It’s the successor to KOffice, an open-source office suite that was once arguably the best alternative to Microsoft Office available, but Calligra has been eclipsed somewhat by more actively developed software like LibreOffice.Ĭalligra comprises Words (word processor), KEXI (visual database applications creator), Plan (project management application), Sheets (spreadsheet tool), Karbon (vector drawing tool), and Stage (presentation application).Ĭompared to other options in our list, Calligra has a somewhat clunky interface and handles Microsoft Office documents quite poorly.

Fiddly installation if you don’t use PlasmaĬalligra is an office suite from KDE, the international free software community that develops open-source software.

Glacial development speed means infrequent updates.

Runs particularly well on the Plasma desktop environment.

Platform: Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, Windows (beta).

This is more the fault of Microsoft’s convoluted file formats than anything else, but it’s something to be wary of if you need pixel-perfect document layouts. You can import and export Microsoft-format documents, but note that it can cause formatting mistakes. There are mobile apps for Apple and Android devices, so you can access your documents from all your devices wherever you are.Ĭollaboration is also excellent, so you can seamlessly work on the same documents with colleagues without stepping on each other’s toes, and there’s robust versioning so you can roll back to previous versions of documents if need be.

The tools work well in any modern web browser, which makes deployment across an organisation a cinch. These tools include Gmail (email), Drive (cloud storage), Docs (word processing), Sheets (spreadsheets), Slides (presentations), and Meet (video conferencing). It’s an amalgamation of 12 Google tools for a monthly subscription that starts at £4.14 per user a month.

Google Workspace, previously known as G Suite, is a cloud-based productivity suite from internet giant Google.

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