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Dash

API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager for macOS with offline access and AI M

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Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager for macOS that provides instant offline access to documentation sets for more than 200 APIs, along with cheat sheets and other reference material. It solves the problem of needing to look up API references while working, by keeping documentation searchable locally rather than requiring a web connection.

Dash includes a built-in Docset Generator that can scrape websites or index local HTML files to create searchable offline docsets, with support for formats including Swift DocC, Doxygen, Sphinx, Yard, Javadoc, Scaladoc, GoDoc, Cargo, HexDoc, DartDoc, Haddock, JSDoc, and general HTML. It integrates with MCP (Model Context Protocol) to connect with AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT. The snippet manager supports system-wide text expansion across applications, with interactive placeholders, syntax highlighting for more than 150 languages, tag-based organization, and special placeholders for clipboard, cursor, date, and time. Dash also offers integration plugins for editors and tools including Xcode, Alfred, Raycast, Vim, Neovim, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA, and Terminal.

Dash is packaged as a paid macOS application with a downloadable trial available.

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