A great open-source office suite alternative to Microsoft Office

LibreOffice for Mac

LibreOffice for Mac

  -  287.91 MB  -  Open Source
  • Latest Version

    LibreOffice 25.2.5 LATEST

  • Review by

    Juan Garcia

  • Operating System

    Mac OS X 10.10 or later

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    The Document Foundation / External Link

  • Filename

    LibreOffice_25.2.5_MacOS_x86-64.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    c7850553e7ff53fbf3f25bbb86bd3026

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:
- FILEOPEN DOCX MOD table formula is not working in LO
- Customization for Base "Standard" toolbar is stored in document even if "Base" is selected in scope
- For Japanese vertical writing the candidate list rotates (Microsoft IME)
- FILESAVE background images change upon save and reload
- Cursor disappears when switching from chinese layout (windows 10)
- Incorrect display of Cyrillic characters in the text in LO Writer
- FORMCONTROLS: Textboxes will be created with flat Border - 3D won't be shown after reopening Document
- Broken line connectors
- Combo box items from dialog editor are displayed at a wrong place (Regression - Linux gtk3)
- Checkbox state is not saved in xlsx (saved in ods though)
- (vertical text) Fill character setting "・" , the last character spacing is not enogh
- Every time I try to delete an object in a gallery folder that I inserted, LibreOffice crashes in vcl/source/bitmap/bitmap.cxx:212
- Underscores stripped from bookmark display on right click over page number box
- FILEOPEN PPTX: Connector lines completely gone awry
- Docx: Images moved while viewing in Libre Office
- multi GB memory leak caused by "Save AutoRecovery information" since LibreOffice Calc 24.2.7
- CRASH in SfxTabDialogController::ResetHdl(weld::Button &)
- Editing Forms: Dropdown in Listboxes is positioned nearly left of the listbox
- Blue and Green pixels are swapped with --enable-cairo-rgba
- Field not seen on DOCX fileopen
- Upgrading to v.25.2.2+, the previous selection of encoding in text import dialog gets shifted to the previous entry
- Selecting "Clear List" in the Start Center, pinned thumbnails are not displayed
- Stock Chart is not correctly saved and corrupts the spreadsheet file
- FILEOPEN PPTX: Gluepoints of shape UpArrow are missing
- Form Editing: Background totally displaced from positions of control
- To set the listbox Selection property, the ellipsis tool works with inverted Multiselection semantic
- To set the listbox Selection property, the ellipsis tool inserts unwanted values
- OpenXml nested runs "" within a text box do not get rendered
- New commit causes pages to flicker very quickly, and causes white space in places where it shouldn't be
- FILESAVE XLSX Invalid connections.xml saved with empty dbPr and olapPr elements
- Many Ctrl+Shift+(symbol) shortcut isn't working
- Unable to export a Draw / Impress document to SVG from Basic IDE
- SVG Export: text with "fit to size" attribute gets wrong width
- Backspace at paragraph start for not counted numbered paragraph doesn't decrease indent
- On Windows, tree view elements with undetermined state ("on demand") have non-native expand icons
- Cannot select slide thumb nail and display in main view pane in Impress
- Repairing a generated ODT, which is obviously an invalid ZIP package, loses an image in it
- Text moves to the next page, keeping large empty spaces, in a document with many small paragraphs in multiple columns, having document statistics
- Saving back a particular document (with a single-character autostyle name) crashes
- EDITING: Crash on alt+X use on lone combining diacritical mark
- Upon opening an odt, there are large blank spaces that are forcing content to go onto a new page. We have noticed that Headers/Footers being Autofit have been a large proponent of this, but not the full cause.
- Trying to open an embedded object crashes
- Build fails with poppler version