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#SHOULD I INSTALL GOGLE DOCS OR IWORKS ON MY IPAD FOR FREE#

Pages, Numbers and Keynote run on all iOS devices, but not Android or Windows Phone. Device availability: Google’s apps run on all Android and iOS devices, but aren’t available for Windows Phone devices.Office for iPad allows similar access so do the Apple productivity apps. Offline use: Google launched its Docs and Sheets apps with a new capability Drive didn’t offer-the ability to create and work on documents offline.

#SHOULD I INSTALL GOGLE DOCS OR IWORKS ON MY IPAD FOR FREE#

(You can use the more limited Office Mobile for free on Android and iOS so long as it’s for personal use.) Winner: Google, with Apple a close runner-up Office for the iPad, meanwhile, is technically free, although the app limits you to read-only document access until you pony up for an Office 365 subscription, which will set you back $70 a year. Others pay $10 for Pages, Numbers and Keynote-each-so that’s $30 for all three. So are Apple’s offerings-at least to buyers of new iDevices.

Price: Docs and Sheets are free (presumably, Slides will be as well).

So let’s have a quick look at how Google Docs and Google Sheets stack up against their rivals. Some have speculated that Google wanted to unlimber its apps to compete more directly with Microsoft Office (now available for the iPad as well as on Windows devices) and Apple’s own iWork productivity suite-primarily Pages for documents, Numbers for spreadsheets and Keynote for slides. Google, however, also made clear that Drive isn’t going away, so the strategic direction here is a bit murky.

If you don’t have time now, over the next few days you’ll be prompted to download the apps when you go to edit or create a document or spreadsheet in your Drive app. It’s not entirely clear why Google is backing away from its monolithic Drive approach, although it’s apparently fairly serious about nudging users into the new standalone apps: The search giant on Wednesday unbundled new Docs and Sheets apps-for text documents and spreadsheets, respectively-and will shortly also release Slides, a PowerPoint rival, into the wild as well. Google has housed its productivity apps under the Google Drive label since launching it in 2012, but no longer.