TextMaker
Word processing
Learn more about TextMaker for Windows, Mac and Linux,
the GDPR-compliant alternative to Microsoft Word.
Files and printing
- Documents can be exchanged without loss between all versions of TextMaker on all operating systems.
- Open and save DOCX and DOC files from Microsoft Word 2003 to 2024 and Office 365 without changing the original formatting, including password-protected files
- Open and save OpenDocument files (compatible with OpenOffice and LibreOffice)
- Open and save documents in RTF, HTML, Pocket Word and plain text files
- Open WordPerfect documents (.wpd) [Windows]
- NEW: Markdown import and export – the format used by many note-taking apps, AI tools and software documentation
- Assistant for importing and exporting text files
- Create PDF and PDF/A files as well as PDF forms directly in TextMaker, with many options such as password protection, encryption, accessibility and font embedding
- Export to the EPUB e-book format
- Create DOCX and TMDX documents with embedded fonts
- NEW: Integrated print preview in the print dialog
- Print 2, 4, 8 or 16 pages on one sheet of paper [Windows]
- Send and share documents by e-mail in a format of your choice (for example, DOCX or PDF)
Editing and formatting
- Quickly create attractive documents with numerous templates
- Insert fields such as date/time, page number, author, etc.
- NEW: Create custom fields under File | Properties and fill them with values
- SmartText: type “asap,” and “as soon as possible,” will appear.
- Real-time word and character counter in the status bar
- Calculation in both the text and tables
- Borders, shading, fill patterns, drop caps, paragraph control
- Automatic fold marks so documents can be folded correctly to fit in envelopes
- Hidden and protected text
- Paragraph and character styles; stylesheet manager for managing and transferring styles between documents
- Use the Format painter to quickly copy formatting
- Automatic numbering of lines, paragraphs, lists and headings
- Real master pages, not just simple headers and footers
- Live preview of formatting changes
- Synchronized scrolling of two side-by-side documents for comparison
Graphics and drawings
- Draw and design directly in your document with Word-compatible AutoShapes
- Insert images in a wide range of file formats, NEW: now including PDF images
- Graphic effects such as reflections, soft shadows and transparency
- Compress inserted pictures
- Crop images and adjust brightness, contrast and gamma directly in TextMaker
- Fill drawings with colors, patterns, images and gradients
- Photo frames
- Insert barcodes and QR codes, NEW: now also multiline
- Contour wrap
- Connector lines between objects and an extensive symbol library for flowcharts and org charts
- TextArt for font effects
- Insert more than 80 different types of charts
- Perfect positioning with smart guides
Tables
- Complex, as well as nested and multi-page tables
- Merge, split and rotate cells
- Repeating rows (headings are repeated at the top of each page)
- Sort text and tables
- Table styles
Language tools
- Automatic spell checking in more than 85 languages, as you type
- Automatic correction of common typos in many languages
- Automatic hyphenation in 35 languages
- Synonym dictionaries for ten languages
- NEW: New version of Duden Korrektor for trusted German spelling, grammar and style checking [Windows, Mac, Linux]
- NEW: LanguageTool for grammar and style checking in over 30 languages [Windows, Mac, Linux]
- Translation of entire documents or passages with DeepL in 30 languages [Windows, Mac, Linux]
- ChatGPT’s AI writes new text, summarizes existing content and improves grammar and style – in many languages [Windows, Mac, Linux]
Functions for complex documents
- Outline view for structuring documents – NEW: Move headings and their sublevels using drag & drop
- Track changes records all changes and lets you accept or reject them later.
- Comments as balloons in the right-hand margin – NEW: You can reply to comments and mark them as resolved
- Cross references, footnotes, endnotes, indexes, tables of contents, bibliographies
- Native support for the reference management software Zotero for academic documents
- Image captions and tables of figures
- Create and fill forms with input fields, checkboxes, dropdown lists, calculations, etc.
Extras
- Unicode-enabled with extended support for Asian scripts and Arabic
- OLE server: TextMaker can embed its documents in other programs. [Windows]
- Integrated equation editor [Windows]
- Macro programming with BasicMaker and other programming languages [Windows]
- Easy creation of mail merges using SQLite, XLSX, PMDX, dBASE and CSV files
- Integrated database module for SQLite, XLSX, PMDX, dBASE and CSV files
- Insert individual addresses in letterheads
- Create and print labels from the database
PlanMaker
Spreadsheets
Learn more about PlanMaker for Windows, Mac and Linux,
the GDPR-compliant alternative to Microsoft Excel.
