A great open-source office suite alternative to Microsoft Office

LibreOffice for Mac

LibreOffice for Mac

  -  296.74 MB  -  Open Source
  • Latest Version

    LibreOffice 25.8.1 LATEST

  • Review by

    Juan Garcia

  • Operating System

    Mac OS X 10.10 or later

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  • Author / Product

    The Document Foundation / External Link

  • Filename

    LibreOffice_25.8.1_MacOS_x86-64.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    2185568c5831783ce00b06dac18829ea

LibreOffice for Mac is a powerful office suite; its clean interface and powerful tools let you unleash your creativity and grow your productivity.

LibreOffice
embeds several applications that make it the most powerful Free & Open Source Office suite on the market: Writer, the word processor, Calc, the spreadsheet application, Impress, the presentation engine, Draw, drawing and flowcharting application, Base, database and database frontend, and Math for editing mathematics.

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. Download, Install or Update Libre Office for Mac!

LibreOffice for macOS is compatible with many document formats such as Microsoft® Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher. But the app goes further by enabling you to use a modern open standard, the OpenDocument Format (ODF). Beyond the many features shipped by default, the tool is easily extensible through its powerful extensions mechanisms.

What does LibreOffice give you?

Writer is the word processor inside the app. Use it for everything, from dashing off a quick letter to producing an entire book with tables of contents, embedded illustrations, bibliographies and diagrams. The while-you-type auto-completion, auto-formatting and automatic spelling checking make difficult tasks easy (but are easy to disable if you prefer).

Calc tames your numbers and helps with difficult decisions when you're weighing the alternatives. Analyze your data with Calc and then use it to present your final output. Charts and analysis tools help bring transparency to your conclusions. A fully-integrated help system makes easier work of entering complex formulas. Add data from external databases such as SQL or Oracle, then sort and filter them to produce statistical analyses.

Impress is the fastest and easiest way to create effective multimedia presentations. Stunning animation and sensational special effects help you convince your audience. Create presentations that look even more professional than the standard presentations you commonly see at work. Get your colleagues' and bosses' attention by creating something a little bit different.

Draw lets you build diagrams and sketches from scratch. A picture is worth a thousand words, so why not try something simple with box and line diagrams? Or else go further and easily build dynamic 3D illustrations and special effects. It's as simple or as powerful as you want it to be.

Base is the database front-end of the suite. With Base, you can seamlessly integrate your existing database structures into the other components of Libre Office, or create an interface to use and administer your data as a stand-alone application. You can use imported and linked tables and queries from MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft Access and many other data sources, or design your own with Base.

Math is a simple equation editor that lets you lay-out and display your mathematical, chemical, electrical or scientific equations quickly in standard written notation. Even the most-complex calculations can be understandable when displayed correctly. E=mc2.

Pricing

This program is entirely FREE. It is open-source software, which means there are no hidden costs, license renewals, or advertisements.

You can download, install, and use it for as long as you like.

Users and organizations who benefit from LibreOffice are encouraged to contribute to its development, either through donations or code contributions.

How to Use
  • Open the .dmg file and drag LibreOffice to Applications
  • Launch LibreOffice from the Applications folder
  • Choose a module (Writer, Calc, Impress, etc.) to start
  • Use the toolbar and menu for editing and formatting
  • Save files in ODF or export to PDF and other formats
  • Customize settings via LibreOffice > Preferences
  • Install language packs if needed for spellcheck and UI
  • Check for updates regularly via Help > Check for Updates
  • Access help via built-in guide or LibreOffice online docs
System Requirements

macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or later

Intel or Apple Silicon processor

512 MB RAM (2 GB recommended)

800 MB free disk space

1024x768 screen resolution or higher

PROS
  • Free and open-source alternative
  • Supports many document formats
  • Includes full office suite tools
  • Offline access without subscriptions
  • Frequent updates and improvements
CONS
  • Less polished UI than MS Office
  • Compatibility issues with DOCX
  • Slower performance on large files
  • Limited cloud integration features
Also Available: Download LibreOffice for Windows

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What's new in this version:

