Comparison_of_office_suites
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of office suites:
Platforms listed are for when a local application is available that does not require network connectivity to function.
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
Name | Developer | Predecessor | Initial release | Platform | Latest release | License | Cost (USD) | |
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Version | Date | |||||||
Ability Office | Ability Plus Software | — | 1995 | Windows | 11[1] | 2022-02 | Proprietary | 39.99 + |
Apache OpenOffice | Apache Software Foundation | OpenOffice.org StarOffice |
2012-05 | Linux | 4.1.15[2] | 2023-12-22 | Apache-2.0 | No cost |
macOS | ||||||||
Windows | ||||||||
Calligra Suite | KDE | KOffice | 2011 | BSD | 3.2.1[3] | 2020-05-14 | LGPL and GPL | No cost |
Linux | ||||||||
macOS | ||||||||
Windows | ||||||||
Collabora Online | Collabora | OpenOffice.org Go-oo StarOffice |
2019[lower-alpha 1] | Android | 23.05[4] | 2023-09-21 | MPL-2.0 | No cost, optional subscriptions with support available |
2021[lower-alpha 2] | BSD | Build your own | Build your own | |||||
2019[lower-alpha 1] | ChromeOS | 23.05[4] | 2023-09-21 | |||||
2019[lower-alpha 1] | iOS | 23.05[5] | 2024-01-29 | |||||
2019[lower-alpha 1] | iPadOS | 23.05[5] | 2024-01-29 | |||||
2016[lower-alpha 3] | Linux | Online server: 24.04[6] | 2024-05-23 | |||||
2015[lower-alpha 4] | Desktop app: 23.05.10[7] | 2024-04-06 | ||||||
2015[lower-alpha 4] | CODE:[lower-alpha 5] 24.04.2[8] | 2024-05-13 | ||||||
2015[lower-alpha 4] | macOS | 23.05.10[7] | 2024-04-06 | |||||
2015[lower-alpha 4] | Windows | 23.05.10[7] | 2024-04-06 | |||||
Feng Office Community Edition | Feng Office | — | 2007 | Online | 3.11.1.2[9] | 2024-05-14 | AGPL-3.0-only | No cost |
GNU TeXmacs | Joris van der Hoeven | — | 1996? | BSD | 2.1.4[10] | 2024-03-11 | GPL-3.0-or-later | No cost |
Linux | ||||||||
macOS | ||||||||
Unix | ||||||||
Windows | ||||||||
Google Workspace | G Suite Google Apps Writely |
2006 | Android[lower-alpha 6] | Rolling | Rolling | Proprietary | 0 - 60[lower-alpha 7] | |
ChromeOS[lower-alpha 8] | ||||||||
iOS[lower-alpha 6] | ||||||||
Linux[lower-alpha 8] | ||||||||
macOS[lower-alpha 6] | ||||||||
Windows[lower-alpha 6] | ||||||||
Hancom Office | Hancom | ThinkFree Office | 1998 | Android | 2020 | 2020 | Proprietary | 59.99 - 119.99 |
iOS | ||||||||
macOS | ||||||||
Online | ||||||||
Windows | ||||||||
iWork | Apple Inc. | AppleWorks[11] | 2005 | iOS | 14.0[12][13] | 2024-04-02 | Proprietary | No cost |
iPadOS | ||||||||
macOS | ||||||||
Online | ||||||||
LibreOffice | The Document Foundation | OpenOffice.org Go-oo StarOffice |
2010-09 | BSD | 24.2.3[14] | 2024-05-02 | MPL-2.0 | No cost |
Linux | ||||||||
macOS | ||||||||
Solaris/Illumos | ||||||||
Unix | ||||||||
Windows | ||||||||
Microsoft 365 | Microsoft | Forethought, Inc.[15] | 2015 | Android | rolling | 2024 | Proprietary | 89.95 - 679.95 |
2013 | iOS | rolling | 2024 | |||||
1990 | macOS | 2021 | 2021 | |||||
2011 | online | rolling | 2024 | |||||
1992 | Windows | 2021 | 2021 | |||||
NeoOffice (discontinued) |
Planamesa Software | OpenOffice.org LibreOffice StarOffice |
2005-06-02 | macOS | 2022[16] | 2022-05-13 | GPL | Discontinued |
OfficeSuite | MobiSystems | — | 2004 | Android | 12.0.39465[17] | 2021-12-16 | Proprietary | 0 - 29.99[lower-alpha 9] |
ChromeOS | 12.0.39465[17] | 2021-12-16 | ||||||
iOS | 9.4[18] | 2022-01-19 | ||||||
macOS | 1.5[19] | 2020-01-01 | ||||||
Windows | 6.30.43840 | 2021 | ||||||
OnlyOffice | Ascensio Systems | Teamlab | 2010 | Android | 8.0.1[20] | 2024-02-26 | AGPL | 0 - 75-7,200[lower-alpha 10] |
iOS | 8.0.1[20] | 2024-02-26 | ||||||
Linux | 8.0.1[20] | 2024-02-26 | ||||||
macOS | 8.0.1[20] | 2024-02-26 | ||||||
Online | 8.0.1[20] | 2024-02-26 | ||||||
Windows | 8.0.1[20] | 2024-02-26 | ||||||
Polaris Office | Infraware Inc. | — | 2011-05 | Android | 9.6.3[21][22] | 2021-12-23 | Proprietary | ? |
iOS | 9.6.4[23] | 2021-12-29 | ||||||
macOS | 9.0.30[24] | 2021-12-03 | ||||||
Windows | 9.113.79[25] | 2021-12-28 | ||||||
SoftMaker Office | SoftMaker | — | 2012-08[26] | Android | 2024 rev 1204[27] | 2023-09-07 | Proprietary | 29.90 - 129.95[lower-alpha 11] |
