What is the best alternative to&#x20;Documents To Go?

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score 20 · Answer 2

OfficeSuite

Top Con

Ads

Top Pro

Rich editing features

OfficeSuite offers more editing features than similar apps for Android. See More

Top Con

Can not save in ODF

Sure the program can open the ODF format, which is very useful to users of LibreOffice or similar, but it does not seem to be able to save in that format as it tries to save as a docx, doc, rtf, or txt. Maybe in the future. See More

Top Pro

Full compatibility with Microsoft Office and Open Office formats

Top Pro

Excellent PDF editing capabilities

Top Pro

Drag and move text

Top Pro

Keyboard shortcuts

If you have a keyboard connected to your Android device, you can optimize your workflow by using keyboard shortcuts. See More

Top Pro

Supports 56 languages

Top Pro

Supports Bluetooth and WiFi sharing

Other apps typically only support cloud sharing, OfficeSuite Pro allows Android users to share over their network or straight through Bluetooth. See More

Google account holders and non-holders can be set to access and/or collaborate on files/folders in real-time. Additionally, you can find files you've shared not only by filename but by person you've shared the files with. See More

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score 308 · Answer 3

Google Drive

Top Pro

File sharing & collaborative editing

Top Con

No official client for Linux

Google as of yet has a client for Linux, leaving many who use the service forced to use third party apps or the webpage. See More

Top Pro

Built-in office suite

Includes tools for writing, presentations and spreadsheets. See More

Top Con

Data privacy not guaranteed

Data privacy is widely known as one of Google's weaknesses. Data shared through Google is most likely matched up with the user's profile inside other Alphabet inc. subsidiaries, and, due to the business model, used commercially. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with other Google services

For example, you can use search to search through both Drive and Gmail. See More

Top Con

Terms and Conditions allow Google to own anything on Google Drive

They can create derivative works, they can perform it, they can modify it, and they can publish it at will. There are many other specific rights they take over your product. Read the Terms carefully and compare with ANY others. See More

Top Pro

Save files to drive directly from Gmail

Drive lets you save any file from your email. See More

Top Con

No WebDAV, FTP or SFTP

It supports none of these common protocols used for access to network storage, which severely limits OS integration. You are forced to use the browser or a standalone client, which isn't possible on all systems. See More

Top Pro

Revision control

By clicking Ctrl + Alt + G in Windows or Command + Alt + Shift + G is OS X you can access previous version of the file. See More

Top Con

Low bandwidth

Can't even upload all my files to this See More

Top Pro

15GB free

This space is shared across Drive, Gmail & Google Photos. See More

Top Con

Low sync speed

Top Pro

Mobile integration

You can work from any device, especially mobile. See More

Top Con

Very unreliable

Desktop client constantly crashes. See More

Top Pro

Extended functionality via apps

Third party Drive applications running in Chrome or Android can add functionality such as image/video editing, project management, flowchart creation, etc. See More

Top Con

No universal Windows app

Top Pro

Indexes images

You can search images by object, place, or face when they've been added to your google photos collection. Google Assistant also helps you find screenshots that could be archived, images that aren't in the correct orientation and pictures that would work well as animations or albums. See More

Top Con

Doesn't integrate well with OS

Top Pro

Cheap for extra storage

$1.99 per 100GB, for up to 16TB. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux; Android; iOS

WPS has the best compatibility with MS Office files of all major office suites that support Linux. See More

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score 234 · Answer 4

WPS Office‎

Top Pro

Excellent Microsoft Office compatibility

Top Con

Lacks ODF support

WPS Office does not support importing or exporting OpenDocument Format, the default file format of LibreOffice and OpenOffice. See More

Top Pro

Ribbon-like UI

WPS is the only Linux office suit to offer a Ribbon-like UI for better ease of use. Although, if you wish to keep using a classic drop-down menu style UI, you can. See More

