LibreOffice Viewer

The Document Foundation

About this app

You may know LibreOffice from the desktop - the free and open source office suite (successor to OpenOffice) with over 200 million users worldwide. It's secure and respects your privacy, not sharing your documents with anyone else. It's also available for Android in a simplified form, to view documents in these formats:

• Open Document Format (odt, ods, odp, odg)
• Microsoft Office 2007–365 (docx, xlsx and pptx)
• Microsoft Office 97–2003 (doc, xls and ppt)

LibreOffice Viewer also has experimental editing features, which are not yet suited to production use. (Experimental mode can be enabled in the app settings.) The software is open source and made by a worldwide community, so if you'd like to improve the experimental editing support, please join us!

Feedback and bug reports are very welcome, to help developers improve the quality of the application. You can report bugs and attach files here: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org

LibreOffice Viewer is built on the same technology as LibreOffice desktop for Windows, macOS and Linux. LibreOffice Viewer is released under the Mozilla Public License v2. The software is backed by a dynamic community, represented by The Document Foundation, a not for profit entity based in Germany.

LibreOffice was based on OpenOffice.org (commonly known as OpenOffice). Full credits: https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/credits

Ratings and reviews

It works seamlessly with my Nextcloud app and is ideal to view and show remote files on the go, namely drafts you haven't finalized to PDF yet. UPDATE: I turned on experimental editing, and I was able to create and save a text document directly to my Nextcloud server. It saved as a generic file; I had to add the .odt extention to its name to open it again (an easy workaround). Aside from that, I'd like to see a Mobile View mode for smaller smartphone screens.

UPDATE: 11/24/23: Thanks to the developers for notifying me about updates to the app. It does open documents for viewing. It's still pretty raw but it does let you view. I hope it becomes more polished and, ultimately, more functional. ORIGINAL: 2018: Would not open anything. Really wish this was a functional app. I'm all in on LibreOffice so get the android app up and running.

UPDATE 2/2024: App seems to work fine now as a viewer; to be fair, that's all it's labeled as, so I am adding 2 more stars. But minor calculations are still out: A (fairly simple) worksheet I made via computer (where file works fine) gives errors if I use it here. ☹️ But TY!! Original review, 2016: Sadly, I can't even open the app. It insta-crashes on every single click. I tried Uninstalling, but even a reinstall did nothing. Would love to see/try if it becomes stable for me to try someday...

What's new

• Various bug fixes from LibreOffice core