Compare the Top Word Processors for Linux as of August 2025

What are Word Processors for Linux?

Word processors are software applications that allow users to create, edit, and format written documents. They offer a variety of tools and features, such as spell check, font styles, and page layout options. Word processors are commonly used for tasks such as writing essays, creating business reports, or composing emails. They can also save documents in various file formats for easy sharing and printing. Overall, word processors provide a user-friendly platform for creating and managing written content. Compare and read user reviews of the best Word Processors for Linux currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    ONLYOFFICE Docs

    ONLYOFFICE Docs

    Ascensio System SIA

    ONLYOFFICE is an open-source project that offers cloud-based and self-hosted solutions for business of all sizes. The key product is ONLYOFFICE Docs, a secure office suite that seamlessly integrates into the most popular platforms, e.g. Odoo, Alfresco, Confluence, Pipedrive, Redmine, SuiteCRM and more. When integrated, ONLYOFFICE Docs provides the users of your business app with editors for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, PDFs and diagrams. The ONLYOFFICE suite makes it possible to collaborate on office files in real time. The built-in AI assistant is compatible with ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Mistral and other AI providers to ensure a flawless editing experience. You can use Docs within ONLYOFFICE DocSpace, a room-based document collaboration platform that allows you to create dedicated spaces where you can assign access permissions and collaborate with your teammates. With DocSpace, you can store, share and co-edit office files, and even interact with third parties.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    SSuite WordGraph Editor

    SSuite WordGraph Editor

    SSuite Office Software

    SSuite WordGraph is a free and very useful alternative to Microsoft's Word, OpenOffice's Writer, or anything else out there claiming to be the latest and greatest. You don't even have a need for .NET or even JAVA to be installed. This will save you a lot of hard drive space and precious computer resources. Use WordGraph for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book with embedded illustrations, tables of contents, indexes, and bibliographies. WordGraph is a complete and powerful software solution for creating, editing and viewing various types of documents. You can create simple or highly structured documents include graphics, tables, charts, and insert spreadsheets you created. A number of available features give you a fine degree of control over the formatting of text, pages, sections of documents, and also entire documents. Desktop, Portable, and Online Editions Available. Read the "Read Me" document first! Requires: 1024x768 Display Size
    Starting Price: Free
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    WPS Office

    WPS Office

    Kingsoft Office Software Corporation Limited

    Palo Alto-based WPS Office Software is a leading office productivity suite for PC and mobile devices. WPS Office is a high performing, yet considerably more affordable solution, fully compatible and comparable to Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word. The WPS Office suite is available for Windows and Linux-based PCs as well as Android and iOS. WPS Office Software is a subsidiary of Kingsoft Corporation, China's leading Internet services and software company. WPS Office is a lightweight, feature-rich comprehensive office suite with high compatibility. As a handy and professional office software, WPS Office allows you to edit files in Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheet, and PDF to improve your work efficiency.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Truly Office

    Truly Office

    Truly Office

    Truly Office Software is the #1 office productivity suite suitable for PC and mobile devices. It is a high-performing, multi-device that is considerably price friendly than alternatives. Truly Office is fully compatible and comparable to Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Truly Office Suite is available for Windows and Linux-based PCs and Android and iOS. Truly Office is a privacy-first suite with a feature-rich comprehensive office suite with high compatibility. As a handy and professional office software, Truly Office allows you to edit files in Word, Slides, Sheet, and PDF to improve your work efficiency.
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    Starting Price: $34.99
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    Apache OpenOffice

    Apache OpenOffice

    The Apache Software Foundation

    Compatible with other major office suites, Apache OpenOffice is free to download, use, and distribute. Download it now, and get: Apache OpenOffice? Writer a word processor you can use for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book. Calc a powerful spreadsheet with all the tools you need to calculate, analyze, and present your data in numerical reports or sizzling graphics. Impress the fastest, most powerful way to create effective multimedia presentations. Draw lets you produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations. Base lets you manipulate databases seamlessly. Create and modify tables, forms, queries, and reports, all from within Apache OpenOffice. Math lets you create mathematical equations with a graphic user interface or by directly typing your formulas into the equation editor.
    Starting Price: $0
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    LibreOffice

