.
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