NookDocs ships every docs site with a small "Powered by NookDocs" attribution in the page footer, aligned to the right. The default is the same on every plan: on. Team and Enterprise tiers can flip it off via a toggle in Settings → Branding.
How it works
White labeling is opt-in — upgrading to Team alone does not silently hide the attribution. You explicitly turn it off when you want to. This way your docs site never changes appearance unexpectedly when you change plans.
| Action | Effect |
| Upgrade to Team | Toggle unlocks (was greyed out on Free/Pro) |
| Toggle off in Settings → Branding | "Powered by NookDocs" disappears from the page footer |
| Toggle back on | Attribution reappears on the next request |
| Downgrade to Free/Pro while toggle is off | Toggle becomes read-only; the attribution comes back automatically because the plan no longer grants the entitlement |
The config field
Settings → Branding writes a single field into nookdocs.config.json:
{
"branding": {
"poweredBy": false
}
}Field omitted (or
true) → attribution shown (default)Field
false+ Team+ plan → attribution hidden
You can also set this directly in the file if you prefer git-driven config — same plan gate applies on commit (the config save endpoint returns 402 if a Free/Pro tenant tries to set it to false).
Where to manage
Project → Settings → Branding → toggle "Show 'Powered by NookDocs' in the footer".
Free / Pro: toggle disabled with a Team plan badge + UpgradePrompt below
Team / Enterprise: toggle enabled, save commits to
nookdocs.config.jsonvia the existing config-commit flow
Plan availability
| Plan | Default state | Can toggle off? |
| Free | shown | No |
| Pro | shown | No |
| Team | shown | ✅ |
| Enterprise | shown | ✅ |
What still renders
Your footer.social links, legal links and copyright line are unaffected by branding.poweredBy. Only the literal "Powered by NookDocs" text disappears.
Your copyright is separate from our attribution
The footer holds two independent lines:
| Position | What it is | Whose | Removed by poweredBy: false? |
| Start (left in LTR) | Your copyright, from legal.copyright | Yours | No |
| End (right in LTR) | "Powered by NookDocs" | Ours | Yes |
Your copyright is yours to write and we never rewrite it. If you set
legal.copyright to "© {year} Acme · Built on NookDocs", that whole string is
your text — white-labeling will not edit it. Change it in
legal.copyright yourself.
Equally, writing a copyright line does not remove our attribution: the two are separate elements, so both appear.
The sidebar carries no attribution at all — it is navigation, and stays yours.
Customizing further
Combine with Custom CSS to restyle the footer — change colors, adjust spacing, embed your own logo.
Verifying it's off
After flipping the toggle:
Save in Settings → Branding
Visit your docs site (
{slug}.nookdocs.siteor your custom domain)Hard refresh (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + R)
Scroll to the bottom of the page — the footer should show your own content only, with no "Powered by" line on the right
The change is live within seconds — the entitlement cache invalidates on plan flip and the page renderer reads the latest committed config.
Why we keep it on Free + Pro
The Free tier is genuinely generous: 1 project, MCP server, full editor, AI assistant, custom domain. The "Powered by" line is the soft monetization signal that pushes paid customers to Team. It's also our only marketing channel for free sites — every footer is a backlink that drives signups.