    LibreOffice

    The Document Foundation

    LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to OpenOffice.org (commonly known as OpenOffice). Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity. LibreOffice is Free and Open Source Software. Development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community. Your documents will look professional and clean, regardless of their purpose: a letter, a master thesis, a brochure, financial reports, marketing presentations, technical drawings and diagrams. LibreOffice makes your work look great while you focus on the content, thanks to its powerful styles system and structuring tools. LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) and Publisher. But LibreOffice goes much further with its native support for a modern and open standard.
    Starting Price: Free
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    SoftMaker Office
    Let your documents speak for themselves. Thanks to its intuitive way of use, its huge feature set, and outstanding performance, you'll create first-class documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with SoftMaker Office. Skip the annoying import and export, SoftMaker Office uses the Microsoft formats DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX as its default file formats. This lets you edit your documents in Microsoft Office directly and without conversion. Edit documents on your smartphone or tablet now as conveniently as on your PC. TextMaker lets you create documents of any size in next to no time, be it a flyer, a brochure, a business letter, or a complete academic paper. PlanMaker makes creating calculations, worksheets, and charts of any complexity a cinch, from a simple timetable to the complete financial planning of your company. As it uses the XLSX file format natively, you can edit Microsoft Excel files true to the original. Create impressive slide shows with presentations.
    Starting Price: $16.50 per year
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    Write! App

    Write! App

    Write! App

    Write! is an elegant workspace to create notes, to-do lists, writing projects and texts of any kind. It has all features of a good word processor packed into a clutter-free interface. Writing tools like configurable autocomplete, intelligent spellchecker, unlimited Ctrl+Z and productivity counters will improve your productivity. Your work will flow smoothly with the help of minimalist writing interface. Your documents will never ever be lost again. You can use Write! on any computer and continue writing from the point you left. You can store unlimited number of documents at no additional cost. Easily manage any writing project structuring it in tabs, Sessions and folders. Switching between writing sessions changes the group of tabs you are working on, allowing you to quickly change the context. Publish documents to the web with a unique URL and share a link to it via email or to social media. When you make changes to a shared document, they are immediately updated online.
    Starting Price: $24.95
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    FreeOffice

    FreeOffice

    SoftMaker

    The best free alternative to Microsoft Office. For Windows, Mac and Linux. SoftMaker FreeOffice is free for personal and business use. Try it out and you will then undoubtedly agree that it is the best free alternative to Microsoft Office. FreeOffice is a complete Office suite with a word processor, a spreadsheet application and a presentation program – all seamlessly compatible with their counterparts in Microsoft Office. What's the catch? There is none. Simply download it free of charge and use it for as long as you want. This great free Office suite has impressed millions of people who now use it every day.
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    Calmly Writer

    Calmly Writer

    Calmly Writer

    Traditional word processors include dozens of options for formatting text, distracting you from what really matters, writing. Calmly Writer is an editor designed to focus on what you want to tell, with a simple, unobtrusive, and easy-to-use user interface. Calmly Writer has been designed to help you focus on writing. As you start typing, all the distracting options disappear from the user interface. The "focus mode" option highlights only the paragraph you are editing at the time. Format your text simply by selecting and clicking on the desired style. If you prefer, you can also do it with keyboard shortcuts or markdown. As long as you do not close a document tab, that document will be opened every time you start the application. If the document was not saved, its backup will be loaded. Calmly Writer displays the number of words and characters written, and allows you to set a target. You can choose between light, dark, dark blue, dune and old-school mode.
    Starting Price: $11.45 one-time payment
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    Collabora Office

    Collabora Office

    Collabora Productivity

    Collabora Office is the enterprise office suite of LibreOffice, the world’s most widely used Open Source office suite. We provide installation and administration utilities together with long term maintenance and contracted support to deliver successful deployments with expertise. Our take is that with Collabora you can not only achieve significant cost savings, but also get a much better product and a real product management relationship with those behind it, with a company that really cares about your business. Major new releases once a year with fresh features and improvements, tested, packaged and ready for deployment. In addition to productive work on the desktop, and of course online, the mobile apps from Collabora Office for Android and iOS enable users to edit text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the go. Learn more about them on the product page.
    Starting Price: €20 per user per year
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    OpenDrive

