# La Suite Docs

10 Hacker News commenters recommended La Suite Docs and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as an open source alternative to Google Docs, with a good typing experience and working collaboration features. Most common caveat: UI quirks and slowness.

## Why people recommend it

- Used by French public bodies (2 comments): "many of the municipalities in the French gov are using it for their day to day work so it is clearly useful in some capacity" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925314)) "DINUM (La Suite) and OpenDesk (Germany) reached out and started sponsoring quite a bit of our work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882900))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Google Docs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-docs.md): 144 recommend
- [Microsoft Word](https://hackerapproved.com/p/microsoft-word.md): 129 recommend
- [Apple Pages](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pages.md): 39 recommend
- [WordPerfect](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wordperfect.md): 36 recommend
- [LibreOffice Writer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/libreoffice-writer.md): 28 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "La Suite Docs", https://hackerapproved.com/p/la-suite-docs/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).