ONLYOFFICE Documents

A few years ago I transferred my Mac-based office out of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and into the Apple office suite—Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Safari, Mail, Notes, and Reminders. For the most part this has been a smooth transition, but every once in a while I run into a situation where I need to produce a “native” Microsoft Office file. This is especially true now that I have moved all my work off the Mac OS and onto iOS. I don’t want to pay $100 annually to have the full MS 365 features at my disposal. But the free versions that Microsoft offers on the web and the app are too underpowered to do much of anything beyond the very basics. That’s where OnlyOffice comes in. This is just my experience, but in using it over the last several years, I’ve never run into a compatibility issue with it, either in opening MS files or saving files in MS file formats. Plus it is a fully featured suite of apps that is more tightly integrated internally than MS 365. And it’s completely free for individual users, with a very reasonable upgrade path for workgroups of three or more staff members. I’ve tried all the other alternatives to MS 365 for iOS, and I can’t make the same claims for any one of them. As long as OnlyOffice continues to deliver its exemplary functionality and compatibility with MS 365, it’s the office suite I would recommend to any person or organization that wants Microsoft 365 features and interoperability but doesn’t want to continue shelling out onerous subscription fees for a tool set for functionality, compatibility, and integration that I can get elsewhere for much less.

This application is remarkable. I have informed friends and colleagues, and they appreciate the suite of ONLYOFFICE applications. Other reviewers should allow the developers time to resolve issues, and I am pleased to report that these have been addressed, with further improvements anticipated. The software performs exceptionally well across Mac, iPhone, tablet, Windows, and Kubuntu Linux platforms. I am actively promoting this application because it is important for others to be aware of its capabilities. Thank you to the developers for resolving the issues and for their ongoing efforts in enhancing this software.

It is very unstable. I start to use this cross-platform office alternative because I have windows PC in the office, Ubuntu PC at home and a ubuntu laptop in the cleanroom. I record all my experiments processes and results in a spreadsheet. Then, it crashed yesterday when I tried to use this app in my iphone. The worst thing is that even I am sure I saved it each time when I finished it and reopened the file when i wanted to modify it (of course, because I work in 3 different computers and an iphone). After it crashed, everything went to zero. The file is restored to its original version which is empty when I create it on 9/3. Interesting, why shouldn’t it simply be the most recent version. That should be most straightforward. The data is really really important for me, and it takes another 3 days to measure it. It can be a general bug for recent onlyoffice software or only a bug of this iOS version app. But anyway, I will not use it any more. It is really a disaster. This is the first time I want to give a zero star.