A great open-source office suite alternative to Microsoft Office

LibreOffice for Mac

LibreOffice for Mac

  -  296.42 MB  -  Open Source
  • Latest Version

    LibreOffice 25.8.2 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_25.8.2_MacOS_x86-64.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    3795c09bf5f2148b4a4503aa90a13896

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:
- 1 dereference null return value
- BASIC runtime error. '380' Incorrect property value
- (EMF-WMF)
- Comments with track changes deleted and crossed in Writer are wrongfully seen in MSO Word as if not deleted
- Database wizard opens when press cmd+A inside the extension manager window
- Navigator's tooltip shows URI-encoded URL (with %%%) instead cyrillic path to file
- Dialog title bar contains URL-encoded character from filename
- UI Enabling hidden Writer header/footer works unreliably
- Format Basic function converts string to number irrespective of format string
- Toolbar button for enclosing text in () brackets
- LibreOffice Draw 7.6 draw lines thinner than 7.4
- Clear direct formatting PLUS Clear character level formatting
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- "Number of lines" control missing in chart type dialog for "Columns and Lines"
- Applying Chi Squared random number with 0 nu Value asserts in random.h
- Left/Right alignment with 'Mirror on even pages' option in Page Number Wizard results with opposite positon
- Interdependent change tracking improvements
- Crash if I set the Slide Transition Modify Transition Variant to Top to Bottom
- Changing the paragraph style on a list entry removes the list
- ODT filter: format redline char properties are lost
- Typing error in help for function COUPPCD()
- Line break typos in Chinese due to Chinese quotation marks
- LibreOffice changes the default folder to "saves as" and "export to pdf" many times for a same opened document, if it's saved during use
- CairoSDPR breaks SVG text layout
- Calc: Inserting hyperlink from API fails, when not using cursor
- External data links confirmation dialog shows URI encoded URL with
- Drag-and-drop a PDF file on a spreadsheet fails with "General input/output error"
- CRASH: deleting columns and undoing
- RTF import: Hyperlink pointing to a system path with backslashes imports with double backslashes
- Incorrect labels of X-Axis while creating charts in Calc and Impress in 25.8. Resets to correct labels after reopening saved file.
- DOCX: Header and footer is missing after opening the file and also converting to the PDF
- Writer mail merge letter adds 2 days to the dates of the calc-spreadsheet datasource
- Bug in Calc when text cells are vertically oriented and “shrink to fit” is selected
- FILEOPEN: DXF files with comments lines are no longer recognized as drawings and are therefore not opened by Draw but by Writer as text files
- When a previously saved .odg file is opened in LibreOffice Draw, any line is selected, then under “properties” the line “thickness” is selected, the previously saved line thickness automatically changes to 0.5.
- EDITING - Box resizing becomes erratic
- ODF: invalid attribute for character change tracking in ODF strict
- Data to Text: insert as text adds 2 days to date columns
- Data to Text: insert as field adds 2 days to date columns
- Data to Text: insert as table adds 2 days to date columns
- Page break with page style with page number in table properties is wrong
- CRASH: pasting to Master Hangout
- SVG text elements get displaced after importing
- SVG: support RTL text direction
- A double variable cannot be assigned the specified minimum value
- First letter of Writer numbered list items lost when pasting to Impress text box
-AutoCorrect: After Removal of Replacement Entry the Replacement Itself is still Performed.
- Cell comments disappear when form control copied on the sheet (steps: comment 10)
- Calc windows cannot be closed after focus change from Validity dialog
- Direction buttons placed one on top of the other in NB Tabbed UI
- CALC. Changing cell number format error with special characters
- Crash when editing paragraph after toggling outline folding
- do not use FillColor==COL_TRANSPARENT on OutputDevice if that OutputDevice does not support alpha
- Document Colors do not appear anymore in the color selection (concerns Editing)
- Calc cell comments are deleted on Save
- crash collapse a heading
- In Writer, Change Case command (SHFT+F3) cannot provide Sentence Case if we select a bullet/numbered list
- Warning about "alien formats" has lost the ability to easily avoid seeing it again
- Setting character spacing does not disable ligatures in Draw and Impress
- LibreOffice Calc hijacks command-option-space on Mac
- crash: use sidebar manage changes to reject all when UNDO is involved
- Basic code gives no result when accessing toolbar buttons - Regression
- SUMPRODUCT() refuses to work under unclear conditions. Shows unexpected #VALUE! error.
- The ScriptForge ImportCSVFile method creates an error when the second but last value contains a comma in a CSV file.
- Edit under filter and then reset the filter, Calc crashed
- Function Str("") of empty string get "0"
- Date literal has type "Double" in Basic
- Draw Crashes on new document when pressing CTRL+pgUp/pgDown
- Incorrect Autocorrection replacement table Swiss German (de-CH): ss vs ß
- LibreOffice writer 25.8.1 crashes when trying to insert a frame for a table