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Alpha, about 60% ready for real work

Word, a free word processor in your browser

Write and lay out documents with the ribbon, styles, tables, track changes and references you already know, and save real .docx files. A free alternative to Microsoft Word.

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Word running in Madosuite in a browser tab

What Word does

From the app’s own documentation, version 0.13.2.

Tools

  • Ribbon, styles gallery, themes and style sets
  • Tables with merge, split, sort and formulas
  • Track changes, comments and compare documents
  • Table of contents, footnotes and citations in APA, MLA, Chicago and IEEE
  • Mail merge from CSV, envelopes and labels
  • Headers, footers, sections, columns and page numbers
  • Spelling and grammar in English and Polish
  • PDF export with selectable text, links and bookmarks

Files it opens

DOCXDOCODTRTFHTMLMarkdownTeXTXT

Files it saves

DOCXPDFODTRTFHTMLMarkdownTeXTXT

Not there yet

  • Testing against many real-world .docx files
  • Keeping charts and SmartArt through a round trip
  • Closer pagination to other word processors

What Word replaces

The paid apps people use for the same job. Prices from the vendors’ US pages on 14 November 2026.

Word instead of Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word costs US$99.99 a year (or US$9.99 a month) for Microsoft 365 Personal.

Read the comparisonWord instead of Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 costs US$99.99 a year (or US$9.99 a month) for Microsoft 365 Personal.

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Open a file with Word

Open .docx files

The document format of Microsoft Word since 2007, and what most offices and schools send.

Open .odt files

The document format of LibreOffice and OpenOffice.

Word questions

Is Word free?

Yes. Word is part of Madosuite, which is free. It runs in your browser on your own device.

Which files does Word open?

DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, HTML, Markdown, TeX, TXT. It saves DOCX, PDF, ODT, RTF, HTML, Markdown, TeX, TXT.

Is Word ready for real work?

Alpha: its makers rate it about 60% ready for real work. Not there yet: testing against many real-world .docx files; keeping charts and smartart through a round trip; closer pagination to other word processors.

Can Word replace Microsoft Word?

For writing letters, reports, essays and theses, often yes, and free. Word in Madosuite is alpha: it has not been tested against many real-world .docx files, charts and SmartArt may not survive a save, and pagination can differ.

Where are my files kept?

In the browser on your device, inside Madosuite’s own Linux machine, in its home folder. Your files are not uploaded to us. Clearing the site’s data in your browser deletes them, so download what you want to keep.

Who makes the apps?

The suite apps are the ArtCraft team’s open-source Crafting Apps, under the MIT or Apache-2.0 licence. Madosuite puts them on one desktop in your browser, with Files, a Terminal and Edix, the code editor. See credits.

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Word is WordCraft 0.13.2 by the ArtCraft team, open source under MIT or Apache-2.0. Credits.