A great open-source office suite alternative to Microsoft Office

LibreOffice for Mac

LibreOffice for Mac

  -  291.05 MB  -  Open Source
  • Latest Version

    LibreOffice 26.2.2 LATEST

  • Review by

    Juan Garcia

  • Operating System

    macOS 11.0 Big Sur or later

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    The Document Foundation / External Link

  • Filename

    LibreOffice_26.2.2_MacOS_x86-64.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    096d72776fe0ee6855a5e7e1ccf2dc58

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`s New
  • Improved compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX).
  • Enhanced performance when opening large documents and spreadsheets.
  • Refined user interface with updated icons and theme improvements.
  • Writer updates with better comment handling and change tracking.
  • Calc improvements including new functions and faster recalculation.
  • Impress enhancements with smoother slide transitions and export options.
  • Improved PDF export with added security and accessibility options.
  • Stronger interoperability with modern OpenDocument (ODF) standards.
  • Better spell-checking and language support updates.
  • Bug fixes and stability improvements across all modules.
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:
- sw redline render mode: handle moves
- timeout
- timeout
- integer-overflow
- timeout
- direct-leak
- integer-overflow
- direct-leak
- FILESAVE: Slide transistion sound(other sound) is not included in presentation file
- RTL: Status bar fields aligned to the left
- FILEOPEN: XLSX - Pointer to sheet with dotted name in cyrillic has incorrect reference format
- Freezes when I open a ODT document
- EMF+ Images with textured brushes are not drawn
- Incorrect current page after changing the layout, undo and redo
- Erratic behaviors in Basic IDE with multiple controls selection
- The content of DOCX content control is no longer updated when opened (unless resaved in MSO)
- DOCX SDT: support for
- LibreOffice Draw 7.6 draw lines thinner than 7.4
- Defined Ranges in a single column with delimiting row corrupted by 7.6.5 (STR comment 5)
- Landscape writer docs print in truncated Portrait
- Relationship between "Show expand/collapse buttons" and "Enable drill to details" options in pivot table is unclear
- FILEOPEN PPTX: Text appears right aligned instead of centered
- FILEOPEN PPT Hanging indent not imported in bulleted paragraph
- FILESAVE DOCX Word fails to open roundtripped document (issue with shape guides/glue points)
- UI: right-click action on master file item acts on selected item, not item under mouse cursor
- Since version 24 of LibreOffice, the PDF/A-1 export is invalid
- no-break-space disappears when wrapping to another line
- PDF/UA-2 generation is incorrect
- Slide thumbnail isn't shown in notes view, when 'draw:page-number' attribute is missing in 'draw:page-thumbnail' element in ODF markup
- LibreOffice crashes with Skia/Raster on X11 (gen) VCL backend
- FILESAVE DOCX Certain document with invalid date in date picker can't be opened in Word after roundtrip
- About dialog: build ID is missing in WSL daily build
- FILESAVE DOCX Certain document with data binding in date picker can't be opened in Word after roundtrip
- FILESAVE: PPT->PPTX invalid value in a:ext
- FILESAVE PPTX Paragraph styles Above/Below paragraph spacing value saved as direct formatting
- Only one page is displayed if a string has a large font and uses certain Split Options
- FILESAVE: PPT -> PPTX invalid values in a:off element
- FILESAVE: ODP -> PPTX Charts are not properly exported
- Hidden fields and footnotes - footnote anchor hidden, but not footnote text
- Some UI text color is influenced by the Windows appearance settings
- LibreOffice 25.8.x and 26.2.x crashes often when WritingTool (Java) is used
- FILESAVE PPTX OLE objects on different slides get overwritten on save
- FILESAVE: XLSX - Handle labels in formulas
- FILESAVE: XLS -> XLSX Skip import of external formulas
- FILESAVE: ODS/XLS -> XLSX font name exceeds max length of 31
- FILESAVE: XLS -> XLSX Handle cell references in definedNames
- ANR loading document
- Thumbnails for protected (and some unprotected) documents are rendered with artifacts
- FILESAVE: XLS -> XLSX Import of external functions
- Transcribing properties from a Writer file to PDF: problem with the apostrophe in LO 25.8.4
- FILESAVE: XLS -> XLSX external references in Data Validation are not exported in workbook.xml
- bullet editing dialog gets broken in changing the width
- A specific document hangs after fix to bug 170381
- XLSX - Export dataOnRows attribute in Pivot Table
- FILESAVE XLSX SUM/MAX/MIN formula without arguments saved invalid
- FILESAVE DOCX: bookmark starts do not always match bookmark ends
- Slide transition IconView shows as cramped two columns upon initial display even though there is space for more (Qt UIs)
- A floating table moves to the next page in a certain DOCX
- A floating table splits to move second part to next page, but keeps it on the first page, overlapping with first part
- If the file is saved while the cursor is in a comment, the cursor disappears and is not recovered by Esc, arrow keys, etc.
- FORMATTING Calc mangles single "-" in number format code after file is closed and then re-opened
- FILESAVE DOCX: corrupt document report by MS Word when certain content controls contain a fly
- Tabbed toolbar visible in presentation view
- Impress templates: master page name should not contain minus sign
- Writer & Calc crash when upgrade icon is clicked
- Opening a document fails an assertion after a recent change
- unprotect sheet dialog has two icons "show password"
- A floating table stays on page 1 (partially off-page)
- Portrait Letter / A4 page switches to Landscape, when Microsoft XPS Document Writer is selected in Print dialog
- Ship LibreOfficeKit headers and examples with LibreOffice SDK on macOS
- FILEOPEN PPTX: elements with 3D rotations don't render any longer
- Find: red color wrongly remains when with similarity new results are found
- Landscape page: print preview switches to portrait on printer change
- PDF Whole Sheet export feature only exporting data up to 1022 rows
- Add glyph scaling to paragraph justification
- LibreOffice crashing when tiling with option key and drag on MacOS
- send document by email does not hand over the document to mac mail
- Document created in earlier version looses frmatting in version 26.2.1.2