Collabora Office is a text editor, spreadsheet and presentation program based on LibreOffice, the world's most popular Open Source office suite — and now it's on iOS, enhancing your possibilities to work on mobile devices.
This app is in active development, feedback and bug reports are very welcome.
Supported files:
• Open Document Format (.odt, .odp, .ods, .ots, .ott, .otp)
• Microsoft Office 2007/2010/2013/2016/2019 (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx, .dotx, .xltx, .ppsx)
• Microsoft Office 97/2000/XP/2003 (.doc, .ppt, .xls, .dot, .xlt, .pps)
Report issues:
Use the bugtracker and attach any files that caused problems via
https://col.la/iosBug . Please note that anything you enter in the bugtracker will be public.
About the app:
Collabora Office for iOS is based on the LibreOffice code for macOS and other platforms. This, combined with a new front-end based on Collabora Online.
Credits:
iOS port is mainly based on the work of Collabora engineer Tor Lillqvist, with help of Patrick Luby. Please find a detailed list of contributors in the credits: https://col.la/iosCredits
License: Open Source — Mozilla Public License v2 and other
I like the design, which I find to be intuitive and comparable to MS Word and Google Docs, and privacy of course, but there are some fixes needed. It duplicated all of my documents for some reason. It takes a long time for them to load and open. Sometimes when saving a document, the “saving” icon sits there forever, and I need to close the app in order to keep working. There’s no way to easily save & name a new document: I have to save it, close it, and then rename it in the folder. Opening a downloaded PDF that had comments was chaos and pretty much crashed the app. It’s enough that I’m looking for other options.
Dangerously easy to LOSE all of your work! UI needs major fix!
PowerUserPro
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
Collabora Office
The Verifier
As much as I love Libre Office on my Linux computers, and have supported them, this “based on” Libre Office offering for IOS is pretty much useless. I am using an iPad Pro 12.9” display, and have been unable to “control” this apps behavior. Pull up a spreadsheet, highlight a group of already boxed in cells (if it will let you) it wouldn’t stop scrolling on its own. Too far right, kept adding rows…even after I removed my finger from the screen. Try to copy that selection……. Nope. You can’t even copy and paste as all group of cells in a spreadsheet. (8 columns by 5 rows) And as others have mentioned, there is no “Save’ function. Just an “Export” option. Could not find an “insert row” option. As an inspector and product tester, I find this app to be only somewhat “based on” Libre Office. The latest version of Libre Office is absolutely outstanding. But this Collbora Office app in its current form/condition, should not be associated with Libre Office.This app is partially usable as a document viewer only. And results will very even while doing that. I understand that development takes time and lots of effort, and appreciate that this app is free. But basic controls and usability should be in place before attempting to duplicate all the underlying features of a fully loaded office suite. I’m sorry to leave what amounts to a negative review, but this app was quite frustrating to use, and resulted in a loss of productivity. And I’ve been building and using computers since 1982.
Amazing!
7sidedleaf
I’m not sure why there’s so many bad reviews but in the latest versions it’s really good! Plus with open source transparency we don’t have data invasive companies like Microsoft/Google scanning all our documents.Only reason why I dropped it down to 4 stars is small things that can be improved. Copying and pasting text from elsewhere sometimes has text being white, so I have to manually highlight the text on my own and change it to black.In most iOS text editing apps holding down space and dragging finger left (or any said direction) allows for more precise cursor movement than tapping. Kind of like using the space key as a trackpad.When holding down, the paste option appears which is good, but we also need a select all feature in case we want to copy quickly and send elsewhere for quick review! Although this can still be done by manually highlighting the entire document on its own, this small QoL feature would make a huge difference!!All of these minor issues have workarounds so the app is still 100% functional, although incorporating them would make the app more feature rich with modern QoL improvements and would easily bump this app up to a 5 star rating!
Hi everyone - happy new year! Yes, I know it's March - but we've had a bit of a longer break than usual and I didn't get to tell you that yet :)
In this version we've made some accessibility improvements - we hope the app should be much easier to use if you're using a screen reader now. We've also built this with fixes and features from Collabora Online 25.04.9.
Finally, we're resuming our normal release schedule - the next version will be in around a month's time - thanks very much for using Collabora Office!
Version 25.04.9
The developer, Collabora Productivity, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