Top Con

Proprietary Software

Although some versions/programs are free to download, they're all proprietary licenses utilizing a freeware model. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform desktop and mobile

Available on Windows, Linux, iOS and Android. See More

Top Con

No equation editor in Linux

Equation editor for Linux has been "under development" for several years with no real additional info from the developers. Safe to say it's just not going to happen. No equation editor is a deal breaker for some, which is a shame. Otherwise this office suite performs very well. See More

Top Pro

Free version

WPS comes in three flavors: Free, Standard ($49.95) and Professional ($69.95). See More

Top Con

Chinese software

Might be a security problem for some end-users. See More

Top Pro

Tabbed interface

Instead of open up a new instance of the program for each document, WPS opens each document as a separate tab, allowing for easy switching between them. See More

Top Con

No HiDPI support

Problematic with 4K screens. See More

Top Pro

Multilingual

WPS Office is available in more than 40 languages. See More

Top Con

Installing can be a hassle

A .deb file is offered, but missing fonts can be a problem. See More

Top Pro

Pdf viewer

Has support to view pdf files. See More

Top Con

Only the basic office tools

WPS has software for word-processing, spreadsheets and presentations. No tools for database management, note-taking, graphics, etc. See More

Top Pro

Integrated backups

WPS will automatically save your document over time to prevent data loss. See More

Top Con

Default font styles are not pretty

Top Pro

Encryption support

WPS allows you to encrypt and password-lock files. See More

Top Con

No hyphenaton, no help or real forum

Lack of hyphenation in Writer is a terrible mistake. Reading the few forums about it will let you know that it breaks the words without rules and without hyphens in any language. The question was stated in 2013 and still doesn't have an answer. Their help system practically doesn't exist, everything leads you to a 404 page. Maybe this issue could be easily resolved by developers with a plugin or something like that, but the Linux community doesn't show interest for the product. See More

Top Pro

View documents side by side

You can split the window allowing to view different parts of the same document, or open two documents for comparison, also imitating Microsoft Word. See More

Top Con

Dumps configuration files onto the desktop that are visible to the user

Each of the apps in the suite has a .desktop configuration file that is created at first launch and remains thereafter. Removal results in re-creation. See More

Top Pro

Clean edition when sharing your document

Text modifications can be verified at the margins, not mixed with the text, imitating Microsoft Word. On the other side, LibreOffice/OpenOffice don't have this very useful feature. See More

Top Con

CON Some Ms Fonts are not available (ie Ariel)

Might be able to download them, but I havent really looked yet. See More

Top Pro

Smooth integration with many different cloud services at the same time

WPS integrates with multiple cloud service's at once such as Dropbox, One Drive, Google Drive and more. See More

Top Con

Ads

There are in-app ads. See More

Top Pro

Change pdf documents to word

Top Con

Very slow to load

I looks like there is a splash screen, but it doesn't appear until just before the full interface loads, which can be about 20 seconds. It is often slow enough to cause the user to click again and again, resulting in the app loading multiple times in succession. See More

Top Pro

PRO It is not owned by Microsoft

I want to support linux & open source as Im leaving Microsoft because of their greed and instability with updates etc.. (personal preference) See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; Linux; IOS; Android

It can be installed on any computer or mobile device to be used as a native app. See More

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score 53 · Answer 5

SSuite Office Online

Top Pro

This office suite can be installed and run as a native desktop application

Top Pro

It is an online and offline office suite that is also a Progressive Web Application

It is a full-featured web-based office suite with the full complement of add-on functions and applications to replace legacy desktop software. See More

Top Pro

Now with added Google Fonts

This online office suite now has Google fonts to make it fully cross-platform independent. Up to 10 new System and Google fonts has been added. No other office suite has this capability. See More

Top Pro

No .NET or Java

Does not depend on .NET or Java. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; Linux; Android; iOS; ChromeOS; Web-Based

