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This page focuses on LibreOffice Vanilla for Mac, a (TDF-unofficial) version of LibreOffice available in the Mac App Store.

• Now, at last, LibreOffice for Mac is in the App Store, under the name LibreOffice Vanilla, and it's free of charge. There is also a second product in the market, LibreOffice-by-Collabora, which is.
• LibreOffice Vanilla is almost identical to LibreOffice Fresh. The only difference is that when downloading Fresh, the website asks for a donation. AFAIK there are some policies in App Store which doesn't allow asking for money in application listing.
• The pay version LibreOffice Vanilla from the Mac App Store, claims to read the formats of long-dead Word Processors. That may be so, but it does not read very up-to-date Apple Pages although Vanilla is specifically designed for Apple Macs.

Background

About the app: Collabora Office for Android uses the same engine as LibreOffice for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This, combined with a new front-end based on Collabora Online, reads and saves documents similarly to LibreOffice desktop.

LibreOffice is available on a variety of different operating systems including GNU/Linux, Windows, Android, and macOS. The Document Foundation provides pre-built versions (aka “binaries”) of LibreOffice via the Download page, and multiple vendors, Linux distros, and others provide binaries as well.

Developers at Collabora have worked to get LibreOffice included in the Mac App Store:

Versions

There are currently two different versions of LibreOffice available in the Mac App Store (both released by Collabora):

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1. “LibreOffice Vanilla” – the latest LibreOffice Fresh version, available for a low price.
2. “Collabora Office” – A higher price version that includes backported bugfixes & stable features and builds from the same source as the Collabora Office product, offered for enterprises.

Trying it out

See links under #Versions.

System Requirements

Running LibreOffice Vanilla will generally require the same system requirements as our LibreOffice Desktop builds for the Mac.

Limitations

Support of Java is not included. This means that some pieces of LibreOffice will not function, including

• Internal HSQLDB database engine for Base
• Reporting in Base
• Java extensions

QA

LibreOffice QA is primarily focused on our standard, TDF-released LibreOffice builds, however bugs that are found in App Store builds are often likely to affect the desktop version as well, so just as we are interested in bugs in a GNU/Linux distro’s packaging of LibreOffice, it is to our benefit to track the Mac App Store issues and address bugs to the appropriate developers.

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Notes:

• Bug Reporters: If you find a bug in an App Store build, please report it in our TDF Bugzilla.
• Bug Triagers: If a bug only affects the Collabora Office builds, please cc: Andras Timar [1].
• How can I get a list of all App Store bugs? Search for AppleAppStore Whiteboard status

Builds

Build Information

Collabora Office

LibreOffice Vanilla

Known Issues

Libre Office Macos

Documentation

The platform is very close to our regular macOS builds, so the documentation should basically be the same.