We’vebeen talking a bunch latelyabout the perquisite and perils of Microsoft Office , specially the program you begrudgingly used to drop a line your college papers : Word . In what appear to be an unrelated move , Applejust madea whole legion of productivity apps free . Get excited for Pages ! ( Borat voice : “ Not ! ” )
But gravely , this is not bad news . Apple ’s Christian Bible processor ( Pages ) , spreadsheet program ( Numbers ) , and presentation software ( Keynote ) are all gratis to download for both macOS and iOS . GarageBand and iMovie are also complimentary , if you ’re feeling originative . Many of these apps were free when they launched , and then Apple make up one’s mind to charge citizenry to use them . Now , they ’re free again . living come at you fast .
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Do n’t go start a unexampled word processing - base business quite yet , though . Apple ’s productivity apps are not exactly awesome . While Keynote earned congratulations early on for being a slight advance over Microsoft PowerPoint , Pages and Number seem like good ol’ college tries at substitute for MS Word and Excel — attempts that fall well short ofcoaxing Microsoft loyalist over to the Apple kinsfolk . Meanwhile , GarageBand and iMovie are perfectly acceptable alternatives to applications like Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro . However , they ’re far from replacements if you ’re looking to do serious audio production or video editing .
But hey , who can debate with complimentary computer software ? Google Docs has done a majuscule job of succeed over substance abuser who want to do some introductory Office - character stuff without asking them to pay for it . The undefended - source LibreOffice rooms also does a dependable line of work at attend as a Microsoft Office replacement without forcing citizenry to pay up money for the software . We also make out that not everybody gets to pick and choose which productivity apps they use at work , since many party proffer MS Office and only MS Office . So you might be stuck with that .
If you ’re not stuck , try Apple ’s newly free again software package . You might detest it , but it ’s hard to detest something that ’s free .
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