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score 21 · Answer 6

LaTeX

Top Pro

Lets you focus on the content

LaTeX handles the design so you can focus on the content See More

Top Con

Steep learning curve

LaTeX is not what you'd consider easy to use, and while there's plenty of documentation out there, much of it is rather opaque unless you're a seasoned TeXnician. See More

Top Pro

High-quality typesetting by default

There's a reason that scholarly journals often require the use of LaTeX for articles printed in their pages, and it's because the quality of the output is that good. Universities often require, or at least encourage, the use of LaTeX for graduate theses and dissertations for this same reason. See More

Top Con

Single-threaded design

LaTeX is single-threaded by design, since it must necessarily work sequentially to produce each page as it is laid out by the typesetting engine. This makes it dependent on the power of just one individual core in your multi-core computer setup and so migrating to a machine with more cores won't necessarily make your LaTeX documents build faster. See More

Top Pro

Free open source software

Licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License See More

Top Con

Not a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor

LaTeX uses the paradigm what-you-see-is-what-you-mean instead. See More

Top Pro

Editor-independent

You can edit LaTeX sources in any text editor. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Works on every major OS and gives exactly the same quality output everywhere you go. LaTeX on macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD, and even Mac OS 9 has exactly the same output for a given set of sources. See More

Top Pro

Effortless math input

The whole reason that TeX -- and, by extension, LaTeX -- exists is to give people an easy way (well, for some value of "easy") to produce high-quality documents with properly laid out mathematical expressions and text in them. As long as you know the language (or have a reference sheet handy), you can include mathematical expressions in your document with little to no extra effort needed on your part. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; Linux, Mac

LibreOffice includes applications for word-processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database management. See More

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score 629 · Answer 7

LibreOffice

Top Pro

Comprehensive suite of applications

Top Con

LibreOffice Base requires Java

If you need to use Base, it requires Java. See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

LibreOffice is available for free with code available here. It's licensed under LGPL v3 with new contributions dual-licensed under MPL. See More

Top Con

Not fully compatible to MSOffice

It's not fully compatible with MSOffice and often breaks documents. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

All major operating systems are supported, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux (Arch, Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu, Suse). See More

Top Con

Track Changes needs to be improved

Collaborating on a single document is difficult. Track Changes makes the document hard to read as both edited and deleted text is displayed, it's not possible to print comments, tracked differences between document versions are sub-optimal and there's no system for accepting/rejecting changes. See More

Top Pro

Multilingual

It is available in more than 110 languages. See More

Top Con

Documentation is out of date

Good luck turning off autocorrect, because the place where the documentation says that option is doesn't exist. See More

Top Pro

Font embedding support

Font embedding ensures that the document will display correctly whether or not the target machine has that specific font installed. See More

Top Con

No good video editing for presentations

Top Pro

High compatibility with MS Office

Possible to use in corporations. See More

Top Con

Won't work with themes

It does not work with custom themes due to all the different wrappers involved. See More

Top Pro

Portable version

LibreOffice offers a version of the suite that does not require installation. It can be kept on a thumb stick to ensure that you have an office suite on whichever machine you choose to use. See More

Top Con

Needs a lot of system resources

It's a large office package that needs a lot of drive space and system memory. See More

Top Pro

Encryption support

LibreOffice allows encrypting and password-locking files. See More

Top Con

Master slide management in Impress not up to mark

As of version 6, the master slide management is not as good as PowerPoint in Windows. See More

Top Pro

LibreOffice can take from OpenOffice, but not the other way around

Due to licensing each office suite uses, only a one-way transfer of code is possible, offering more long-term potential for LibreOffice over OpenOffice. See More

Top Con

Does not run as stable as OnlyOffice

It runs fine until it crashes. Users have experienced multiple crashes when using the cursor to select text in the writer, running in Kubuntu 18.04. See More

Top Pro

The de-facto standard

Being able to tell new people that the FOSS community has an actual default office suite matters. It shows that, despite the bewildering number of options, there can be a clear winner. See More

