The best office suites, according to hackers
18 office suites were recommended on Hacker News between November 2025 and November 2026. We rank them by how many separate people recommend each one, and 4 earn the Hacker Approved badge.
Top picks
The three most recommended office suites with the badge. Each figure is 2 people. RecommendsCriticizes One comment
Admired as government open source effort
Free, open source French government office suite praised for polished interface and reuse of existing open source projects. Critics say it is more collaboration tool than true office suite.
Open-source sovereign alternative to Microsoft
Open-source office suite seen as a sovereign alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Caveat: production use points to the paid Enterprise Edition.
Built on LibreOffice, wrapped for web
Free, browser-based office suite built on LibreOffice that people self-host and recommend for Nextcloud setups. Common caveat: it is slow and struggles with complex documents.
All 18 office suites, ranked
Select a column heading to sort. Approval share is recommenders out of everyone who gave an opinion; the tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs. Months counts the months, out of 13, in which someone recommended it.
| Rank | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LibreOffice | 345 | 188 | 65% | 13 | 20 yrs11 owners | — |
| 2 | Microsoft Office | 256 | 407 | 39% | 12 | 12 yrs11 owners | — |
| 3 | Microsoft 365 | 151 | 340 | 31% | 12 | 2 yrs11 owners | — |
| 4 | Google Workspace | 107 | 214 | 33% | 12 | 10 yrs14 owners | — |
| 5 | OnlyOffice | 58 | 48 | 55% | 11 | — | — |
| 6 | La Suite numérique | 25 | 5 | 83% | 5 | — | Approved |
| 7 | Apache OpenOffice | 22 | 41 | 35% | 10 | — | — |
| 8 | openDesk | 17 | 5 | 77% | 6 | — | Approved |
| 9 | Collabora Online | 14 | 7 | 67% | 7 | — | Approved |
| 10 | Collabora Office | 13 | 16 | 45% | 5 | — | — |
| 11 | CryptPad | 12 | 2 | 86% | 8 | — | Approved |
| 12 | Apple iWork | 11 | 10 | 52% | 5 | — | — |
| Tied 13 | Euro-Office | 9 | 12 | 43% | 5 | — | — |
| Tied 13 | Office.eu | 9 | 30 | 23% | 2 | — | — |
| Tied 13 | TinyCld Workspace | 9 | 1 | 90% | 1 | — | — |
| 16 | WPS Office | 7 | 2 | 78% | 4 | — | — |
| 17 | Infomaniak kSuite | 6 | 2 | 75% | 6 | — | — |
| 18 | Google Docs and Google Sheets | 5 | 1 | 83% | 3 | — | — |
How we rank
Rank is the number of separate people who recommend a product in a Hacker News comment over the past year. Someone who praises the same office suite in five threads counts once.
The badge goes to office suites that at least 10 people recommend, with recommenders outnumbering critics at least 2 to 1, recommended in at least 4 of the 13 months.
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