Collabora Office

Unfortunately, not ready for prime time on iOS despite the similar functionality to MS Office. Cannot properly save on ipad and file management on iphone beyond print does not exist. Strange beyond words the quality gaps that exist. Still testing on Macos but the mobile apps are a brief afterthought at best as of this writing.

If you try to use this app in the natural way you would use any other app, you will quickly lose all of your work! Like, if you click “new, document” and type up a text document, the most obvious button to push is the check mark at the top left. You think it has saved your work, so then you click the back arrow at the top left. But is your work saved? No! Not only is it not saved but it is permanently deleted! Let’s try again, type new document, go to hamburger button top right, now you click on “save.” Surely now it is saved and it is now safe to click the back button at the top left? Wrong again! Your work was NOT saved and it is completely lost again! The only way to save your work is to find “export” and export it has something like a .doc or .pdf. I recommend doing this first thing, before you start typing. If you do this first it will save correctly. A good app would make it nearly impossible to accidentally lose your work. With this app, losing your work is the default, if you are not extremely careful. The right way would be, when clicking “new document” it should prompt you to type a title for the file and select what type of document/file it is going to be. That step would take care of the exporting first thing and then it would be saved before you even start writing

How can I use it, when a copy of a cell merely copies the value and not the formula?

it is have so much foundation i love it ,hope it can not crash so many times

How did this piece of junk get all these great reviews? I just installed it. It came up accessed to my iPad Files. No instructions at all! I looked for a beginner’s How To video - without success. I managed to open a new blank document. It said to “double tap” to change some text. I would still be tapping to make something work, but I stopped to write this! Back to the MS Office Suite on my PC . . .

Couldn’t even pass the most basic copy paste command. Meant well by knowing the command, but didn’t even flinch when I hit paste from notes. I wouldn’t trust it - experimental is overstating its status

Would give zero stars if I could. It’s just bad. Difficult to edit documents without messing everything up and the screen spazzes out so that you can’t save any changes. Guess I’ll stick to keeping things in the iOS notes app and formatting them on the computer.

Originally I had written a bad review because of the constant software crashes, but with the recent iPad 17.1 update the crashes have been taken care of. Working well again. Excellent!

I got this app a couple months ago and it was working great. However, over the past couple weeks I’ve been experiencing crashes whenever I try to scroll down a document. At first it wasn’t giving me too much trouble, but now it’s gotten to the point where I’ve had to move everything to another program because I can’t edit anything. It’s such a shame because this app has everything I need for writing

Not usable in current state if it didn’t crash 5 stars