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Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a commercial word document processor for Windows.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft Word

pdfFiller CryptPad LibreOffice Etherpad Aspose PowerPoint to Word Converter UniDoc.io Apache OpenOffice Geekersoft PDF Editor MuPDF SwiftLaTeX

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Microsoft Word are pdfFiller, CryptPad, and LibreOffice. 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. 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

  3. 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

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

    #Office Suites #Office & Productivity #Software Development 18 social mentions

  5. 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

  6. 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

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

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

  8. Professional and comprehensive PDF conversion editing processing software, in addition to supporting PD editing and conversion, also supports a variety of PDF merge/split/signature operations, which can meet our daily work and life various PDF editi…
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Paid
    • Free Trial
    • $19.99 / Monthly

    #PDF Tools #PDF Editor #PDF Creator

  9. 9
    MuPDF is a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

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

  10. Fast, browser-based LaTeX visual editor.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Project Management #Writing #Office Suites

  11. 11
    Be more productive with Twake : the collaborative work platform to organize and manage all your projects on a single platform.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial

    #Project Management #Office Suites #Task Management 16 social mentions

  12. Beautifies Excel to JavaScript/JSON format.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Spreadsheets #Office Suites #Office & Productivity 7 social mentions

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