2020-12[28] | ChromeOS | |||||||
2022-08[29] | iOS | |||||||
2006-12[26] | Linux | |||||||
2018-03[26] | macOS | |||||||
1995-12[26] | Windows | |||||||
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Tiki Association[lower-alpha 12] | — | 2002 | Online | 25.3[30] | 2023-10-11 | LGPL-2.1-only | No cost |
WordPerfect Office | Corel | WordPerfect (1982) | 1991 | Windows | 2021[31] | 2021-05 | Proprietary | 69.99 - 399.99 |
WPS Office | Kingsoft | Kingsoft Office | 1988 | Android | PC 11.2.0 | 2019-04 | Proprietary | 0 - 119.99[lower-alpha 13] |
Linux | ||||||||
iOS | ||||||||
macOS | ||||||||
Windows | ||||||||
Zimbra | Synacor | — | 2005 | Online | Rolling | Rolling | Proprietary | 0 - ? optional options that cost[lower-alpha 14] |
Zoho Workplace | Zoho Corp. | Zoho Office Suite | 2005 | Online | Rolling | Rolling | Proprietary | At cost[lower-alpha 15] |
Name | Developer | Predecessor | Initial release | Platform | Latest release | License | Cost (USD) | |
Version | Date |
OS support
The operating systems the office suites were designed to run on without emulation; for the given office suite/OS combination, there are five possibilities:
- No indicates that it does not exist or was never released.
- Partial indicates that the office suite lacks important functionality and it is still being developed, or it is online only so requires network connectivity to function.
- Beta indicates that while a version of the office suite is fully functional and has been released, it is still in development (e.g. for stability).
- Yes indicates that the office suite has been officially released in a fully functional, stable version.
- Dropped indicates that while the office suite works, new versions are no longer being released for the indicated OS; the number in parentheses is the last known stable version which was officially released for that OS.
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
Supported file formats
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
Name | Legacy Microsoft Office
|
OpenDocument
|
Strict Office Open XML
|
Microsoft XML
|
Portable Document Format
|
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Ability Office | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Export |
Apache OpenOffice | Yes | Native format | No | Import | Yes with plugin |
Calligra Suite | Import | Native format | No | Import | Export[lower-alpha 32] |
Collabora Online | Yes | Native format | Yes[lower-alpha 33] | Yes | Yes |
Feng Office Community Edition | No | No | No | No | No |
GNU TeXmacs | No | No | No | No | Export |
Google Workspace | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Hancom Office | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
iWork | Yes | No | No | Import | Export |
LibreOffice | Yes | Native format | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Microsoft 365 | Partial[lower-alpha 34] | Partial[lower-alpha 35] | Partial[lower-alpha 36][33] | Native format[34] | Yes |
NeoOffice (discontinued) |
Yes | Native format | No | Yes | Import with plugin |
OfficeSuite | Yes | Partial[lower-alpha 37] | No | Yes | Yes |
OnlyOffice | Yes | Yes | No | Native format | Yes |
Polaris Office | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Viewing |
SoftMaker Office | Yes | Partial[lower-alpha 38] | No | Yes | Yes |
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | search | search | No | search | Export and search |
WordPerfect Office | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Some versions |
WPS Office | Yes | Yes with add-in | No | Yes | Export in all versions. Import with subscription only. |
Zimbra | Yes | Native format | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Zoho Office Suite | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Name | Legacy Microsoft Office
|
OpenDocument
|
Strict Office Open XML
|
Microsoft XML
|
Portable Document Format
|
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
Online capabilities
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
- Online only (iCloud) requiring Internet connectivity to function
- Online only (Microsoft 365) requiring Internet connectivity to function
- A partially open file format to present documents, including text formatting and images.
