A great open-source office suite alternative to Microsoft Office

LibreOffice for Mac

LibreOffice for Mac

  -  297.14 MB  -  Open Source
  • Latest Version

    LibreOffice 25.8.3 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_25.8.3_MacOS_x86-64.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    c727830922a471018ff4a4207e6ea0ae

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:
-Increase/Decrease font doesn't apply to bullet in RTL paragraph when text script isn't RTL
-Changing measurement unit disables auto spellcheck
- Adding a new Title Page via Format > Title Page is impossible with a ToC at the beginning of a document
- Writer: DOCX: font color is not white
- Disable "Apply spacing between Asian and non-Asian text" option by default for Korean users
- Notebookbar is displayed regardless of the context
- FILEOPEN RTF Table left indent incorrect
- Suggestion to drop frame target options from Link dialog
- UI: Page corners rendered incorrectly (grey squares)
- Customization dialog: Drag-and-Drop is broken (regression)
- Options > LibreOffice Writer changes page color scheme from Dark to Light (steps in comment 2)
- FILESAVE: Automatic text color lost in DOCX roundtrip of specific document
- Improperly overlaid text on DOCX import
- FILESAVE ODT Column separator color not saved correctly
- UI: Arrows in the Arrow head dropdown are clipped (Windows and kf6)
- command .uno:ThemeDialog is not available in Customize but used in menu Format
- Slow loading speed of docx document with nested tables
- When Japanese is set in the end of footnote, two page numbers are inserted.
- Interdependent change tracking improvements
- LO Impress: pixelated view when hitting F5
- The "Grammar By" column for user-defined dictionary gets misaligned (24.8 regression)
- content.xml size exceeding 2^32 causes General Input/Output Error
- When Autofit is on in headers - headers contain extra white space, and tables get hidden(data loss) in between pages
- MAR updater must not run is headless mode
- Style numbers in navigator do not always match style numbers in highlight
- ODF: questionable markup for character style change tracking
- LibreOfficeKit documentLoad() leads to hang
- French: missing Autotext-Business Cards-Elegant
- SVG: support unicode-bidi
- There is no venv module in embedded Python distribution
- RTF import: some paragraphs appear outside of their frames
- Find Sidebar: If a new search is to be started, the last search is not selected.
- Candy template lost its color gradients
- SUBTOTAL in Excel change when opened in Calc
- FILEOPEN DOCX Table is somewhat offset (compatibilityMode not set = 12)
- Dark mode application icon (and clear and tinted) needed for macOS 26 Tahoe
- Preview widgets with issues in Win, GEN, KF5 and kf6, but not in GTK
- COUNTIFS() returns incorrect count with decimal numbers when matching on last item of area
- Fields in table in header have wrong font size in a specific DOCX
- Issue entering page style margins in cm, when default is in points
- When typing Korean trying to use special characters overwrites the Korean syllable block
- Crash in: rtl_uString_release
- editing format of input field crashes with assert
- Names defined in a class module are visible without an instantiated class, during loading
- FILESAVE PPTX Special characters in comments not escaped during save
- Spaces drop highlighting when crossing margin
- FILESAVE: Document corruption when combining hyperlinks and phonetic guides
- Bug 168709: Similar Bug Unfixed in Another Location
- long normal tooltips are hard to read
- EMF object transparency lost (regression between 25.8.1.1 and 25.8.2.2)
- FILESAVE DOCX Empty charts get saved incompletely
- FILESAVE DOCX Documents having variables with empty names can't be opened in Word
- Cannot rename objects with CJK languages via Navigator
- A specific DOCX can't be saved as FODT
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- (Not-Localizable)
- Form - Form-Based Filters: Filter navigator shows up every second filtering
- After MAR updates on Writer launch, language defaulting to Tagalog (comment 14)
- Find and Replace with font hangs
- Some BC dates cannot be loaded In Calc
- Setting a macro to "Error Alert" in a cell validation, you will not be able to key in
- (Vertical writing) Italic characters are misplaced
- Cannot input in all cells; after input manual data/value in cell with "List" validity
- Extension icons missing in menus
- Closing webdav documents is extremly slow
- It crashes when I try to open a file
- Impress crashes when printing notes if notes contain certain content
- Creating a pivot table changes selection to different area
- Macro: Crash if operator Like has bad Pattern