Microsoft Word Alternatives and Similar Software

Alternatives to Microsoft Word for Windows, Mac, Web, Linux, iPhone and more. Filter by license to discover only free or Open Source alternatives. This list contains a total of 25+ apps similar to Microsoft Word.

Microsoft Word is a commercial word document processor for Windows. If you're looking for more info about Microsoft Word like screenshots, reviews and comments you should visit our info page about it. Below you find the best alternatives.

The list of alternatives was last updated: 9/8/2020 8:11:00 PM

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Atlantis Word Processor

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 range of your word processing tasks, – from simple to most complex. A basic version of Atlantis Word Processor, called Atlantis Nova, is available for free download.
- Super lightweight (5mb!) and it is feature-rich. Just do it. blalond • Jan 2019 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Superfast, supercompact, packed with tons of features, and offers plenty of customization options. Guest • Sep 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
Freemium Windows
Distraction free writing Lightweight Portable Export to ePub ... Spell checking Add a feature

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Byword

Byword is designed to make writing more enjoyable with Markdown on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac iPhone iPad
MarkDown support Distraction free writing Dropbox integration Grammar check ... Markdown Works Offline Synchronization Text expansion Add a feature

49 Like
Word Online

Word Online, part of Office Online, is the online version of Microsoft Word. Create, edit and share. Work with other at the same time.

Free Personal Web Chrome OS
Guest editing permissions Web-Based Add a feature

15 Like
Dictanote

Switch effortlessly between using the keyboard and your voice to type out notes. Work smarter and more productively with fast, accurate dictation and transcription using Dictanote. Dictanote supports over 40 different languages and 52 different dialects spoken which covers over 80% of the world's population! You can also purchase in-app Pro upgrade which lets you create multiple notes and save them on Dictanote cloud.
- It has a WYSIWYG editor similar to MS Word and its online. anils • Dec 2016 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome OS ... Chrome
Dictation Speech to text Notetaking Works Offline ... Portable Speech Recognition Voice Commands Voice Notes Voice recognition WYSIWYG Support Add a feature

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Walling

Working on a project, researching a topic or writing an article? Walling makes it easy to break down your ideas, refine them and visually organize them. Brain dump with ease Unlike linear documents, with Walling you can throw out your ideas into Bricks and worry later about organizing and revising them. See the big picture With your ideas side by side, Walling empowers you to step back and get a high level understanding of what you're working on.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Web
Group collaboration Note organization Notetaking Online collaboration ... Real time collaboration Task Management Team Collaboration To-Do management Todos Wiki Add a feature

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Calligra Words

Words is an intuitive word processor and desktop publisher application. With it, you can create informative and attractive documents with pleasure and ease. Features: Frame-based editing. Allows embedding of Documents. Customization of user interface. Includes all features expected from a modern word processor. ODT (Open Document Text) support.
- It lacks many features and the UI is a mess. Centaro • Jan 2020
Free Open Source Linux KDE
Desktop publishing Add a feature

21 Like
FileOne

FileOne is an organizer that combines and integrates your notes, documents, contacts, email, photo's/images, calendar and agenda with multimedia. It is an hybrid form of a note taking organizer with multimedia and email functionality. A desktop replacement for OneNote and EverNote with more functionality but much easier to use. It runs on all desktop versions of Windows, Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Mac OSX (Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra).
- Editor is easier and faster on huge documents. Guest • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Less overhead in functions, faster in saving large documents, easier to encrypt, can handle multimedia combined with its native documents. Guest • May 2018
- Tree at the left and its features to combine rich text with other data. Guest • May 2018
- Multiplatform support for macOs, Linux and Windows. FileOne • May 2018
Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
AES encryption Program Launchers Built-in editor Built-in media player ... Built-in Note Taker Integrated Email Client Integrated Search Integrated Web Browser Non-cloud solution Notetaking Portable Tree view Add a feature

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Docs To Go

Create, view and edit native Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files * View, edit and create Word 2007/2008 files * View, edit and create Excel 2007/2008 files * View, edit and create PowerPoint 2007/2008 files View native Adobe PDF files * Supports embedded graphics and fonts for desktop-like viewing * Supports password-protected PDFs * Supports 40-bit and 128-bit encrypted PDFs Decompress Zip Archives

Freemium Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad
Compatible with Microsoft Office Spreadsheets Add a feature

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AbleWord

AbleWord is a very capable word processing application that can read and write most popular document formats including PDF's. It is fully featured, supporting image formatting, tables, headers & footers and includes spell checking and print preview functions. Best of all it is totally free even for commercial use. AbleWord can read and write the following file types: Microsoft Word (doc, docx) Adobe PDF (pdf) Rich Text (rtf) Plain Text (txt) HTML (html, htm)

Free Windows
PDF Editor Convert PDF to Word document Writing tool Add a feature

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Framapad

- Create a pad. - Start at write your text - and invite your employees. - Each participant is distinguished by a color - and can chat with the group. - If necessary, restore an old version from history - and when your work is done, export it.
- It is an alternative to google docs rather than MS Office Word because it is online. A great tool for collaborative work. Guest • Jul 2019
Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted
Collaborative writing Embeddable Integrated Chat Online collaboration ... Real time collaboration Export to PDF Version and Source control Add a feature

5 Like