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SoftMaker FreeOffice

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SoftMaker Office for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android – the fast, powerful and compatible office suite.

FreeOffice 2018 PlanMaker running on Windows 10

Cost / License

  • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Android
  • Android Tablet
FreeOffice 2018 TextMaker running on Windows 10
FreeOffice 2018 Presentations running on Windows 10
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1. Microsoft 365 Copilot icon  Compatible with Microsoft Office
  2.  Export to PDF
  3.  Ribbon Interface
  4.  Dark Mode
  5.  Spell Checking
  6.  Works Offline
  7.  Portable
  8.  Export to EPUB
  9.  Integrated Email Client

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: SoftMaker FreeOffice is widely praised for its excellent compatibility with Microsoft Office formats, outperforming competitors like LibreOffice in preserving file integrity and offering unique features such as portable installation and USB compatibility. Users appreciate its user-friendly interface and reasonable pricing for the paid version. However, some negative comments mention concerns over required online activation and misleading practices about free usage. Critiques also include issues with Linux compatibility and reports of software bloat.
Top Positive Comment
bawldiggle
3

Creating PDF with Free Softmaker TextMaker is excellent drag and drop images :D :D ... cannot do that with OO/LO I cannot fault Free Softmaker TextMaker PDF results Fonts are totally stable and reproduce exactly (Softmaker's FlexiPDF is beta, and requires a lot of fine tuning before I will consider it)

Optional MenuBar (laptop) is also brilliant, ribbons are real estate hogs. IMO best of all the alternative office products ... almost. OO and LO seem to stumbling, their Writer to PDF is very unstable/unpredictable

_Created this as a "Comment" but it ended up here in "Reviews" ... _

Top Negative Comment
Anamon
11

Despite being a truly free office suite, FreeOffice requires an online license activation.

I'm fine with developers asking me to supply my e-mail address or set up an account to obtain the software. But online activation is definitely a step too far – one of my main reasons for looking for free software alternatives is exactly so I don't have to put up with crap like that… (Excuse the language, but no gentler terms seem appropriate for that kind of mechanism.)

Galactic Man
Replying to @Anamon

Oct 2025 and I've just run into the license activation begging-for-email box for FREE software. It's long past time developers stopped using their products as an underhand license to advertise at you.

Honigkuchen
0

It's a pretty good office suite. I own the paid version and used it for a long time for its good compatibility with Microsoft office formats, but I don't see its appeal anymore, since better free and open source alternatives exist now (Onlyoffice and Libreoffice).

Peter S.
0

Its text processor plus tables occupy 182 Mb. I could not center an image in it. Could not find a method. Any controls that I used did not produce results.

intp
1

Opens fast, runs well, nice, simple UI. Great basic office suite. Not quite as full-featured as some, but does the job well for the vast majority of use cases in my experience.

antonanton
-2

Suspicious Asian software. Not recommended. Bloated, with very suspicious stuff installed in the system. I had serious problems with its deletion - the uninstallation process took about 15 minutes in my Windows 10 with suddenly appearing terminal windows and similar creepy stuff.

Saig
1

Excellente suite bureautique alternative aux grands classique. J'apprécie particulièrement sa version Androïd qui est similaire en tout point à son itération desktop dans son interface.

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What is SoftMaker FreeOffice?

SoftMaker Office is an office suite for Windows, Linux, Android, Windows Mobile, and Windows CE.

A free version of the suite, SoftMaker FreeOffice, is available for Windows, Linux and Android at freeoffice.com

FreeOffice includes:

TextMaker icon TextMaker , a word processor PlanMaker icon PlanMaker, a spreadsheet application SoftMaker Presentations icon SoftMaker Presentations , a presentation graphics application that is compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint

The package SoftMaker Office Professional includes additional

an Email-client; a Duden spell checker; two Duden dictionaries; BasicMaker, a Win32-only VBA-like programming tool; four Langenscheidt dictionaries.

SoftMaker Office has many functions of the correspondent programs from MS Office, OpenOffice.org or WordPerfect Office and also adds features such as its ability to run off USB flash drives and integrated reference works. It uses not only its own native formats, but is also highly compatible with Microsoft Office file formats. It can read and write Microsoft Office file formats as well as OpenDocument Format (word processor only), RTF and HTML. Export to PDF function is included. Multi-language spell-checking, hyphenation and thesaurus is supported; furthermore an integrated five-language translation dictionary (English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish).

SoftMaker FreeOffice information

  • Developed by

    DE flagSoftMaker

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase ranging between $70 and $100, and / or subscription ranging between $3 and $6 per month + free version with limited functionality.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.5 (12 ratings)

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 19 comments and reviews about SoftMaker FreeOffice, and it has gotten 92 likes

SoftMaker FreeOffice was added to AlternativeTo by manwithcake on and this page was last updated . SoftMaker FreeOffice is sometimes referred to as FreeOffice, SoftMaker Office.