LibreOffice 4+
Open Source Office Suite
The Document Foundation
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- $8.99
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Description
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.
What’s New
Version 24.2.5
Version 24.2.5 contains fixes for the following issues:
cid#1598442 dereference null return value [Caolán McNamara]
i#78474 Font effect "small capitals" change the Arabic font size in dialog preview [Caolán McNamara]
tdf#57414 File Recovery: Don't include unmodified files for AutoRecovery (comment 26) [Justin Luth]
tdf#77388 Images, inserted in a table cell, go out of cell borders when the document (and thus the table) is zoomed. [László Németh]
tdf#96787 AutoCorrect: After Removal of Replacement Entry the Replacement Itself is still Performed. [László Németh]
tdf#136294 Red wrong spelled lining needs a trigger to get activated (spell checker) [Mike Kaganski]
tdf#141773 Autocorrection for all languages doesn't work anymore [László Németh]
tdf#144208 Slow File OPEN of 477 pages ODT with 282 comments and track changes [Noel Grandin]
tdf#144752 Misspelled word is not marked this way after undo of suggestion [Mike Kaganski]
tdf#145972 UI: Displayed image width PROPERTY relative to page erroneous after changing default measurement unit to Pt [Miklos Vajna]
tdf#148569 Character highlighting: custom color color picker shows wrong colors with Skia raster on macOS [Patrick Luby]
tdf#150582 Words with smart quotes/apostrophes get added to custom dictionaries via Writer but not Draw/Impress/Calc [László Németh]
tdf#155212 Writer is very slow when opening a file that includes embedded fonts (macOS) [Patrick Luby]
tdf#155692 Resizing RTL table cells is almost impossible (very tricky) [László Németh]
tdf#157533 Unpredictable cursor and keyboard behaviour after deselecting a math formula [László Németh]
tdf#157833 Unable to resize columns and rows of a table inside of a frame using the cursor [László Németh]
tdf#157931 Top right close button fails to close form [Michael Stahl]
tdf#158023 Incorrect recognition of ")" when importing formulas from docx [Irgaliev Amin]
tdf#158051 Problem with s in Greek Language [László Németh, Xisco Fauli]
tdf#158556 DOCX Document That Opens/Loads Extremely Slowly [Noel Grandin]
tdf#158658 FILEOPEN DOCX/DOC/RTF Tabs closing header paragraph are wrapped and not flowing outside the page area [Michael Stahl]
tdf#158789 Allow SUMIF and SUBTOTAL to apply to arrays [Eike Rathke]
tdf#158914 Calc leaks RAM when using macOS accessibility [Patrick Luby]
tdf#159175 macOS: instruments detect leaks when open new calc document 5 times [Patrick Luby]
tdf#159680 Memory not freed after PDF export [Patrick Luby]
tdf#159741 Pressing Print button followed by cancel is marked as document modification [Caolán McNamara]
tdf#159835 Styles pane burger menu not fully populated on the first attempt [Michael Weghorn]
tdf#160056 calc threaded calculation performance issue [Caolán McNamara]
tdf#160170 FILEOPEN .DOCX: words pulled together, characters overlap in some line of hyphenated paragraph [László Németh]
tdf#160371 Import filter xlsx does not replace MS intersect operator with LibreOffice intersect operator [Eike Rathke]
tdf#160399 Print Preview freezes with whole row merged in large spreadsheet [Noel Grandin]
tdf#160401 FILEOPEN PPTX: wrong word order and font size when cap="small" on right-to-left text (Regression) [Caolán McNamara]
tdf#160522 Generating Chart with more than 4 columns selecting stock first than column or bar: Only 4 colors [Noel Grandin]
tdf#160635 open or insert a TIFF image over 33,554,432 pixels fails in various ways ("Image Filter not found" in sd, Section dialog in sw, Push button in sc) [Caolán McNamara]
tdf#160769 LibreOffice 24.2 Document recovery (from timed autoSave) doesn't restore all open files after crash [Justin Luth]
tdf#160801 Writer crash when use clear formatting after insert page break (macOS only) [Patrick Luby]
tdf#160844 Ctrl+F6 does not switch to (bring the focus back to) the document [Caolán McNamara]
tdf#160877 Paragraph classification deleted after Print Preview or when opening file [Xisco Fauli]
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please see https://tdf.io/releaseplan242 for full list of fixes
Ratings and Reviews
about a year to get used to
once i got my templates figured out, my stress levels really decreased.
they could do some things more succintly, but all open source software has these limitations of time, money and insight.
text editing using revision tracking with native powerpoint format is great!
Works on my MacBook Pro, a mess on my iMac
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!
Good application for basic use but has obvious limits
Got tired of having to pay microsoft for upgrades of a subsription so decided to give this a shot. Overall for basic home use it works well. I'm not a power user just basic budget spreadsheets and word processing. However, one big ommission is it doesn't seem to have a way to use a Grammar Check.
There's an extension but as far as I can tell it requires Java which is disabled in the app store version. However, even the regular version from the Document Foundation web site with the proper JDK installed I couldn't get the grammar check to run. This is with it claiming that it is included by default.
App Privacy
The developer, The Document Foundation, 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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Information
- Seller
- The Document Foundation
- Size
- 908.7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © The Document Foundation
- Price
- $8.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.