Introduction
An office suite is a collection of programs, mainly consisting of a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation application bundled together.
With the pricey tag put onto the all popular Microsoft Office, it leaves no surprise that the average home user or small business would be looking for an alternative. Below we have reviewed and rated all the popular freeware office suites and split them into three sections making it easier to find the best solution:
- Proprietary, privately owned software being offered up for free.
- Open-Source, an open-source office suite and various mods based on the same programming code making them similar to use.
- Online, a cloud or web based suite that can be used on the move; some even contain a mobile app for easy updating.
[Doakio Editor's Note: This article was restored from Gizmo's Freeware archives as a service to the freeware community. Gizmo's Freeware provided high-quality, volunteer freeware reviews for decades. They shut down in July of 2021.]
Proprietary Office Suite
WPS Office Free Most similar to Microsoft Office
License: Free (Limited features)
SSuite Office A huge collection of products designed to make any office task easier
License: Free
Softmaker FreeOffice A lite version of the commercial application Softmaker Office
Open-Source Office Suite
LibreOffice A fork from OpenOffice and an actively developed free and open-source office suite
License: Free (Open source)
Apache OpenOffice A leading open-source office suite offering free productivity applications
License: Free (Open source)
Online Office Suite
Google Drive A reliable online office suite for storing, sharing and collaborative editing of documents
License: Free (Limited features)
Zoho An online office suite includes Writer, Sheet and Show
License: Free (Limited features)
ThinkFree An online office suite with Java dependency
License: Free (Limited features)
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