Collabora Office 4+

I love Libre Source to the point where I may actually contribute to this project, but the trackpad support on iPadOS is lackluster at best right now. I have super complex spreadsheets and I thought that using this in collaboration with my Linux desktop would work amazing. It’s actually pretty good and 99% there, but needs some minor polishing.

If you try to use this app in the natural way you would use any other app, you will quickly lose all of your work! Like, if you click “new, document” and type up a text document, the most obvious button to push is the check mark at the top left. You think it has saved your work, so then you click the back arrow at the top left. But is your work saved? No! Not only is it not saved but it is permanently deleted! Let’s try again, type new document, go to hamburger button top right, now you click on “save.” Surely now it is saved and it is now safe to click the back button at the top left? Wrong again! Your work was NOT saved and it is completely lost again! The only way to save your work is to find “export” and export it has something like a .doc or .pdf. I recommend doing this first thing, before you start typing. If you do this first it will save correctly. A good app would make it nearly impossible to accidentally lose your work. With this app, losing your work is the default, if you are not extremely careful. The right way would be, when clicking “new document” it should prompt you to type a title for the file and select what type of document/file it is going to be. That step would take care of the exporting first thing and then it would be saved before you even start writing

I really don’t understand why there are so many bad reviews. I loved LibreOffice, but my computer broke. So, I downloaded collabora and it’s essentially the same thing. Same interface and buttons, same good app. People complaining about work not being saved clearly aren’t interpreting that this is essentially Libreoffice on mobile. You need to press a button that says save for it to save. It’s not really buggy at all, even when scrolling and opening doccuments. It’s insanely easy to use and really nice to use actually. 10/10, would recommend.