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LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a free office suite

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Free optionSignup unclearFile handling unclearWebsite health 4.6 / 5Community 3.6 / 5

Where it stands

3.9 / 5

Signals score

Not a hands-on test

Based on 2 of 3 signals

Website health4.6 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
Community3.6 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions

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Rank by signals

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We have not run our own hands-on test on LibreOffice yet. Facts checked 2026-11-08. How tests work

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Should you use LibreOffice?

A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-08.

A good fit if…

You want a free option. It states: “LibreOffice provides access to office productivity tools at no cost. The page says: “LibreOffice provides unfettered access to our…”

Check first

Its pages do not state: pricing, signup, watermark, where your files go. Check on the tool's site before you rely on it.

Does: Document converter

Measured signals

4.6 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08

Read automatically from LibreOffice's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured

Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 479 ms.
Security5 / 55 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy, x-frame-options).
Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
Transparency3 / 5Links a privacy policy; no pricing page linked.

Community feedback

3.6 / 5 · 17 commenters

76% of the 17 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about LibreOffice; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works

Positive
“Not much to say other than "I love LibreOffice" I'm by no means a power user but it gets the job done. For everything I do it is a 100% viable MS-Office replacement. Is there an "Advanced LibreOffice" type book that…”
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Positive
“LibreOffice works on multiple versions at the same time. So 4.1.0 is just out, that'll be advertised as "potentially buggy" (forgot what name they gave it). So suggest LibreOffice, as you can choose what kind of…”
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Critical
“I know that the LibreOffice team is short on manpower, but I still find it puzzling that they do not treat reproducible crashes as release-blocking bugs. Instead, there are a lot of such bug reports untouched,…”
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Critical
“Biggest issue with LibreOffice is how slow it is compared to Office. Even in Linux, Office running under Wine is faster than LibreOffice.”
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Threads: LibreOffice hits 4.0 (2013, 126 comments) · LibreOffice 4.1 New Features and Fixes (2013, 81 comments) · LibreOffice 4.2 released (2014, 28 comments) · LibreOffice 5.2.1 released (2016, 6 comments)

Free tier: LibreOffice provides access to office productivity tools at no cost. The page says: “LibreOffice provides unfettered access to our office productivity tools, at no cost to you.”
Paid plan: Not stated.
Signup: Not stated.
Watermark: Not stated.
Where files go: Not stated.

From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-08. Sources: Home. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.

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