Files and printing
- Worksheets can be exchanged losslessly between all versions of PlanMaker on all operating systems.
- Open and save XLSX and XLS files from Microsoft Excel 2003 through 2024 and Office 365, including password-protected files
- Import and export assistant for text files, as well as SQLite and dBASE databases
- Create PDF and PDF/A files directly in PlanMaker, with a wide range of options such as password protection, encryption, accessibility and font embedding
- Scale the printout so that it fits on “n” pages
- Print 2, 4, 8 or 16 pages on one sheet of paper [Windows]
- NEW: Integrated print preview in the print dialog
- The page break preview helps you prepare for printing
- Send and share worksheets by email in a format of your choice (for example, XLSX or PDF)
Comprehensive calculation capabilities
- More than 460 calculation functions
- NEW: Dynamic arrays – one formula returns multiple results that automatically spill into neighboring cells (FILTER, SORT, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE and more)
- NEW: XLOOKUP, a more flexible successor to VLOOKUP, plus XMATCH and around 30 additional functions
- Worksheets with 1 million rows and 16,384 columns
- Calculation with complex numbers and array functions
- Numbers can be freely formatted: currency, fixed decimal places, percentages, fractions, dates, etc.
- Perpetual time format (20:00 + 5:00 equals 25:00), including negative times
- AutoSum, AutoProduct and AutoFill for value series
- External references to other files
Editing worksheets
- Freeze rows and columns
- Cell comments
- Syntax highlighting
- Detective (formula auditing) helps troubleshoot.
- Input validation (data validation)
- AutoComplete for cells
- Select and format multiple worksheets simultaneously
- Sheet, workbook and document protection with encryption
Analyzing data
- Use pivot tables to display, summarize, sort, compare and analyze data effectively
- NEW: Pivot charts – dynamic, interactive visualization of pivot table data
- Goal seek and scenarios
- Database ranges within worksheets
- Data grouping (outline view)
- Sort by up to 64 columns, including by color
- AutoFilter and special filters, filter by color
- Transpose cell ranges
- Database functions for totals, averages, variance, etc.
- Tables – defined areas that can be quickly formatted and analyzed
Creating attractive worksheets
- Cell styles and conditional formatting like in Microsoft Excel 2024
- NEW: Color themes – give the entire workbook a new color scheme with a single click
- Use the Format painter to quickly copy formatting
- Borders, shading and fill patterns
- Live preview of formatting changes
- Rotate, merge and center cells across multiple columns
- Creating and filling out forms
- Three-part headers and footers, colored tabs for worksheets
Graphics and drawings
- Draw and design directly in the worksheet with Excel-compatible AutoShapes
- Insert images in a wide variety of file formats
- Graphic effects such as reflections, soft shadows and transparency
- Compress inserted pictures; crop them and adjust brightness, contrast and gamma directly in PlanMaker
- Fill drawings with colors, patterns, images and gradients
- Photo frames
- Insert barcodes and QR codes, NEW: now also multiline
- Connector lines between objects and an extensive symbol library for flowcharts and org charts
- TextArt for font effects
- Perfect positioning with smart guides
Presenting and visualizing data
- Powerful Excel-compatible charting module
- Insert more than 80 different types of charts
- Customize each chart element with fill patterns and color gradients
- Effects such as soft shadows, rounded edges, transparency and lighting
- 3D charts can be rotated in space
Extras
- Unicode-enabled, including Arabic
- OLE server: PlanMaker can embed worksheets and charts in other programs. [Windows]
- Macro programming with BasicMaker [Windows]
- Spell checking in 85 languages, automatic hyphenation in 35 languages
- Automatic correction of common typos in many languages
Presentations
Presentation software
Learn more about Presentations for Windows, Mac and Linux,
the GDPR-compliant alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint.
Files and printing
- Presentations can be exchanged losslessly between all versions of Presentations on all operating systems.
