LibreOffice

Name: LibreOffice
Price: 8.99 USD
Author: The Document Foundation

Open Source Office Suite

Only for Mac

$8.99

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4+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

The Document Foundation
Language

EN
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Size

941.1
MB

Mac

Powerful privacy-respecting office suite, based on OpenOffice, compatible with Microsoft® Office. It has been in development since 2010, and is used by tens of millions of people around the world. It's backed by The Document Foundation, a non-profit organisation. Included: Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics and flowcharts), Base (databases), and Math (formula editing). LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) and Publisher. But LibreOffice goes much further with its native support for a modern and open standard, the Open Document Format (ODF). With LibreOffice, you have maximum control over your data and content – and you can export your work in many different formats including PDF. LibreOffice is made by a worldwide community, who can help you: * Do you have a question about LibreOffice? See https://ask.libreoffice.org * Want to report a problem? Let our QA community know: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org Please note that the version provided in the App Store cannot support Java functionality, such as Java-based extensions.

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More than I thought
02/23/2025
karlforeverlearning
I am a very buzy person and I do not write reviews. However, this is an exception. To prove it, I am taking time out of my schedule to write this. A few year ago I purched LibreOffice as a backup to my MSOffice. It was never utilized till abour 2 weeks ago. For some reason my MSOffice stopped working. It was laptop based not 365 version. I tried for 3 days attempting to restore. MSOffice. Nothing worked. I cannot justify there subscription prices. Nor do I trust them. So, I was forced to start using LibreOffice. WOW! it is very mature. It got me out of a tough situation. I use it exclusively now. MSOffice was removed from my laptop. Never to be reinstalled. I use it in place of MSWord and Power Point. So far all of my created files work fine in LibreOffice. It even handles the drop down boxes that many of the Documents I use have.Thank you and kudos to the LibreOffice Team!!!!!
More than I thought
02/23/2025
karlforeverlearning

I am a very buzy person and I do not write reviews. However, this is an exception. To prove it, I am taking time out of my schedule to write this. A few year ago I purched LibreOffice as a backup to my MSOffice. It was never utilized till abour 2 weeks ago. For some reason my MSOffice stopped working. It was laptop based not 365 version. I tried for 3 days attempting to restore. MSOffice. Nothing worked. I cannot justify there subscription prices. Nor do I trust them. So, I was forced to start using LibreOffice. WOW! it is very mature. It got me out of a tough situation. I use it exclusively now. MSOffice was removed from my laptop. Never to be reinstalled. I use it in place of MSWord and Power Point. So far all of my created files work fine in LibreOffice. It even handles the drop down boxes that many of the Documents I use have.Thank you and kudos to the LibreOffice Team!!!!!
So many issues. But love the privacy
01/07/2025
Larry;(
My biggest complaint is that it doesn’t update to the current build available on the website. I seem to be several versions behind and I’m wondering if this has anything to do with the reason dictation doesn’t work well. I spend a lot of time dictating into. The app when I'm done it disappears looks like it has been completely erased even though I'm watching it appear on the screen. I hit return it disappears. I hit another button and everything reappears, but you have to be very careful so then you just have to do a whole bunch of backpedaling to find what you just dictated. I pay for this app and find it frustrating because I am working with a disability. This app is making everything 10 times harder. I would also love the ability to customize my toolbar to get rid of the things. I don't find useful and putting things in that I use on a regular basis like the increase text size, where everything is uniformly increased in size and not choosing a font size because then that changes all of my headers and subheader sizes and it’s a real pain. I cannot find in the app a place to check for updates. The web says I can go into help and then look for updates, but that is not an option. It's not there.
So many issues. But love the privacy
01/07/2025
Larry;(

My biggest complaint is that it doesn’t update to the current build available on the website. I seem to be several versions behind and I’m wondering if this has anything to do with the reason dictation doesn’t work well. I spend a lot of time dictating into. The app when I'm done it disappears looks like it has been completely erased even though I'm watching it appear on the screen. I hit return it disappears. I hit another button and everything reappears, but you have to be very careful so then you just have to do a whole bunch of backpedaling to find what you just dictated. I pay for this app and find it frustrating because I am working with a disability. This app is making everything 10 times harder. I would also love the ability to customize my toolbar to get rid of the things. I don't find useful and putting things in that I use on a regular basis like the increase text size, where everything is uniformly increased in size and not choosing a font size because then that changes all of my headers and subheader sizes and it’s a real pain. I cannot find in the app a place to check for updates. The web says I can go into help and then look for updates, but that is not an option. It's not there.
Just Took A Little Adjustment
Aug 5
DrTime
Raspberry Pi 5 Bookworm came with LibreOffice. I opened some of my long term Mac based documents and was impressed with what I saw. I also tired of sending money to MS for Office 365. So when my renewal came up for my Mac, I canceled and felt free. Paid for LibreOffice (~$9) and tried it on my same files. On a 4K row Excel file, no problems. On my 30 slide project document, it was workable. Differences with MS Office took a little retraining of my fingers, but find the entire package acceptable. The only missing element is a similar version for my iPhone and iPad.
Just Took A Little Adjustment
Aug 5
DrTime

Raspberry Pi 5 Bookworm came with LibreOffice. I opened some of my long term Mac based documents and was impressed with what I saw. I also tired of sending money to MS for Office 365. So when my renewal came up for my Mac, I canceled and felt free. Paid for LibreOffice (~$9) and tried it on my same files. On a 4K row Excel file, no problems. On my 30 slide project document, it was workable. Differences with MS Office took a little retraining of my fingers, but find the entire package acceptable. The only missing element is a similar version for my iPhone and iPad.
Works on my MacBook Pro, a mess on my iMac
01/22/2024
Bruvver
Installed this first on my main machine, a 2017 iMac with Monterrey OS and 64Gb of RAM. There, the app is a complete mess. It doesn't respond to MagicMouse scrolling; double-clicking a word does not select it; it takes three attempts every time to drag across a phrase or sentence to select it; and what limited scrolling I can do by clicking in the scrollbar often results in visually split pages right down the middle, where the left half of the screen displays (for inatnce) page 2 and the right half hangs on page 1. A miserable experience, so I was going to leave a one-star review. Then II found that LibreOffice works fine on my MacBooks Pros from 2018 and 2020. Not sure what's going ohere n but especially for a paid app I expect excellent compatibility, not just with SOME Macs.

