What is Coffice?
Coffice is a free and open source office suite software that provides tools for managing documents, spreadsheets, databases, slide presentations and organizing data. Features include:
- A word processor for creating and formatting documents
- Spreadsheets with analysis tools, formulas and charts
- Presentation tools for creating and formatting slide decks
- Note taking and task management tools
- Support for many image, audio and video formats for multimedia documents
- Converters for opening and saving files in Microsoft Office formats
- An integrated formula editor and spell checker
Coffice provides cross-platform availability with native applications for Windows and Linux with support for interfaces like GTK and Clutter. It integrates with cloud storage platforms like Dropbox, Google Drive and Amazon S3 to access and save documents.
The software was designed as a free alternative to commercial products like Microsoft Office with support for most of its formats and file types. It is licensed under open source LGPL license for flexibility in using the source code. Anyone can view, download or modify the source code for specific customizations.
Microsoft 365 (Office), ONLYOFFICE, WPS Office, Office Online, SoftMaker FreeOffice, Google One, NeoOffice, Apple iWork, Collabora Online, Collabora Office are some alternatives to Coffice.