

The update will come to macOS on 20 September. This was showcased during Apple's event on 7 September 2016, where a free update (version 3.0) for iOS users was pushed out on 13 September. Update 16 September 2016: Since our review, Apple has added real-time collaboration to its iWork suite. Read about the latest updates to iWork: Pages, Keynote and Numbers, and troubleshooting advice. Pages is Apple’s main word processor, it’s popular with Apple fans but has little traction in the business world Microsoft Word remains an industry heavyweight. Our Word vs Pages review looks at these two word processors, and tests each feature. Microsoft Word offers some advanced features to paid users (more on those in a bit) but you get a better cloud storage allowance with OneDrive than Apple iCloud Drive.īoth Pages and Word are advanced text editors, but both offer slightly different features. Now both Apple's Pages and Microsoft's word are free apps. Back when we last looked at the word processor apps, Pages was free to anybody who recently purchased an iPad or iPhone.
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When we last looked at Microsoft Word for iPad it costs £5.99 a month (as part of a Office 265 subscription) and was only available on the iPad - now it has been updated and is also available as a full app on the iPhone. Both Microsoft and Apple are determined to create your word processor of choice, and both keep the targets moving constantly. Which is better: Microsoft Word or Apple Pages for iPad? How easy to use are these apps on the iPhone? Every time we look at Microsoft Word and Apple's Pages the situation changes.
Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide View more prices And now that it's available on iPhone as well as iPad you don't even need to own an iPad to use it. If you spend a lot of time working with Word documents with other people then this app will prove to be invaluable. You can now join in with them on the iPad. But if you work in an office with people sharing Microsoft Office you'll breathe a sigh of relief. For our money Pages creates better-looking documents, and Google Docs is a faster environment for collaboration. If you work alone, or with forward-thinking people, then other options offer the same functionality for a better price. Much depends on your day-to-day working existence. Whether you really need Word on your iPad is yet another thing entirely. Whether it's £5.99 per month good is, of course, another matter – we think the free version is enough for most people.

Microsoft has done a superb job though, and Word for iPad is a very good recreation of the desktop app.