Developer Response
If you still experience issues on the older device with the latest macOS and LibreOffice versions (quite a bit has changed between 7.5 and 24.2), could you please open a bug report on https://bugs.documentfoundation.org so developers can look into it? Much appreciated!
Works on my MacBook Pro, a mess on my iMac
01/22/2024
Bruvver

Installed this first on my main machine, a 2017 iMac with Monterrey OS and 64Gb of RAM. There, the app is a complete mess. It doesn't respond to MagicMouse scrolling; double-clicking a word does not select it; it takes three attempts every time to drag across a phrase or sentence to select it; and what limited scrolling I can do by clicking in the scrollbar often results in visually split pages right down the middle, where the left half of the screen displays (for inatnce) page 2 and the right half hangs on page 1. A miserable experience, so I was going to leave a one-star review. Then II found that LibreOffice works fine on my MacBooks Pros from 2018 and 2020. Not sure what's going ohere n but especially for a paid app I expect excellent compatibility, not just with SOME Macs.
Developer Response 07/03/2024
If you still experience issues on the older device with the latest macOS and LibreOffice versions (quite a bit has changed between 7.5 and 24.2), could you please open a bug report on https://bugs.documentfoundation.org so developers can look into it? Much appreciated!

LibreOffice 26.2.6 contains the following new features: Writer * Anchored objects are no longer selected after pasting. The old behaviour can be restored by setting the expert option Office::Writer::Cursor::Option::SelectPastedAnchoredObject to true. (Michael Stahl, Collabora) tdf#167833 * Floating tables and the keep-with-next/don't split paragraph attributes now work better together in Writer. (Miklos Vajna, Collabora) * Change tracking: it is now possible to decide which change to accept for interdependent changes. (Miklos Vajna, Collabora) Floating tables can now be split into floating tables, which improves DOCX export. (Michael Stahl, Collabora) fc53ab8e When changing one numbered list by joining it to a previous one (Add to list), this now helpfully also removes any "Restart numbering" properties. (Justin Luth) tdf#113213 * Writer now supports Start and End paragraph alignment. These options align paragraphs relative to the paragraph text direction, and can simplify reusing styles across languages and writing systems. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#118350 * Writer can now automatically set the direction of RTL text while typing. This behavior can be added to a paragraph style by checking the "Automatically set direction" option in the alignment tab of the paragraph dialog. (Jonathan Clark, TDF) tdf#162120 […] Calc * Improvements to the Sort dialog options. (Regina Henschel) * When natural sort is enabled in the Sort dialog options, you have an additional choice to treat decimal separators as regular characters. That allows to sort IP addresses, for example, even if your locale has a dot as decimal separator. The fact that natural sort is enabled is now written to the file and thus retained when reopening the file. tdf#161949 * Column titles don't overlap anymore when column widths are small. (Heiko Tietze, TDF) tdf#168092} * Pointers to sheet names consisting only of non-ASCII characters separated by '.' are now imported correctly from xlsx documents (Vladislav Tarakanov, Amin Irgaliev) tdf#100154 * Scrolling speed was improved when a spreadsheet has many hidden columns (Caolán McNamara, Collabora) tdf#156297 * Spreadsheets with lots of shapes are now faster to work with. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#154913 […] Impress * Master elements are now disabled when not in Master Slide mode. (Andreas Heinisch) tdf#112327 Chart * Hovering with the mouse over Chart data range colour palette entries in the Sidebar now shows a live preview in the active chart. (Marco Cecchetti, Collabora) 25fa7051 […] Performance * Performance issues with 3D charts were fixed. (Noel Grandin, Collabora) tdf#148988 Core / General * Added connector support for Writer and Calc. The object path in the standard toolbar: Insert ▸ Shape ▸ Connectors. The object path in the tabbed user interface: Insert ▸ Connectors (double click for multi-selection). (Amin Irgaliev, Vladislav Tarakanov) tdf#79356 * Fonts for which the license disallows editing, which are embedded in documents, are now supported. Previously, they were silently ignored, and the documents were displayed using substitute fonts. Now the user is asked if they want to open the document in edit mode (without the said fonts), or in read-only mode (with the fonts used for display). ODF and OOXML file formats are supported. (Mike Kaganski, Collabora) tdf#145967 * Google Drive authentication was improved to use normal browser method (Windows only for now). (Mike Kaganski, Collabora) tdf#101630 * PDF export: handle document external links. (Floris Bos; Olivier Hallot, TDF) tdf#167490 tdf#170309 please see https://whatsnew.libreoffice.org/26.2/ and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2 for more details.

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Seller: The Document Foundation
Size: 941.1 MB
Category: Productivity
Compatibility: Requires macOS 11.0.0 or later.

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More than I thought

So many issues. But love the privacy

Just Took A Little Adjustment

Works on my MacBook Pro, a mess on my iMac

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