ONLYOFFICE Docs, the best Google Docs alternative

100% compatible with Microsoft Office formats

8 reasons why ONLYOFFICE Docs is the best alternative to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Open-source

ONLYOFFICE provides users with open-source solutions. Our source code is listed on GitHub what ensures transparency and reliability: you can check it out at any time.

Security

ONLYOFFICE can be deployed on your own server what gives you full control over your data. Multiple security tools and services let you protect yourself from any threats. Private Rooms allow storing, editing, and co-authoring your docs in always-encrypted form.

Web, desktop, mobile

With ONLYOFFICE, you can work online from any browser and OS, edit docs offline with the free desktop apps for Windows, Linux, and macOS, as well as use free mobile apps for Android and iOS.

Docs, sheets, slides, forms, PDF

Edit and collaborate on text documents and spreadsheets of any complexity, create stunning presentations, view and annotate PDFs. Build professional-looking forms and templates from scratch or any existing DOCX file, let other users fill them out, and save forms as fillable PDF files.

Seamless collaboration

ONLYOFFICE Docs provides users with character- and paragraph-level co-editing modes, review and track changes, version history, comments and mentions, built-in chat, plugins for audio and video calls. You can easily share your documents with flexible permissions such as commenting, reviewing, filling forms, custom filtering.

Support for all popular file formats

ONLYOFFICE Docs are fully compatible with Office Open XML files (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX) and support other popular formats such as ODT, RTF, DOC, TXT, ODS, CSV, ODP, XLS, PPT, HTML, EPUB, XPS, etc.

Flexibility

Unlike the tech giants, ONLYOFFICE doesn’t lock the customers into its collaborative ecosystem. You are free to choose how to use the online editors: as a part of the room-based environment ONLYOFFICE DocSpace, within any sync&share or ECM service like Nextcloud, Alfresco, Confluence, Seafile, etc., or integrated into the solution you’re building yourself.

AI helper

Make use of the AI assistant plugin to boost work with your texts: run word analysis and explore the meaning of unknown words, generate passages, images and keywords, summarize and translate stories, find synonyms.

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ONLYOFFICE and Google Docs: four main differences

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Check out the compatibility with MS Office formats

We saved the docx file and xlsx file created by Microsoft in PDF using other suites. Here's the result.

Documents (.docx) Spreadsheets (.xlsx)

ONLYOFFICE Google Docs

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Still not convinced? Compare the editors yourself!

Download the docx and xlsx files and try to edit them using MS Word Online, Google Docs, Zoho Docs, LibreOffice/OpenOffice, WPS Office, Hancom Office and ONLYOFFICE Docs.

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