Author-It Reviews in June 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

"Author-it is giving me a great help in document management"

What do you like best about Author-It? Author gives me great help in managing and speeding up the management of translations of my documents. In a few steps I have the complete documents ready to send. I found the advice that i read in the author community that I read often very useful. I would like to have a lighter author manual for entry level users.

"Great for Large & Complex Documentation Projects"

What do you like best about Author-It? The ability to reuse content is extremely helpful. Combined with the ability to use variants for specific situations, Author-It really helps us deal with the complexity that our projects throw at us.

"Complex, but incredibly powerful"

What do you like best about Author-It? AIT allowed us to grow from 1 help system and 20 paper manuals to multiple help systems (in a variety of flavors) and well over 100 paper manuals. Single-sourcing, reuse, variants, and release states allow us to work smarter, not harder, as we keep up with release updates.

"Great content management, could be better on the publishing side"

What do you like best about Author-It? Author-It is superior when it comes to managing large amounts of complex, single-sourced content. It easily handles variations to content, and the UI is intuitive. I know that whatever content-management challenges that come up, Author-It will handle them. The support I receive from the Service Desk is second-to-none. They get back to you quickly, and genuinely care about your question or issue.

"Cloud version is expensive and not possible to tailor for customer needs."

What do you like best about Author-It? Easy to write and re-use topics. Possibilities to maintain user rights. What do you dislike about Author-It?

"Compact, powerful tool for device documentation"

What do you like best about Author-It? Using content for multiplied device documents. Easy compositing after finishing the content

" Need more improvements"

What do you like best about Author-It? The easy way for translation all the documents What do you dislike about Author-It?

"Using Author-it for User Guides, APIs and Release Notes"

What do you like best about Author-It? Author-it allows you to create standardized title pages, copyright notices and other formatting. Once everything is set up (which can be a painful process), you're in great shape for creating your docs. Once your Word and FrameMaker docs are entered into Author-it you can re-use sections easily. Changing it in one place changes every version of the same piece of text everywhere. This can save a great deal of editing, cutting and pasting.

"Author-it: For the Organized Mind. Or the Mind that Would Be Organized."

What do you like best about Author-It? Author-it forces you to organize your content and to plan how smaller pieces of text and graphics will fit into the big picture. It's a database, and it relies heavily on templates. These things make it easy to apply global changes to style and formatting, and to maintain consistency among different authors.

"Great staff who are always helpful, but with some points of frustration with stability."

What do you like best about Author-It? The workflow for writers is excellent. Having a CMS output to Word is, surprisingly, an advantage because most writers can adjust or create a Word Template. Working in Ant or other language to update document appearance can be far more challenging.