Welcome to AbiWord!

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.

AbiWord allows you to collaborate with multiple people on one document at the same time. It is tightly integrated with the AbiCollab.net web service, which lets you store documents online, allows easy document sharing with your friends, and performs format conversions on the fly.

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Our latest stable release is version 2.8.6. It's available for a number of languages and operating systems. Release Notes | Changelog | Download.

 

Our latest development release is version 2.9.4. Development releases are aimed at developers, or people willing to test unstable software. They should not be used in a production environment. Release Notes | ChangeLog | Download.

Take a Tour

This tour explains in a nutshell what AbiWord is capable of. Have a look to see what functionality AbiWord has to offer you!

Screenshots

Screenshots let you see what AbiWord looks like while it's running. They can give you a good feel for what AbiWord is like without downloading the program.

Reviews

AbiWord is a great word processor, and has attracted a lot of attention. We've assembled a collection of the many reviews that people have written about AbiWord.

AbiWord

Oct 27, 2009
AbiWord 2.8 has been released! This milestone supports annotations, or "comments", smart quotes and native SVGs. Furthermore it includes powerful collaboration capabilities allowing multiple people to work on one document at the same time. These features are tightly integrated with a new online web service called AbiCollab.net, which lets you store documents online, allows easy document sharing with your friends, and performs format conversions on the fly.
Read the release announcement here.

Enchant

April, 2010
Enchant 1.6.0 has been released. Enchant is a new cross-platform abstract layer to spellchecking. Enchant has been proposed to be a Freedesktop.org standard.

About AbiWord

AbiWord has been created by a worldwide group of volunteers and currently supports many languages and operating systems.

AbiWord is GNU Free Software software, which means that you will always have the freedom to use it, make copies of it, and improve it. You are encouraged to make use of these freedoms and share the program with your family and friends!