SOP Management Software: The 2026 Buyer's Guide

SOP management software is the layer that sits above SOP creation: storage, search, versioning, approvals, role-based access, and read/completion analytics. Most teams start with a pure creation tool like [Haiku](/reviews/haiku) or [Scribe](/reviews/scribe) and outgrow it when they hit somewhere between 50 and 200 SOPs — the point where finding, updating, and proving compliance become bigger problems than authoring. For teams at that scale, [SweetProcess](/reviews/sweetprocess) and [Document360](/reviews/document360) are the two mature choices with real approval workflows and audit trails. [Trainual](/reviews/trainual) is the pick if your management need is centered on training rather than compliance. Below 50 SOPs, don't overbuy — a strong creation tool plus a shared knowledge base surface is usually enough, and the management layer will slow you down more than it helps.