- Open and save PPTX files from Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 through 2024 and Office 365 without altering the original formatting, including password-protected files
- Create PDF and PDF/A files directly in Presentations, with your choice of slides, outlines, handouts or notes
- A wide range of PDF export options such as password protection, encryption, accessibility and font embedding
- Create PPTX and PRDX documents with embedded fonts, now also on Linux and macOS
- Export entire presentations as graphic files, HTML web pages or videos
- Create portable presentations that run on any Windows computer without presentation software installed
- Send and share presentations by email in a format of your choice (for example, PPTX or PDF)
Design
- Numerous attractive design templates do the design work for you.
- NEW: Color themes give your entire presentation a new color scheme with a single click
- Slide layouts for flexible design
- Universal placeholders for text, images, tables, videos or sounds
- Sophisticated slide master concept (compatible with PowerPoint 2007–2024)
- Live preview of formatting changes
Artificial intelligence
- NEW: Create presentations with AI – enter your topic, and ChatGPT’s AI will create the slides with text and headings as a basic framework.
- NEW: Let presentations be summarized – ideal for quickly understanding unfamiliar slide decks or creating a handout
- NEW: Create or transform AI images directly in your presentation
Graphics and drawings
- Draw and design directly in your document with PowerPoint-compatible AutoShapes
- Insert images in a wide variety of file formats
- Graphic effects such as reflections, soft shadows and transparency
- Compress inserted pictures; crop them and adjust brightness, contrast and gamma directly in Presentations
- Fill drawings with colors, patterns, images and gradients
- Photo frames
- Connector lines between objects and an extensive symbol library for flowcharts and org charts
- TextArt for font effects
- Insert more than 80 different types of charts
- Perfect positioning with smart guides
Multimedia
- Easily insert and play movie and sound files
- Automatic or action-triggered playing (click or mouse-over) of multimedia files
- Play sounds across slides
- Insert image collections
Animations and slide transitions
- Choose from hundreds of object and text animations
- Ready-made animation schemes for entire presentations
- Numerous animations and slide transitions with OpenGL and Metal graphics acceleration
Present with flexibility
- User-controlled and automatic unattended slide shows (kiosk mode)
- Interactively present slide shows with a virtual pen and highlighter
- Presenter view: The audience sees the slides, while the second monitor provides tools for the presenter.
- Notes as a memory aid, handouts for the audience, full-screen view
- Slide sorter and outline view for managing and reordering
Extras
- Unicode-enabled, including Arabic
- OLE server: Presentations can embed slides in other programs. [Windows]
- Spell checking in 85 languages, automatic hyphenation in 35 languages
- Synonym dictionaries for ten languages
- Automatic correction of common typos in many languages
Languages
Documents
With SoftMaker Office, you can edit documents in all the world's languages, even Arabic.
User interface (menus and dialogs)
English (UK, United States), German, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, Arabic, Indonesian, Chinese (simplified), Japanese, Korean
Spellcheck
Europe: German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), English (United Kingdom), Welsh, French, Breton, Occitan, Spanish (Spain), Galician, Basque, Catalan, Portuguese (Portugal), Italian, Latin, Maltese, Romansh, Luxembourgish, Dutch, Frisian, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Swedish (Sweden, Finland), Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian (Latin, Cyrillic), Macedonian, Albanian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Russian, Tatar
North, Central and South America: English (United States), English (Canada), French (Canada), Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese (Brazil), Quechua
Africa: English (South Africa), Afrikaans, Amharic, Sesotho, Swahili, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
Middle East: Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish
Asia: Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Kazakh, Tajik, Turkmen, Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Korean
Oceania: English (Australia, New Zealand)
Grammar check
German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), English (United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa), Irish, French, Breton, Italian, Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Romanian, Greek, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese
Synonym dictionaries (thesauri)
English (UK, United States), German (Germany, Switzerland), French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
Automatic hyphenation
German (old and new spelling), Swiss German (old and new spelling), English (United Kingdom, United States), French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Dutch, Danish, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian (Latin, Cyrillic), Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Indonesian
Automatic translation
English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovenian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Indonesian, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean
System requirements
Windows
- Microsoft Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 (64 bit)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or later (64-bit)
Compatible with Remote Desktop Services (RDS, Terminal Server) and Citrix Virtual Apps (XenApp).
Mac
SoftMaker Office supports all macOS versions starting with 10.14.
You receive native programs for Apple Silicon and Intel CPUs.
Linux
SoftMaker Office supports all major 64-bit (x86_64 and amd64) Linux distributions.
We test and recommend the current versions of:
Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Fedora, Manjaro
iOS
iOS 14 or higher
Android
Android 9 or higher