LibreOffice Impress vs ONLYOFFICE

LibreOffice Impress

• People who want a desktop presentation app with no subscription
• Linux users who need to open and edit PowerPoint files
• Presenting from a laptop with a second screen or a phone remote

ONLYOFFICE

• Organizations that want to host their own office suite
• Teams on Nextcloud, Box, Moodle or Odoo that need document editing there
• Sharing files with clients in separate rooms with their own permissions
• People who want free desktop editors that work offline

LibreOffice Impress

• There is no hosted cloud version; The Document Foundation says it does not plan a service like those from Google and Microsoft.
• On Android the foundation offers only a viewer with experimental editing, and Impress Remote for Android and iOS controls a slide show but does not edit it.
• The Mac App Store version costs $8.99 and the Microsoft Store version also carries a charge; downloads from the website are free.
• The Presenter Console works only when two displays are connected.

ONLYOFFICE

• The free DocSpace Startup plan stops at 3 admins, 12 rooms and 2 GB, and lacks SAML SSO, LDAP, branding, a custom domain and the audit trail.
• DocSpace Business costs $20 per admin a month; the pricing page shows it as reduced from $30 and gives no end date for that price.
• Docs Enterprise is licensed by simultaneous connections, from $1,500 for a 1-year, 50-connection, on-premises license with Basic support.
• A 1-year Docs Enterprise license stops working when it ends; a lifetime license keeps running but loses free updates after its support period.

LibreOffice Impress

Slides with charts and multimedia

Slide shows can combine text, charts, drawing objects and multimedia, starting from the templates included with Impress.

PowerPoint files

Microsoft PowerPoint presentations can be imported and modified in Impress, so existing decks do not have to be rebuilt.

Animations and transitions

Dynamic effects, including object animations and slide transitions, can be assigned to slides for on-screen shows that run automatically or manually.

Presenter Console

With a second display connected, the audience sees the slide show while the presenter's screen shows the current slide, the next one, the notes and a timer.

Impress Remote

An open-source Android and iOS app controls a slide show over Bluetooth or a network link, showing slide thumbnails and speaker notes and offering an on-screen pointer.

Views, handouts and export

The Slide Sorter shows thumbnails of every slide and the Handout page pairs slides with text for the audience. Slide timings can be rehearsed, and decks published as handouts or HTML.

ONLYOFFICE

Document, sheet and slide editors

Online editors for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations, which the vendor describes as highly compatible with Microsoft Office and OpenDocument formats.

PDF editor and fillable forms

Build fillable PDF forms and have them filled in online, read and edit PDFs, and convert documents to Markdown, HTML or e-books.

Real-time co-editing

Co-edit in character-level or paragraph-level mode, track changes, compare documents, leave comments and mentions, and chat or call from inside the editor.

DocSpace rooms

DocSpace sorts files into rooms with their own access rights: collaboration, public, form-filling and custom rooms, and virtual data rooms.

AI assistants and agents

AI tools generate documents, sheets, slides and forms, rewrite and translate text, and extract text from scanned PDFs. Any AI model can be connected, including a fully local one.

Connectors and self-hosting

More than 40 ready-made connectors add the editors to platforms such as Nextcloud, Box, Moodle, Odoo and WordPress, and the server can run on your own infrastructure.

LibreOffice Impress

• LibreOffice$0

  The full office suite, including Impress, downloaded free from libreoffice.org for Windows, macOS or Linux.

ONLYOFFICE

• Community and free appsFree

  Docs Community and DocSpace Community builds for self-hosting, desktop editors for Windows, Linux and macOS, and iOS and Android apps.

• DocSpace Startup$0

  Cloud plan with up to 3 admins, 12 rooms and 2 GB of storage, and unlimited users and guests. The page labels it a limited-time offer.

• DocSpace Business$20

  per admin / month

  Cloud plan with unlimited rooms, 250 GB per admin, SSO, branding, automatic backups and audit trail. Shown reduced from a crossed-out $30.

• Docs EnterpriseFrom $1,500

  1-year license, 50 connections, on-premises, Basic support

  Self-hosted editors to connect to another platform, licensed by simultaneous connections for 1 year or for life, with three support levels.

• DocSpace EnterpriseCustom

  On-premises DocSpace paid per connection, with unlimited admins and rooms, multi-space management and support under an SLA.

LibreOffice Impress

No public discounts listed.

ONLYOFFICE

• Nonprofit

  Free DocSpace cloud for nonprofits and schools

  Nonprofits and schools can request a free DocSpace cloud with 2 GB of storage and up to 20 admins. It requires an ONLYOFFICE banner on their website or a post about the partnership.

• Education

  Discounted rate for educational institutions

  The DocSpace pricing FAQ says educational institutions other than schools can get a discounted rate. No figure is published.

• Lifetime license

  Lifetime license for Docs Enterprise

  Docs Enterprise can be bought with a lifetime license instead of a 1-year one. The version bought keeps working, but free updates end with the support period chosen, 1 or 3 years.