computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computer, computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and the development of both computer hardware, hardware and softw ...

, an

office suite Productivity software (also called personal productivity software or office productivity software) is application software used for producing information (such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, digital paintin ...

is a collection of

productivity software Productivity software (also called personal productivity software or office productivity software) is application software used for producing information (such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, digital painting ...

usually containing at least a

word processor A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features. Early word processors were stand-alone devices dedicated to the function, but current word ...

spreadsheet A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data entered in c ...

and a

presentation program In computing, a presentation program (also called presentation software) is a software package used to display information in the form of a slide show. It has three major functions: * an editor that allows text to be inserted and formatted * ...

. There are many different brands and types of office suites.

Office suites

Free and open source suites

* AndrOpen Office – available for Android *

Apache OpenOffice Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is an open-source software, open-source office suite, office productivity software suite. It is one of the successor projects of OpenOffice.org and the designated successor of IBM Lotus Symphony. It was a close cousin of ...

– available for Linux, macOS and Windows *

Calligra Suite Calligra Suite is a Graphic art software, graphic art and office suite by KDE. It is available for Desktop computer, desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones. It contains applications for word processor, word processing, spreadsheets, prese ...

– available for FreeBSD, Linux, macOS and Windows *

Collabora Online Collabora Online is an open source online office suite based on LibreOffice, enabling web-based collaborative real-time editing of word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and vector graphics. Optional apps are available for deskto ...

– available for Android, ChromeOS, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, macOS, online and Windows *

LibreOffice LibreOffice () is a free and open-source office productivity software suite developed by The Document Foundation (TDF). It was created in 2010 as a fork of OpenOffice.org, itself a successor to StarOffice. The suite includes applications ...

– available for Linux, macOS and Windows, and unofficial: Android, ChromeOS, FreeBSD, Haiku, iOS, iPadOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Solaris *

Nextcloud Nextcloud is a suite of Client–server model, client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. It can integrate with the Collabora Online and OnlyOffice office suites. It can be hosted in the Cloud computing, cloud or On-pre ...

– online collaboration suite, available for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Windows *

ONLYOFFICE OnlyOffice (formerly TeamLab), stylized as ONLYOFFICE, is a free software office suite and ecosystem of collaborative applications. It consists of online editors for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms and PDFs, and the room-base ...

– available for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, online and Windows

Freeware and proprietary suites

* Ability Office – available for Windows *

Google Workspace Google Workspace (formerly G Suite, formerly Google Apps) is a collection of cloud computing, Productivity software, productivity and Collaborative software, collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google. It con ...

– available for Android, ChromeOS, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, macOS, online and Windows * Hancom Office – available for Windows * Ichitaro – a Japanese-language suite available for Windows *

iWork iWork is an office suite of applications created by Apple Inc., Apple for its macOS, iPadOS, and iOS operating systems, and also available cross-platform through the iCloud website. iWork includes the presentation program, presentation applicat ...

– available for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and online *

Lark Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae. Larks have a cosmopolitan distribution with the largest number of species occurring in Africa. Only a single species, the horned lark, occurs in North America, and only Horsfield's bush lark occ ...

– available for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, online Windows, and Android *

Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 (previously called Office 365) is a product family of productivity software, collaboration and Cloud computing, cloud-based Software as a service, services owned by Microsoft. It encompasses online services such as Outlook.com, One ...

– available for Android, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, online and Windows * MobiOffice – available for Android, iOS and Windows * Polaris Office – available for iOS, macOS and Windows *

SoftMaker Office SoftMaker Office is an office suite which aims for compatibility with Microsoft Office. It is available as a one-time purchase, as well as a subscription. A freeware version with a slightly reduced feature set is released under the name ''SoftM ...

– available for Android, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, macOS and Windows * Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware – online content management *

WordPerfect Office WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Alludo, with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the market leader of word processors, disp ...

– available for Windows *

WPS Office WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Fire OS and HarmonyOS developed by the Chinese company Kingsoft Offic ...

– available for Android, iOS, macOS, Linux and Windows * Zoho Office Suite

Discontinued office suites

AppleWorks AppleWorks was an integrated office suite containing a word processor, Database#Database_management_system, database, and spreadsheet. It was developed by Rupert Lissner for Apple Inc., Apple Computer, originally for the Apple II and launched in ...

* Aster*x * AUIS – an office suite developed by

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

and named after

Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie ( , ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the History of the iron and steel industry in the United States, American steel industry in the late ...

* Breadbox Office – DOS software * Corel WordPerfect for DOS * EasyOffice * Hancom Office Suite (formerly ThinkFree Office) * IBM

Lotus SmartSuite SmartSuite is a discontinued office suite from Lotus Software. The company made versions of its office suite for IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows. Status SmartSuite is no longer supported or maintained. SmartSuite used to be in maintenance mode, ...

IBM Lotus Symphony IBM Lotus Symphony is a discontinued software suite, suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, presentations, and other documents and Web browser, browsing the World Wide Web. It was first distributed as commer ...

IBM Works IBM Works is an office suite for the IBM OS/2 operating system. It includes word processing, spreadsheet, database and PIM applications. Originally developed as Legato by IBM UK, it was later taken over by Footprint in Canada ...

– an office suite for the IBM OS/2

operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

Interleaf Interleaf, Inc. was a company that created computer software products for the technical publishing creation and distribution process. Founded in 1981, its initial product was the first commercial document processor that integrated text and graphi ...

* Jambo OpenOffice, an abandoned project to translate the OpenOffice.org project into Swahili *

Lotus Jazz Lotus Jazz is an integrated suite of word processor, spreadsheet, database, graphics, and communication software designed for the Macintosh 512K. It was released in 1985 and retailed for . The name was intended to evoke a group of musicians who ...

– Mac sister product to Lotus Symphony * Lotus Symphony *

Microsoft Works Microsoft Works is a discontinued office suite, productivity software suite developed by Microsoft and sold from 1987 to 2009. Its core functionality includes a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system. Later versions have a ...

NeoOffice NeoOffice is a discontinued office suite for the macOS operating system developed by Planamesa Inc. It was a commercial fork of the free and open source LibreOffice office suite, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, and ...

– available for macOS * Picsel Smart Office *

QuickOffice Quickoffice, Inc. is a discontinued freeware proprietary productivity suite for mobile devices which allows viewing, creating and editing documents, presentations and spreadsheets. It consists of ''Quickword'' (a word processor), ''Quicksheet'' ( ...

* Siag Office * Sim desk – online office suite from Simdesk Technologies, Inc *

StarOffice StarOffice is a discontinued proprietary software, proprietary office suite. Its source code continues today in derived open-source office suites Collabora Online and LibreOffice. StarOffice supported the OpenOffice.org XML file format, as well ...

– continued as open source suite OpenOffice.org then LibreOffice

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