Free Mac Office Suite for Mac OSX Platform

After covers free Windows office suites, here is another list of free Mac office suite. As we know the most popular Mac Office suite perhaps will be Microsoft Office suite or iWorks but both of this mac office suite requires to purchase. So, i have gathered a list of alternative iWork or Mac Microsoft office suite alternative for office productivity purpose on Mac.

The free Mac office suites that cover are NeoOffice, OpenOffice and IMB Lotus Symphony. Most of these free mac office suite able to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Writing and page layout are easy using Pages. Beside that, some of these mac office suites are able to compatible with Microsoft Office, so sharing your work is even easier.

Free Mac office suite to replace iWork or Microsoft Mac Office Suite:

NeoOffice - Free Mac Office suite

NeoOffice is a full-featured set of Mac office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs). This free office suite is develop based on the OpenOffice.org office suite core, As NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.

Beside that, NeoOffice is one of the most stable and popular office suites for Mac OS X. Plus more, it can supports most of Microsoft Office and OpenOffice file format for open and save.

Here is a features comparison between OpenOffice, Mac office suite and NeoOffice as reference on below link:

Features comparison between NeoOffice, OpenOffice and Microsoft Mac office suite Link

IBM Lotus Symphony- Free Mac OSX Office Suite

IBM Lotus Symphony, a free Mac office suite that build by IBM based on earlier version of OpenOffice.org. It includes mostly all openoffice features and functionality. However, IBM Lotus Symphony provides three office productivity module only like wordprocessor (Lotus Symphony Documents), presentation software (Lotus Symphony Presentations) and spreadsheet (Lotus Symphony Spreadsheet) only.

But IBM Lotus Symphony able to open number of office file formats, including the Open Document Format (ODF), Microsoft file formats (eg, .doc, .ppt, .xls, .dot, etc), Lotus SmartSuite formats, etc. 

OpenOffice.org - free open source Mac Office suite

Openoffice.org office suite is the open source free Mac office suite. It’s build based on commercial Star office suite and provides similar features and functionality like Microsoft office suite. Plus more, Openoffice office suites also support exports your document file in the PDF format.

OpenOffice free mac office suite offers a complete basic set of office suite includes word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites.

So, do you use above free Mac office suites as your preferable office productivity on your Mac system. Let us know your feel on Mac Office suite that you use .