SoftMaker has been making office software for mobile devices since PDAs were cool. For years, the company’s text, spreadsheet, and presentation apps for Windows Mobile offered better support for desktop office documents and more features than pretty much anybody else’s software. Now SoftMaker has released public beta versions of its first office apps for Android. TextMaker is a word processing application, PlanMaker makes spreadheets, and SoftMaker… Read more »

Zoho provides a range of online software including web-based office software, web conferencing apps, and online accounting software. The company’s Zoho Docs service is at least as good as Google Docs for creating and editing text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents and collaborating with other users. But up until recently the only way to access Zoho Docs on a mobile device was by using a mobile… Read more »

Google has released a major update to Google Docs for Android, bringing the ability to create and edit documents using a new native Android editor, support for rich text formatting, and real-time collaboration, allowing you to see edits other users have made to a document almost immediately. That’s the good news. The less good news is that: The native editor only works with documents, not… Read more »

Amazon seems to be making a habit of offering office suites for Android for free. Every day the Amazon Appstore for Android offers one paid app free of charge. A few weeks ago that free app was OfficeSuite Pro and last week the company followed up with QuickOffice Pro. Today its DataViz Documents To Go that’s available for free from Amazon. What these three apps… Read more »

LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite that offers many of the same features you’d get from Microsoft Office. In fact, you can use LibreOffice to view or edit Word, Excel, or PowerPoint documents on a Mac, Windows, or Linux computer. It also supports a wide range of other document formats. Now the folks at The Document Foundation are planning to port LibreOffice… Read more »

Google probably should have launched a Google Docs app for Android about two years ago. The ability to view, edit, create, and collaborate on documents would have been a major selling point, and it seems like a no-brainer for a company with one of the top mobile operating systems and one of the top cloud-based office suites. Better late than never, I guess, because today… Read more »

SoftMaker is preparing to launch a private beta of its new office suite for Google Android devices. You can sign up for the beta by following the instructions in the latest SoftMaker newsletter. The company has been producing powerful office apps for mobile platforms for ages, building a strong following for its Windows Mobile office suite which includes apps that are compatible with Microsoft Office… Read more »

Online office suite Zoho puts Google Docs to shame, with web-based apps for creating, managing, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents as well as apps for managing your accounting, email, project management, and other needs. There’s also a Zoho app for the iPhone and iPod touch which lets you view documents from your account. Now Zoho has launched a new version of its… Read more »

As expected, the folks behind the Quickoffice suite for mobile phones have released a version optimized for Android tablets. You can use QuickOffice Pro HD to view and edit Office documents including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. The app can also access documents from Google Docs, Dropbox, and other online services. Quickoffice Pro HD is currently available from the Android Market for $14.99, but… Read more »

Quickoffice has released an updated version of its Android app with several key new features. Quickoffice Pro now has more robust editing features, faster file loading, scrolling and zooming, integrated contextual search, text-to-speech via Google PDF viewing and of course performance improvements. The app has also extended its editing capabilities for Microsoft Office files. It now lets you insert images and format text in Word… Read more »