A great open-source office suite alternative to Microsoft Office

LibreOffice for Mac

LibreOffice for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    LibreOffice 26.2.1 LATEST

  • Review by

    Juan Garcia

  • Operating System

    macOS 11.0 Big Sur or later

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  • Author / Product

    The Document Foundation / External Link

  • Filename

    LibreOffice_26.2.1_MacOS_x86-64.dmg

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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:

Writer:
- Anchored objects are no longer selected after pasting. The old behaviour can be restored by setting the expert option Office::Writer::Cursor::Option::SelectPastedAnchoredObject to true.
- Floating tables and the keep-with-next/don't split paragraph attributes now work better together in Writer
- Change tracking: old direct format of format redlines are now preserved for ODT and are improved for DOCX
- Change tracking: it is now possible to decide which change to accept for interdependent changes
- Floating tables can now be split into floating tables, which improves DOCX export.
- When changing one numbered list by joining it to a previous one
- Spell checking dialog: various papercut fixes. Correct-All list no longer cleared unnecessarily
- Record Track Changes: Partly-deleted paragraphs added to the hidden list. In this way, track changes for partly-deleted paragraphs will not be displayed in the numbering list.
- Writer now takes line spacing into account for field shadings. In this way, bottom of some letters
- Do not show line numbering in footnote during DOCX import.
- Pasting a single image from the clipboard now automatically inserts a caption, following the Writer AutoCaption Images configuration setting.
- Writer now supports Start and End paragraph alignment. These options align paragraphs relative to the paragraph text direction, and can simplify reusing styles across languages and writing systems.
- Writer can now automatically set the direction of RTL text while typing. This behavior can be added to a paragraph style by checking the "Automatically set direction" option in the alignment tab of the paragraph dialog.
- Writer now displays a more visible grid, and the Snap to Grid functionality now accurately aligns objects with the grid.

Calc:
- Calc now supports xmlMaps.xml
- Improvements to the Sort dialog options
- When natural sort is enabled in the Sort dialog options, you have an additional choice to treat decimal separators as regular characters. That allows to sort IP addresses, for example, even if your locale has a dot as decimal separator. The fact that natural sort is enabled is now written to the file and thus retained when reopening the file. tdf#161949
- The locale setting in the options of the Sort dialog is now written to the file and thus retained. Setting the locale effects not only the choice of a special sort algorithm but now it effects other locale dependent sorting properties too, e.g. which character is used as decimal separator for natural sort. tdf#168175.
- Support for Biff12
- Excel 2010+ was made the default format when saving as XLSX. It was renamed from 'Office Open XML Spreadsheet' to 'Excel 2010–365 Spreadsheet'.
- Modifying a formula to Matrix mode can now simply be done by F2, ⇧ Shift+Ctrl+↵ Enter. No need to change formula itself.
- The commands to set the font and the background color
- Expert option Office::Calc::Content::Display::NoteTransparency allows users to switch off transparency for comments
- Column titles don't overlap anymore when column widths are small

Performance:
- Scrolling speed was improved when a spreadsheet has many hiding columns
- Spreadsheets with lots of shapes are now faster to work with
- Removal of duplicate entries is now faster
- Reject tracked changes is faster
- Exporting SVGs with lots of bitmaps was optimized

Impress:
- Introduced Microsoft Media Foundation APIs on Windows to support video and audio playback of common codecs. Managing video playback with MFPlay. About the supported video and audio file formats.

Base:
- Base is now truly multi-user

Chart:
- Hovering with the mouse over Chart data range colour palette entries in the Sidebar now shows a live preview in the active chart.
- Some OOXML chart style content now round-trips through LibreOffice

Performance:
- Performance issues with 3D charts were fixed

Core / General:
- Added connector support for Writer and Calc. The object path in the standard toolbar: Insert ▸ Shape ▸ Connectors. The object path in the tabbed user interface: Insert ▸ Connectors
- Fonts for which the license disallows editing, which are embedded in documents, are now supported. Previously, they were silently ignored, and the documents were displayed using substitute fonts. Now the user is asked if they want to open the document in edit mode
- Google Drive authentication was improved to use normal browser method
- PDF export: handle document external links.

Filters:
- Generic XML and JSON mapping to Calc:
- Generic XML and JSON documents with linkable ranges are now automatically mapped to sheets in Calc. A linkable range is a section of a document containing tabular records. When a document contains multiple linkable ranges, each range gets mapped to a single sheet.

DOCX:
- Improved line height handling of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean DOC/DOCX documents.

Markdown:
- Added support for exporting to Markdown format
- Added support for importing from Markdown format, either via files or via the clipboard
- Added support for using ODT/DOCX templates while importing a Markdown document

EPUB:
- EPUB export was made much faster, and a progress bar is shown during export

Graphics:
- The Skia graphics engine is now mandatory on both Windows and macOS

Performance:
- Rendering of shape fills was made more performant
- Rendering of SVGs with pattern fills is now faster on Linux

User Interface:
- All dialogs use vertical tabs with icons now
- Option to use horizontal tabs instead vertical
- The Layouts panel in the Impress Sidebar now uses a native IconView widget instead of the ValueSet widget
- The Theme dialog now uses a native IconView widget instead of the ValueSet widget
- The Presets and Shadow Style Positions from the border page dialog now use a native IconView widget instead of the ValueSet widget
- The Go to Page/Slide/Sheet dialogs are now async
- Allow inserting hyperlink via context menu
- Dialog screenshots can now be copied to the clipboard for immediate pasting in documents
- On Linux, the native GTK and Qt color picker dialogs are now used by default instead of the custom LibreOffice one. This can be configured in Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ General
- The page size dropdown in the NotebookBar is now visually more consistent with the rest of the User Interface and it displays the full names of the available page sizes.
- New symbols for unordered lists
- Image library for unordered lists

Accessibility:
- Accessibility of the border previews in the Border tab of various dialogs
- When the Tools ▸ Spelling dialog shows up, it is now properly announced by the Orca screen reader on Linux.
- Removing the accessible selection no longer unexpectedly sets the caret to the beginning of the text.
- The Help ▸ Check for Updates... dialog is now screen reader accessible
- Spelling errors in Writer are now only reported to assistive technology when automatic spell checking is actually enabled.
- Keyboard accessibility for the Tools ▸ Extensions... dialog has been improved
- It is now possible to switch between vertical tabs using keyboard shortcuts

Scripting:
- The version of the internal Python is 3.12
- Ship sqlite3 with internal python
- Ship dbm with internal python
- Ship venv with internal python
- Ship lzma with internal python