It includes proprietary technologies defined only by Adobe that are not standardized and whose specifications are published only on Adobe's website, many of these are not supported by popular third-party implementations of PDF. - Import/Export with ProjectLibre and others.[35]
- LibreOffice Writer and Draw contain desktop publishing features, but feature sets are not equal for both components.[37] Although Draw can import Microsoft Publisher files, it has problems of creating complex editorial projects.[38] For example, alternate glyphs in fonts cannot be used automatically.[39] Official tech support recommended Scribus for desktop publishing tasks.[40]
- A lightweight, web-based version of Visio is available to Microsoft 365 business subscribers. Full Visio is available to organizations as a separate purchase from Office.[41]
- Vector graphics can be made in Microsoft PowerPoint.
- An equation editor is available in Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft OneNote.
- Can interface with email clients and Mail Merge Wizard can send email directly from LibreOffice.[42]
- LibreOffice Online under development.[43]
- Versions after Office 2000 Premium and Developer contain Microsoft FrontPage, the full-blown web page editor.
- Available for separate subscription.[46]
- "Ability Office Ability Office History". Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- "Announcing Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15". 22 December 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- "Release 3.11.1.2". 14 May 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- Joris van der Hoeven (2 April 2024). "TeXmacs 2.1.4". Retrieved 2 April 2024.
- "Apple Unveils iWork '05". Apple Inc. 2005-01-11. Archived from the original on 2011-03-29. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
- Ed Hardy (2 April 2024). "iWork 14 brings useful tweaks to Pages, Numbers and Keynote". Retrieved 7 May 2024.
- Italo Vignoli (2 May 2024). "Announcement of LibreOffice 24.2.3 Community". Retrieved 2 May 2024.
- The presentation program (Powerpoint) was created by Forethought, Inc. and later purchased by Microsoft Corporation for $14 million (~$32.2 million in 2023). "COMPANY NEWS; Microsoft Buys Software Unit". The New York Times. 1987-07-31. Retrieved 2006-12-02.
Microsoft created the other two core compenents of their office suite, the word processor (Word) and the spreadsheet program (Excel). - Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
- "Release 8.0.1". 26 February 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- "Polaris Office 9.113.79 Download". Archived from the original on 25 January 2022.
- "SoftMaker's product history". Archived from the original on 2018-05-17.
- Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
- "Barry MacDonnell's Toolbox for WordPerfect for Windows - What's new and different in recent WordPerfect versions". Archived from the original on 23 January 2022.
- "Does ProjectLibre offer export and import features ?". ProjectLibre. January 1, 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-12-23. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
You can cut/paste spreadsheet data into the spreadsheets of ProjectLibre. You can import the .csv into OpenOffice or LibreOffice spreadsheets. You can also rearrange the spreadsheet in ProjectLibre to whatever columns match up and then just paste the data into ProjectLibre. We can do a mapping/import in the future to allow import directly of .csv. There is just a lot of things on the list.
- "LibreOffice Version 4.3 Draw Guide" (PDF). LibreOffice Documentation Team. pp. 115–137. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
- Designing with LibreOffice, Chapter 7, The limits to LibreOffice text design, page 191
- "LibreOffice Version 4.2 Getting Started Guide" (PDF). LibreOffice Documentation Team. June 18, 2014. pp. 304–307. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
LibreOffice provides several ways to send documents quickly and easily as e-mail attachments in one of three formats: OpenDocument (LibreOffice's default format), Microsoft formats, or PDF.
- Segar Yegulalp (March 25, 2015). "LibreOffice's next big version is in the cloud". InfoWorld, Inc. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
- "Choose your Office". Microsoft. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
- "SharePoint Online". Microsoft. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
- "WordPerfect Office X7 Handbook" (PDF). Corel Corporation. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 11, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2015.