La Suite Docs
Ranked 10 of 14 word processors by recommenders
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.
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.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Used by French public bodies
“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”
Comment from 7 Feb 2026 in “France's homegrown open source online office suite” “DINUM (La Suite) and OpenDesk (Germany) reached out and started sponsoring quite a bit of our work”
Comment from 4 Feb 2026 in “France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US”
Other word processors people recommend
The four most recommended other word processors, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Docs | 144 | 137 | 51% | 13 | 11 yrs4 owners | — |
| Microsoft Word | 129 | 234 | 36% | 12 | 20 yrs5 owners | — |
| Apple Pages | 39 | 27 | 59% | 11 | — | — |
| WordPerfect | 36 | 7 | 84% | 9 | — | Approved |
| La Suite DocsThis page | 10 | 2 | 83% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
12 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“We've found it to be quite flexible to set up.”
“patch up the UI quirks and slowness”
“all I found was login pages”
“Learning to do more with less is a feature, not a bug.”
“Love the fact that you use USA date format, not rest-of-world.”
“Awesome to see we’ve made it top the first page again!”
“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”
“DINUM (La Suite) and OpenDesk (Germany) reached out and started sponsoring quite a bit of our work”
“it did feel a bit overengineered, especially since the actual functionality doesn't seem to be much”
“It's really good. The typing experience "feels" right and the collaboration features work.”
“Docs => A better Google Docs”
“They don't have anything of their own right? They just support Only Office through WebDav.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.