ThinkFree Office for Mac

Cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office

ThinkFree Office is an alternative office suite that allows you to open and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations just like you would in Microsoft Office. ThinkFree Office looks and feels very similar to MS Office, and in some aspects, it seems to have copied it directly, especially in the way the word processor looks.

ThinkFree Office consists of three segments: Write (word processor), Show (presentation tool), and Calc (a spreadsheet tool). The functionality of these components is very similar to MS Office and the free OpenOffice.org, although OpenOffice is, of course, free and ThinkFree is not, despite the name. However, ThinkFree Office does offer one advantage, which is a PDF export function for any document produced in ThinkFree Office.

You can also manage documents in ThinkFree Office with your Windows Mobile or Android device for free. However, although there is an English spell checker, other languages don't seem to be catered for. It also takes an extremely long time to load on the initial start, and there's no way to customize toolbars. Overall, ThinkFree Office looks and feels like Microsoft's office suite, although users of OpenOffice get pretty much everything the same and for free.