ibisWorks Releases Free Open-Source Office Suite ibisOffice
ibisWorks is measuring ibisOffice against Microsoft Office with 70,000 pixel-comparison tests a day, which makes rendering fidelity rather than feature count the claim a free suite has to defend.
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ibisWorks, the studio behind the free drawing app ibisPaint, released ibisOffice, a free open-source office suite that opens and edits Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. The desktop app runs on Windows and Mac; the browser version uses Wasm and WebGPU, and files stay in the browser. ibisOffice is written in Rust with GPU rendering and shares no code with older office suites. The code is on GitHub under AGPL-3.0-only, with a commercial license for products that cannot meet the AGPL terms.
The release was announced on X on October 12. ibisOffice is written in Rust and drawn directly on the GPU, with no code carried over from older office suites, and the announcement puts rendering at 60 frames per second. Macro-enabled documents open as well.
Files can be created, opened, edited and saved in the desktop app for Windows and Mac, or in the browser, where loading and drawing happen locally and nothing is uploaded to a server. The source is on GitHub under AGPL-3.0-only, with a commercial license for products that cannot release their own source under the same terms.
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