App Profile: Collabora Office

BlahBlahBlah2005

Rating: 3/5

I like the design, which I find to be intuitive and comparable to MS Word and Google Docs, and privacy of course, but there are some fixes needed. It duplicated all of my documents for some reason. It takes a long time for them to load and open. Sometimes when saving a document, the “saving” icon sits there forever, and I need to close the app in order to keep working. There’s no way to easily save & name a new document: I have to save it, close it, and then rename it in the folder. Opening a downloaded PDF that had comments was chaos and pretty much crashed the app. It’s enough that I’m looking for other options.

PowerUserPro

Rating: 2/5

If you try to use this app in the natural way you would use any other app, you will quickly lose all of your work! Like, if you click “new, document” and type up a text document, the most obvious button to push is the check mark at the top left. You think it has saved your work, so then you click the back arrow at the top left. But is your work saved? No! Not only is it not saved but it is permanently deleted! Let’s try again, type new document, go to hamburger button top right, now you click on “save.” Surely now it is saved and it is now safe to click the back button at the top left? Wrong again! Your work was NOT saved and it is completely lost again! The only way to save your work is to find “export” and export it has something like a .doc or .pdf. I recommend doing this first thing, before you start typing. If you do this first it will save correctly. A good app would make it nearly impossible to accidentally lose your work. With this app, losing your work is the default, if you are not extremely careful. The right way would be, when clicking “new document” it should prompt you to type a title for the file and select what type of document/file it is going to be. That step would take care of the exporting first thing and then it would be saved before you even start writing

7sidedleaf

Rating: 4/5

I’m not sure why there’s so many bad reviews but in the latest versions it’s really good! Plus with open source transparency we don’t have data invasive companies like Microsoft/Google scanning all our documents. Only reason why I dropped it down to 4 stars is small things that can be improved. Copying and pasting text from elsewhere sometimes has text being white, so I have to manually highlight the text on my own and change it to black. In most iOS text editing apps holding down space and dragging finger left (or any said direction) allows for more precise cursor movement than tapping. Kind of like using the space key as a trackpad. When holding down, the paste option appears which is good, but we also need a select all feature in case we want to copy quickly and send elsewhere for quick review! Although this can still be done by manually highlighting the entire document on its own, this small QoL feature would make a huge difference!! All of these minor issues have workarounds so the app is still 100% functional, although incorporating them would make the app more feature rich with modern QoL improvements and would easily bump this app up to a 5 star rating!