Fixed:
- can only reach this line in the case of a caught exception
- dereference after null check
- overflowed constant
- overflowed constant
- overflowed constant
- overflowed constant
- division or modulo by float zero
- overflowed constant
- resource leak
- resource leak
- overflowed constant
- resource leak
- overflowed constant
- resource leak
- overflowed constant
- overflowed constant
- overflowed constant
- dereference null return value
- dereference null return value
- different smart pointers managing same raw pointer
- segv on unknown address
-column label functions do not update after inserting rows below title - needs save and reload including a hard recalc
-FILEOPEN XLS Charts are vertically squashed
-FILEOPEN: CALC do not recognise cell names on .xlsb files
- (EMF-WMF)
- Cell Comments lost if not displayed before Saving in FODS Format (steps in comment 22)
- Multiple memory leaks in libmacabdrv1
- FILEOPEN: Librecalc doesn't show all sheets in XLSX modified with exceljs
- Probably generated XLSX without DocProps folder opens empty (If resaved in MS Office, opens fine in LO)
- EDITING inserting rows before pivot table in row 1 copies format and images from headings
- Usability : Base Form Control Property dialog window width is too narrow by default
- Alphabetical index field: on mouse-over include keys in tooltips
- Links in cells truncated when saved/re-opened (XLSX format)
- Width of horizontal line will be set to 0 when focusing to Height field and then Width in Sidebar if "Keep ratio" is set.
- Autofilter in xslb file ignored
- PDF's created with the "export to PDF" option are flagged "as executable and may harm" when posted to Google Drive
- In Calc, scrolling becomes very slow when hiding (many) columns
- PDF export: Fit Width / Visible make the PDF open with the target large page scrolled down in PDF viewer
- XLSX Autofilter bug; all sheets contain autoFilter XML specs, but only the last sheet presents the filters
- RTF input fails to honor marg[lrtb]N commands when a page command is added. Same for unoconv.
- Some AutoFilter information gets lost after saving/reopening - data corruption experienced
- FILEOPEN: framePr before table gets anchored in table cell instead of an empty paragraph
- Insert-field
- FILEOPEN DOCX: copied even/odd page style missing header properties - dynamic height etc.
- Optimize Persian (Farsi) AutoCorrect List
- Corrupted endnotes and footnotes after saving and opening as RTF
- FILEOPEN DOCX smart justify: Times New Roman not justified identically to MS Word 2019
- Interdependent change tracking improvements
- FILEOPEN DOCX: Heading 1 split by page break becomes "Normal" style after the page break
- SLIDESHOW Hand-written Ink objects ("mouse as pen") are doubled each time a presentation is started or modified, depending on version
- do not use FillColor==COL_TRANSPARENT on OutputDevice if that OutputDevice does not support alpha
- ODF clipboard: Cannot copy/paste graphic bullet via the clipboard
- Windows Arm64 (Aarch64) MSI installer for 25.2.4 seems invalid
- RTF import: table wrong after few saves
- Pasting a selection onto a sheet in PNG or BMP results in a blank image
- Do not allow "Reinstate"/"Reject but track" action on user's own changes
- FILEOPEN DOCX Floating table rendered at the top of the next page instead of the bottom
- Add visualization to justified lines exceeding maximum word spacing
- Chart style index is not exported to OOXML
- Line style not applied instantly for the bottom border of a table; delayed paint
- Numbering wrong after saving RTF
- Fileopen DOCX Paragraph inserted between adjacent floating tables
- Fileopen DOCX Added line number for floating tables
- An empty final line of a paragraph, created by a hard line break, has no line number with line numbering activated
- Empty line after a floating table has no line number with line numbering activated
- Filesave RTF: spacing in lists is saved incorrectly
- LibbreOffice BASE Problem Conversion Number to Date
- EMF: EMR_ANGLEARC is not implemented
- FILEOPEN DOCX: Don't copy continuous section break bottom spacing to previous paragraph
- RTF export: Unicode is output unsigned
- Bullet font lost on RTF export
- "No character border" explicit formatting is not exported to RTF
- FILEOPEN RTF Document property shows up in body as "Unknown"
- FILEOPEN DOCX: missing indent (leftChars=0 disables style's leftChars and should use w:left)
- ODT filter: format redline char properties are lost
- FILEOPEN DOCX: image/shape left/right margin (aka text wrap) should be zero when left/right aligned
- Writer shows font of defined style with 10,8 pt instead of 9 pt
- Dark mode: font dropdown shows white rectangles (GTK3)
- Save dialog should not preselect the template path
- Loading several documents with different embedded fonts drops embedded fonts from earlier-loaded document on Windows
- XHTML-export : Wrong character export
- Mac addressbook ODB file creation or access no longer available or functional
- Removing the accessible selection unexpectedly sets the caret offset to 0
- LibreOffice crash (segmentation fault) when opening document from UNO pipe
- Welcome dialog causes null-pointer-use undefined behavior
- CRASH: opening a second document with tabbed notebookbar ( WORKAROUND: Change UI to Standard Toolbar from View - User Interface)
- Deleting an existing "Mean value line" or a "Trend line" in a chart crashes program.
- XTextRangeCompare doesn't throw when ranges are in different texts
- PPTX import: textbox with auto-shrink text with empty trailing lines is misaligned vertically
- Empty cells should not be rotated if the Text Orientation is set
- Bold/italic not functioning in 25.8
- No error dialog when unable to open compared document
- Calc: Inserting hyperlink from API fails, when using SheetCell as the range
- Calc UNO API: cell object's XText methods behave erratically