Apache OpenOffice Writer Alternatives and Similar Software

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Microsoft Office Word

Commercial by Microsoft |
Mac, Windows

Microsoft Word is Microsofts word processing software. It is a component of the Microsoft Office suite; however, it is also sold as a standalone product.

Office & Productivity word-processing, microsoft-office
+1 more microsoft-office-suite
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Google Drive - Docs

Free by Google |
iPhone, iPad, Android + Tablet, Online

Google Docs is an online word processor that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other people in real time. Here's what you can do with Google Docs: • Upload a Word document...

Office & Productivity word-processing, online-collaboration, word
+3 more documents, writer, docs
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LibreOffice - Writer

Open Source by The Document Foundation |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Writer has all the features you need from a modern, full-featured word processing or desktop publishing tool. It's simple enough for a quick memo, but powerful enough to create complete books with...

Office & Productivity portable, word-processing, writing, libreoffice
+1 more word-document-processing
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AbiWord

Open Source by AbiSource |
Mac, Windows, Linux

AbiWord is a free software word processor. The name "AbiWord" (pronounced "Abby Word") is derived from the root of the Spanish word "abierto", meaning "open". It runs on...

Office & Productivity portable http://portableapps.com/apps/office/abiword_portable 15MB installed multilingual, multi-language, word-processing, word
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iWork - Pages

Commercial by Apple |
Mac, iPhone, iPad

Pages is a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout tool for the Mac. It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works.

Office & Productivity word-processing
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Scrivener

Commercial by Literature & Latte |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Scrivener is a word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers. It won't try to tell you how to write - it just makes all the...

Business & Commerce, Office & Productivity project-management, notes, note-taking
+2 more word-processing, writing
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Zoho Writer

Free* by AdventNet, Inc |
Online

An online word processor that lets you create and edit documents in your web browser and save them in the cloud, so that you can share them with anyone. Zoho can allow multiple users to work on a document...

Office & Productivity word-processing, word, docs, zoho
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Bean

Open Source by Bean |
Mac

Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of...

Office & Productivity word-processing, word, discontinued
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WriteRoom

Commercial by Hog Bay Software (Jesse Grosjean) |
Mac, iPhone, iPad

For Mac & iPhone users to write without distractions. WriteRoom is a full screen writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you're used to, WriteRoom lets you focus on writing. Requires...

Office & Productivity notes, word-processing, writing, share-documents
+3 more no-distraction, writing-environment, full-screen
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WordPad

Commercial by Microsoft |
Windows

WordPad is a simple word processor that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onwards. It is the successor of Windows 3.1s Write. Wordpad in Windows 7 now includes the...

Office & Productivity word-processing, word, rich-text-format
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Byword

Commercial by Metaclassy, Lda. |
Mac, iPhone, iPad

The easiest way to write Markdown and rich text on your Mac. Features • Fast • Well designed • Open any plain text file • MultiMarkdown smart editing • Comprehensive keyboard shortcuts • Soothing light...

Office & Productivity dropbox-support, markdown, word-processing, typing
+1 more distraction-free-writing
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Jarte

Freemium |
Windows

The Jarte word processor uses Microsofts reliable, fast starting WordPad word processing engine while adding many features missing in WordPad. Jarte can save files as .doc, .rtf, or .txt. It has all the...

Development, Office & Productivity text-editor, notepad, word-processing, word, doc
+2 more rich-text-format, wordpad
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TextMaker

Freemium by SoftMaker |
Windows, Windows Mobile, Android + Tablet, Linux

TextMaker is a Microsoft Word-compatible word processor, part of SoftMaker Office. It runs lean (using around 12MB of RAM on my system) and is surprisingly feature rich. The furiously fast word...

Office & Productivity portable Can also be run directly off your USB flash drive., word-processing, spell-checker
+3 more built-in-pdf-converter, autocomplete, microsoft-office-compatible
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IBM Lotus Symphony Documents

Free by IBM Lotus |
Mac, Windows, Linux

IBM Lotus Symphony Documents lets you create, edit, share, and save word processing documents. IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ is a richly-featured set of productivity tools that are intuitive and easy to...

Office & Productivity word, word-processing
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Kingsoft Writer

Freemium by Kingsoft Office |
Windows

Kingsoft Writer is the word processor included in the Kingsoft Office Suite. You can use it to do everything, from decking out a resume to writing an essay with plentiful contents, pictures, diagrams and...

Office & Productivity word-processing, tabbed-interface, word-to-pdf
+1 more built-in-pdf-converter
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TeXmacs

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured...

latex, gnu, tex, latex-editor, tex-editor
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Atlantis Word Processor

Freemium by Rising Sun Solutions Inc. |
Windows, Windows Metro

Atlantis is an innovative, no-nonsense word processor carefully designed with the end-user in mind. Compact, fast-loading, but still powerful and efficient, Atlantis will be the perfect companion for a wide...

Office & Productivity portable, word-processing
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Mellel

Commercial by Redlex |
Mac

A Multilingual word processor that lets you paste images, objects and make tables

Office & Productivity word-processing, mellel
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Microsoft Word Viewer

Free by Microsoft |
Windows

View, print and copy Word documents, even if you dont have Word installed. The Word Viewer, together with the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats, allows you...

word, view-doc
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NisusWriter

Commercial by Nisus Software Inc |
Mac

A light wordprocessor for the rest of us Localized in Danish, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Spanish

Office & Productivity word-processing, microsoft-office