There’s a good mix of paid and free alternatives to Word on Mac here to suit all budgets. All of these apps can open and edit both DOC and DOCX files – the standard format now used in MS Word. There are considerably more paid Word alternatives on Mac than there are free ones but even the paid ones are all significantly cheaper than buying.
The Mac App Store, now two years old and offering just under 16,000 apps, is chock-full of great resources for Mac users.
Whether your passion is photography, writing or gaming, the Mac App Store has a program that can help you do it better.
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While it offers many excellent industry-specific programs in fields like design, music production and photography, we searched for apps useful to the widest array of users. Loads of these desktop apps are free, but a few are worth your wallet. In the gallery above, we've compiled 18 paid apps worth the money.
Have a favorite paid app we didn't mention? Let us know what it is in the comments.
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