Top Con

Ribbon is experimental

Top Pro

Presentations can have 3D models embeded within them

Impress supports 3D models in gITF format. See More

Top Con

Poor desktop integration

Since it is written in Java it does not integrate nicely with the operation systems theme, icons or dialogs. See More

Top Pro

Ribbon design

Since 5.3, LibreOffice offers a Ribbon design view (similar to Microsoft Office) (check here). See More

Top Con

Restricted license

LibreOffice uses a more restrictive license than OpenOffice, which makes it almost impossible to backport features to OpenOffice. See More

Top Pro

Lots of extensions and dictionaries

Has many extensions that can add additional features to LibreOffice. See More

Top Con

Ugly interface

Ungly interface compared to others office solutions, like WPS office. See More

Top Pro

The most user-friendly option

To attract new people to FOSS, having an office suite that is as user-friendly as LibreOffice is a must. See More

Top Con

No ability to access online brokerage accounts for trading

No ability to access trading and brokerage accounts via Calc to conduct automatic buying/selling like you can in MS Excel. See More

Top Pro

Multiple themes

Many icon themes available to customise the look and get consistent look with the OS. See More

Top Con

Poor stability

Consistently crashes while editing. Absolutely unreliable. See More

Top Con

No Quickstart

Quickstart was removed from the Linux application. Now every time you open a file it will take at least 2,5 seconds to open. See More

Top Con

Steady update

Specs

Platforms:Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD

License:MPL, GPLv3 or LGPLv3

Word processing:Yes

Evolution is one of the few Linux desktop e-mail clients that's supports exchange servers. See More

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score 232 · Answer 8

Evolution

Top Pro

Supports exchange servers

Top Con

Can't choose different settings for each mail account

Settings have to applied to all mail accounts. See More

Top Pro

Great integration with Gnome environment

Top Con

Poor integration in any non-GNOME desktop

It is written with GNOME in mind. See More

Top Pro

Manages contacts, tasks, calendar and memos as well

Top Con

Only available on Linux

If you have to switch to another platform for whatever reason, you will need to search for a different email client. See More

Top Pro

HTML rendering is great

Of the many email clients available on GNU/Linux, Evolution has the best HTML renderer. It renders HTML and the entire email content exactly like it would appear on a full blown web browser. Not many email clients are capable of doing that. See More

Top Con

limited configuration options

cannot format date as preferred See More

Top Pro

Clean interface with 2 layout variants

Going to View > Preview has the option of switching between "Classical View" and "Vertical View". See More

Top Con

limited configuration options

cannot format date as preferred See More

Top Pro

Good support for Google's services

Top Con

RAM heavy

Very heavy on RAM usage. See More

Top Pro

Excellent GPG support

The integration with GPG is excellent. You can sign, encrypt, decrypt, authenticate and verify GPG signatures and GPG signed/encrypted email messages. All of that is just a setting away. See More

Specs

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score 196 · Answer 9

ONLYOFFICE

Top Con

Web app

It is a text editor that is running in a browser window, how can you trust this? Not to mention that it needs a lot more system resources than native apps. See More

Top Pro

Available for Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, and Android

ONLYOFFICE offers desktop applications for Linux, Windows, and MacOS that can be connected to the web-based solution for document sharing and collaboration. See More

Top Pro

High MS Office compatibility

Highly compatible with .docx, .xlsx, .pptx as well as with .odf. See More

Top Pro

Collaboration capabilities

Top Pro

Can be used as a web app

ONLYOFFICE offers a web-based office suite that can be deployed on your own server using various deployment options, including Docker script and virtual machines with the software pre-installed. See More

Top Pro

Has a portable version

ONLYOFFICE portable works on almost every Linux distribution. See More

Top Pro

Advanced work with math equations

Top Pro

Integration with Nextcloud

Easy integration with Nextcloud for collaborative work. See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

ONLYOFFICE is distributed under AGPL v.3 license with the source code available on GitHub. See More

