RoboHelp was created by Gen Kiyooka,[1] and Blue Sky Software released version 1.0 in January 1992.

[2] Blue Sky Software was founded in 1990 and changed its name to eHelp Corporation on 4 April 2000.

Adobe RoboHelp can generate help files in the following file formats: The version numbering systems used by Blue Sky Software/eHelp Corporation, Macromedia, and Adobe Systems induced some head-scratching, especially among longtime RoboHelp users.

This decision caused confusion because Blue Sky Software released RoboHelp 6.0 in 1998.

With the introduction of Adobe RoboHelp 2015 in June 2015, Adobe Systems used a new numbering system with the release year instead of a version number and continues to use this convention with successive versions.