
While the web aspects of these web apps - like integration with other online services - aren't as good as they should be, in terms of the actual apps we found them a little more capable and powerful than the ones from Google and Apple. Ulysses can transform your texts into beautiful PDFs, Word documents and eBooks, properly formatted. The familiar Office ribbon is shown at the top of the interface, and if you squint your eyes a little it's actually hard to tell the online and desktop versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint apart. The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone.
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In terms of sharing and collaborating on files, there's definitely room for improvement in the Office online apps - everything you need to share files and work on them with other people is here, it's just that the process could be easier. Mac users have access to a vast selection of excellent photo-editing apps, but even against its many competitors, Pixelmator stands out as one of the best. bar on the left that gives easy access to other documents in each app. Again though, we wouldn't say there's a huge difference between them all. Access to Web services is not yet well implemented in all apps, but is likely to.

In terms of the complexity of documents, spreadsheets and presentations that you can create, Microsoft's apps have the edge over the offerings from Google and Apple. Product page: iWork for iCloud Microsoft Office Online Everything considered, we'd say Google just about beats Apple in terms of the speed and intuitiveness of its apps, but iWork for iCloud is still a great option and will of course be more familiar to existing iWork users. You can, however, export files as PDFs or in Microsoft Office formats (albeit with occasional formatting quirks), so it's not a complete loss if you need to get your files ready for Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Apple isn't quite as savvy as Google when it comes to web apps, and that shows with a few design choices and the occasional bit of sluggishness, but overall it's difficult to find any major faults with what Apple has built inside iCloud.Īs always with Apple, there's a bias towards the company's own technologies, in this case file formats.

As with the offerings from Google and Microsoft, the features and formatting options you get in the online iWork aren't as comprehensive as the desktop versions of these programs, but they're perfectly fine and will get the job done.