Top Pro

Support for add-ons (plugins)

Specs

Platforms:Web-based (Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Android-clients)

It isn't immediately obvious how to do this, but the instructions are here. As of 13 June 2018, the icons/screenshots on that page look different than what can be seen under Evince v3.18.2, but the devs have been alerted to this discrepancy, and there are requests they make the finding/using of annotations more intuitive than they are now. See More

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score 63 · Answer 10

Evince

Top Pro

Free and open source software

Top Con

Scrolling is not smooth

Top Pro

Can annotate a pdf

Top Con

Window can't be resized

You can only read in a small box or fullscreen, no way to manually size window. See More

Top Pro

Can find a word in a pdf

Top Con

Tied to GNOME

Comes with all those weird things like popovers and clientside windows. See More

Top Pro

Supports touchpad gestures

Top Con

Keyboard shortcuts cannot be rebound

Top Pro

Good integration with Gnome desktop

Top Con

Thumbs not working

Scroll once, and all thumbs in the side panel are gone. See More

Top Pro

Supports touch interaction

Supports touch, including drag and pinch to zoom. See More

Top Con

Poor UI

Since version 3 it is almost unusable. See More

Top Pro

Can play embedded video

To my knowlegde, the only PDF reader on Linux that can play embeded video (unfortunately not in presentation mode, which is a major drawdack). See More

Top Con

Unicode Problems

Some languages other than English do not render correctly See More

Top Pro

Search results list

Click/tap the magnifying class in the top bar. See More

Top Con

Adding annotations isn't as intuitive as it should be

Instructions can be found here. Specifically, a user should be able to select a word or block of text, then right-click and see highlight/add note options in the drop-down menu. Currently, this option isn't available (as of Evince v3.18.2 / 13th June 2018). See More

SoftMaker office can open doc(x), xls(x), and ppt(x) files without messing up formatting. See More

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score 84 · Answer 11

SoftMaker Office/FreeOffice

Top Pro

Great interoperability with Microsoft Office

Top Con

Proprietary software

Although some versions/programs are free to download, they're all proprietary licenses utilizing a freeware model. See More

Top Pro

Has a free version

A free version, called SoftMaker FreeOffice, is available. FreeOffice is a stripped down version of SoftMaker Office, with less features, templates and interface polish, but it still is feature-packed and with the same excellent import and export filters that enable opening/saving Microsoft Office formats faithfully. See More

Top Con

Free version needs registration

The free version needs to be registered with a valid email adress. See More

Top Pro

EU based company

Follows the the General Data Protection Regulation of the EU. See More

Top Con

The regular paid version is not free for students as it is for teachers

For students to use it, there needs to be a free student license for the regular (with . docx support) version. See More

Top Pro

Multi-platform

Works on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. See More

Top Con

Breaks icon themes

On Linux it breaks all icon themes by modifying them. See More

Top Pro

Low on dependencies

On Linux it avoids the common widget toolkits which makes it really lightweight compared to other office suites. See More

Top Con

It's not Microsoft Office and it never will be

Use SoftMaker Office only if you want basic MS Office-like features. Once you delve deeper into the software the omissions become glaringly obvious. See More

Top Pro

Configurable user interface

Includes the possibility to use Ribbons or classical Menus. See More

Top Pro

Free technical support

If you face any issues, you can always use the technical support by developer SoftMaker, it's free. See More

Top Pro

EPUB export included

You can create high-quality e-books in EPUB format easily. See More

Top Pro

Documentation

Even the FreeOffice version includes a Handbook in PDF. See More

Top Pro

Free for teachers

The regular paid version is free for teachers. See More

Top Pro

Closed source

It might be true that open source can help with bug fixes and new features but at the same time it makes your code visible and vunerable to anyone who is interested. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; macOS, Linux, Android

