Microsoft Office is now available on the App Store, but does Apple's popular productivity suite beat iWork in terms of features? Microsoft has a very polished product, but Apple has improved its offering over the years. We tested both, so you can make a confident decision about which is best for you.
Do you need to use Microsoft Office or Apple apps on your Mac?
Office and iWork are good productivity suites that offer a variety of apps. Both offer fully featured word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software. iWork is better if you do a lot of charting, while Office creates more dazzling documents and presentations. iWork is free, making it an attractive choice for iOS owners.
The basic unified Office app for iPad (with Word, Powerpoint, and Excel) is free, but if you need advanced features you'll need an Office 365 subscription. If you also have a desktop PC, Office offers more flexibility.
Both Microsoft Office and iWork receive ongoing updates and are compatible with the current version of iOS.
