WPS Office VS Free Office | A Trusted Guide

General Overview of both Office Suites

FreeOffice is a basic featured office suite consisting of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software. It is fully compatible withWPS and MS Office documents and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The best of all is it's free for both personal and commercial use.

On the other hand, WPS Office is a fully featured cross-platform and totally free office suite, while it requires users to purchase a license for advanced premium features. But its basic free version is enough for regular usage.

For the vast majority of users, FreeOffice is as good as WPS Office for regular office work. Both include productivity tools with pretty similar functions for spreadsheets, word Writer and presentations. There are other differences that can be highlighted such as cloud storage, team collaboration, and templates that are found in WPS's more robust offering. This blog will discuss the difference on the basis of different features and prices.

Versions Availability

User Interface

Research Tools

Pricing Overview

Since Freeoffice is available for free, WPS Office is also free for basic usage. All the features included in FreeOffice are available in WPS Office for free. But some advanced features WPS Office has in the paid version are not available in FreeOffice. So pricing is not a thing to debate on, between these two rivals.

Tools Comparison

Word Editor

Although both office suits have the Word processor or editor that can create and open MS Word documents. However, WPS Word writer has advanced grammar check, hyphenation, custom ribbons and reading-friendly modes which FreeOffice does not include.

Presentation Editor

With both, Freeoffice and WPS presentation editor, you can read the ppt files and edit them. Still there are some key features which let WPS stand out. As an example, WPS has more variety of fonts and font embedding options. Also, WPS has ready made thousands of templates. All these are absent in FreeOffice.

Excel Sheets Editor

Both apps can read excel formats but FreeOffice cannot validate the further inputs in an excel sheet. You cannot audit formulas in FreeOffice, on the other hand, WPS Office has all these features to go on. WPS Spreadsheets can provide table making facility along with page break which is absent in FreeOffice.

PDF Editor

PDF editor is absent in FreeOffice. However, WPS Office is known for its PDF tools and converters. You can convert the image into an editable PDF and vice versa. Also PDF can be converted to editable ppt or word formats.

Teams App

Team collaboration is the WPS only feature and it is absent in Freeoffice.

Conclusion

WPS Office is a better option according to most of the users. As it provides all state of the art features for free and has a wide user base and great customer support. But, you can still go for FreeOffice as it is totally free with basic features and has better compatibility with MS documents. Whichever option you want to choose, WPS Office is best at all due to its cross platform availability: for iOS, Android OS, MacOS, Windows and Linux. Download the WPS Office app now.