Licensed under Apache License. See More

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score 64 · Answer 12

Apache OpenOffice

Top Pro

Free and open source

Top Con

No copyleft

It's good for developers but bad for openoffice for example: libreoffice relicensed it under GPL now libreoffice can integrate all changes made to openoffice but openoffice is unable to integrate improvements from libreoffice. See More

Top Pro

Comprehensive suite of applications

Apache OpenOffice includes applications for word-processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database management. See More

Top Con

Dead project

The project looks dead. They can't close even serious security vulnerabilities. You might want to use Libreoffice instead. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

OpenOffice is available on Windows, Mac OS, and *nix systems. See More

Top Con

Documentation is lacking

OpenOffice documentation is incomplete and language is highly technical. See More

Top Pro

Multilingual

OpenOffice is available in 170+ languages. See More

Top Pro

No CopyLeft

Unlike LibreOffice, its Grandfather OpenOffice is real open software for anyome. See More

Top Pro

Full compatibility with Microsoft

Fully compatible with Microsoft formats - from the oldest to the latest. See More

Top Pro

Quickstart

It has quickstart on Linux, a feature that makes opening a file blazing fast. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; Linux; Android; WP

Office 365 is laid out the same way with a similar ribbon interface that will be instantly comfortable to long-time Microsoft Office users. See More

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score 39 · Answer 13

Office 365

Top Pro

Easy to transition from MS Office

Top Con

Proprietary

Uses proprietary software. See More

Top Pro

Speech to text dictation

Linux never got it together See More

Top Con

Unusable for business in the EU

Cloud applications are mostly incompatible with the EU general data protection regulation. See More

Top Pro

Excellent integration and compatibility with MS Office desktop applications

Top Con

Dependant on having an Internet connection

Top Pro

Allows for real-time collaboration

Multiple people can work on the same document at the same time. See More

Top Con

Has only a fraction of Microsoft Office functionality

Office 365 is not a complete replacement for Microsoft Office. The most advanced functionality still can only be found on the desktop. See More

Top Pro

No installation required

Top Con

Cloud dependent

Does not edit local files, they have to be synced first. See More

Top Con

Expensive

$35/user/mo. See More

Specs

Platforms:Webapp; iOS; Android

Word processing:Yes

Notetaking:Available separately

Spreadsheets:Yes

Zoho Docs has 2 paid plans - $5/user/month and $8/user/month that add additional functionality and increase the storage limit. Compared to standalone purchases, the subscription fees can quickly rack up, especially since they are on a per user basis. See More

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score 18 · Answer 14

Zoho Docs

Top Con

Can get expensive quickly

Top Pro

Allows for real-time collaboration

Multiple people can work on the same document at the same time. See More

Top Pro

No installation required

While Zoho Docs offers native applications for desktop and mobile, you can choose to use the webapp which doesn't require you to download anything and can be accessed from anywhere where there's an Internet connection and a modern web browser. See More

Top Pro

Reasonable MS Office compatibility

Specs

Platforms:Webapp

Word processing:Yes

Notetaking:Yes

You can use Polaris Office on your Android to do all of the things that you would use Microsoft Office for on a computer. Beyond just editing Word documents, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint, users and print their work to PDF. See More

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score 8 · Answer 15

Polaris Office

Top Con

Trouble displaying reports

Top Pro

Word processing, spreadsheets and presentation software included

Top Con

Formatting Issues

Some users have reported that when they create documents on Polaris Office and then try to edit them on a PC, the format gets "screwy." See More

Top Pro

Modern UI

Polaris Office's user interface is extremely clean and user friendly. For the amount of features, they did a great job maintaining a sleek appearance. See More

Top Con

No fucking fonts

Top Pro

Free

Top Pro

Easily share documents with friends

Files can be shared through Polaris Office's cloud, an external cloud service, or through email. See More

Top Pro

Allows opening files from the cloud

Polaris Office supports DropBox, Box, Google Drive, and even has its own cloud service. When you edit documents, they will be the same on every device you access them on. See More