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Microsoft Word is a commercial word document processor for Windows.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word
pdfFiller LibreOffice CryptPad Etherpad Scribus DjVuLibre Aspose PowerPoint to Word Converter UniDoc.io Apache OpenOffice iTextPDF

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Microsoft Word are pdfFiller, LibreOffice, and CryptPad. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. A comprehensive online document management platform that provides the services of an online editor, cloud storage platform, and a signature request manager, all in one package.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Paid
    • Free Trial
    • $8.0 / Monthly (annual commitment)

    #PDF Tools #PDF Editor #eSignature 7 social mentions

  2. Free office suite, open source, and compatible with .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx files. Updated regularly – download for free. Originally based on OpenOffice.org.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Office Suites #Office & Productivity #Project Management 15 social mentions

  3. CryptPad is a collaborative office suite that is end-to-end encrypted and open-source.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • €5.0 / Monthly (Personal 5GB)

    #Office Suites #Project Management #Office & Productivity 88 social mentions

  4. Etherpad is a highly customizable Open Source online editor providing collaborative editing in...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Office Suites #Office & Productivity #Project Management 18 social mentions

  5. Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Design Tools #PDF Editor #Graphic Design Software

  6. DjVuLibre: Open Source DjVu library and viewer
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #PDF Tools #PDF Readers And Editors #File Converter 1 social mentions

  7. Convert PowerPoint PPT to Word. Free, fast, and secure PPT to DOC/DOCX conversion.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free
    • Free Trial

    #Office & Productivity #Office Tools #Presentations

  8. PDF & Office Libraries In Pure Golang.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Paid
    • Free Trial
    • $1500.0 / Annually (Individual License)

    #Golang IDE #Software Libraries #Multimedia Library 7 social mentions

  9. Apache OpenOffice is an open source, office document productivity suite.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Office Suites #Office & Productivity #Project Management 13 social mentions

  10. iText offers flexible tools for PDF creation, editing and inspection.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Office & Productivity #PDF Tools #Word 4 social mentions

  11. 11
    WebODF is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to add Open Document Format (ODF) support to your...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Office Suites #Office Tools #Project Management 1 social mentions

  12. 12
    MuPDF is a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #PDF Tools #PDF Readers And Editors #PDF Editor 20 social mentions

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