Office Suites (178 programs)

Pros: Real-time collaboration. Offers pre-made templates. Easy conversion of .pages files.

Cons: Works best within Apple ecosystem.

Pros: More elegant in feel and look to MS Office. Lots of templates to choose from. Keynote produces stunning cinematic presentations. Opens MS Office documents.

Cons: Installation takes a long time. Can result in incompatibility problems when opening documents from different versions of MS Office.

Pros: A cost-effective option. Versatile and easy to use. Armed with basic and advanced text processing features.

Cons: Rather plain-looking interface.

Pros: Has a single library. Powerful search function. Simple interface. Easy exporting to WordPress.

Cons: Style editing is done through Markdown. Must manually separate chapters when importing. Exporting requires CSS knowledge. Not good for story development.

Pros: Elegant interface. Edits in RTF format for flexibility. Lots of powerful features. Good with languages.

Cons: Takes a long time to load documents. Lacks some advanced features.

Pros: Exports to PDF. Very similar in look to MS Office. Integration with Android and Windows Mobile.

Cons: Spell checkers in other languages missing. No toolbar customisation.

Pros: Free to use. Opens Microsoft Office documents including Word and Excel. Includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program. Good alternative to Microsoft Office.

Cons: Slow at opening documents and can be unresponsive sometimes. Too many buttons and settings. Based mainly on Java.