    OpenDrive

    OpenDrive

    A Powerful, Cloud Storage and Office Suite Accessible from Anywhere. OpenDrive Drive: Store, sync or backup your documents, music and pictures online with instant access, sharing and collaboration, all in a simple to use, secure environment. OpenDrive Notes: In a simple but effective interface, create notepads with single notes and to-do lists. Attach pictures and documents to any note and write comments. Taking notes when something comes up is crucial for any number of business and personal needs. We feel that taking notes and keeping them organized can make everyone more productive. ….and of course it helps us to not forget things. OpenDrive Tasks: A powerful task and project management tool that helps you manage and collaborate on any project within a single interface. Share tasks with your account users or anyone else.
    Starting Price: $9.95 per month
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    TextMaker

    TextMaker

    SoftMaker

    DOCX is the default file format of TextMaker 2021. This lets you skip the annoying import and export. You can open documents created with TextMaker in Microsoft Word, and vice-versa, directly, without conversion. With TextMaker 2021, you can also edit DOC and RTF files, as well as create high-quality PDF files. You can now also create archival PDFs in PDF/A format for the long-term preservation of your documents. SoftMaker Office Professional and NX Universal even enable you to create great-looking e-books in EPUB format. Daily correspondence is handled quickly with TextMaker 2021. Practical time-savers such as the built-in address book, automatic marks for folding pages, and attractive document templates make creating letters, mail merges, labels, and envelopes child's play. Create attractive flyers, invitation cards, and posters in no time at all using the sophisticated desktop-publishing functions of TextMaker, such as its unique object mode, intelligent object guides, etc.
    Starting Price: $16.50 per year
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    IceWarp

    IceWarp

    IceWarp

    The only office rule is, there is no office. Business email, TeamChat for project teamwork, real-time office document collaboration and online meetings. All in our secure cloud and for half the usual cost. Chat in teams organized around projects, upload files, mention coworkers, comment on posted emails, pin important posts. Integration with email enables sharing received messages directly to TeamChat room for colleagues‘ attention. Skyrocket your office work effectivity with Desktop Client and Desktop Office documents on Windows as well as Linux devices. Get the complete Suite, or choose only the app you need.
    Starting Price: $312.00/year/user
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    FocusWriter

    FocusWriter

    FocusWriter

    FocusWriter is a simple, distraction-free writing environment. It utilizes a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work. It’s available for Linux and Windows, and has been translated into many different languages. TXT, basic RTF, and basic ODT file support, timers and alarms, daily goals, fully customizable themes, typewriter sound effects (optional), live statistics (optional), spell-checking (optional), multi-document support, sessions, portable mode (optional), translated into over 20 languages.
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    Calligra
    Calligra Suite is an office and graphic art suite by KDE. It is available for desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, vector graphics, and editing databases. Calligra Words is an intuitive word processor application with desktop publishing features. With it, you can create informative and attractive documents with ease. Calligra Words makes adding images, charts etc to your documents effortless. It’s as simple as dragging it onto the document. Calligra Sheets is a fully-featured spreadsheet application. Use it to quickly create spreadsheets with formulas and charts, to calculate and organize your data. KEXI is a visual database applications creator. It can be used for designing database applications, inserting and editing data, performing queries, and processing data. Forms can be created to provide a custom interface to your data.
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    Tritium

    Tritium

    Tritium Legal Technologies Limited

    Tritium. the Legal IDE, is a desktop word processor built from scratch for transactional lawyers, crafted to streamline legal drafting, review, and redlining workflows. Key Features: Drafting & .docx compatibility: Edit and create Word‑format documents using a clean, lawyer‑centric interface Minimal redlining: Generate lightweight redline comparisons (resulting .docx or clipboard) via Ctrl+Shift+G PDF review: View and annotate PDFs alongside Word docs for seamless review Optional LLM integration: Connect to external or your own proprietary LLM for seamless LLM assistance Real‑time annotation: Instantly highlights defined terms and cross‑references across all open documents Multi‑document library & search: Open a folder containing a matter’s documents with Ctrl+Shift+O, and search across the suite in real time with Ctrl+Shift+F
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