OfficeSuite Home & Business 2023 - Lifetime License - Documents, Sheets, Slides, PDF, Mail & Calendar for Windows

This is going to be a short review as I failed to realise that the OfficeSuite Home and Business 2023 pack will only work on Windows machines and not Android and iOS. As a Mac user I didn’t expect it to work on Apple machines but it’s still a bit disappointing. Whereas the other versions of the software come with annual subscriptions, like MS Office, this at £73 at time of review, is a one-off purchase. As a result it costs a bit more and only 5Gb of cloud storage is available. This compares reasonably favourably with MS Office annual subscriptions. However, open source versions are available so you’re really paying for a relatively clean copy, some support, and the cloud storage. As a MS Office user I was hoping to offer comparisons between the software but can’t as it won’t run on any of my hardware. So a neutral 3 star review. Check you have Windows 10 or 11 if you want this iteration of the software!

Ive worked in IT for decades. Ive got Microsoft/Citrix/AWS etc qualifications and I use MS Office 2021/365 daily. I though Id have a quick look at this and see what its all about. 1. Delivery - its supplied in something that looks like a CD slip case, inside there is a card with a license activation key. 2. Installation - absolutely fine. Ive spent a significant portion of the last 20 years configuring Microsoft products to deploy software remotely and this installed easily on a Windows 11 machine with Office 2021 installed. If you have problems with the installation it could be a compatibility issue with Office 365 or it could be an issue with malware protection, I had no problems. 3. Products a. Mail - pretty basic Outlook clone. Managed to get it to connect to my gmail account in a few seconds. Overall its okay b. Slides - Powerpoint clone. I deliver a lot of presentations (most of my day job is now AWS Training delivery) from a presentation point of view it looks almost identical to Powerpoint, a couple of minor niggles - you cannot change the screen that you presenting from WITHIN the presentation itself, you have to come out make the change and then go back in...makes it difficult to use if you need to change the screen regularly during a presentation. A few other niggles as well when creating a presentation but nothing major. c. Documents - A Word clone. Im currently writing a thesis in Word, which contains a bibliography...this doesnt contain that functionality at all. Fairly basic word processor. d. Sheets - I dont do much in spreadsheets these days (I used to do lots of engineering calculations a long time ago). Looks fairly basic - all the usual functions are there, I couldnt see any way of doing a pivot table but that doesnt mean the functionality isnt there. e. PDF - lets you open and annotate PDF files. There are some basic security controls in and it look very similar to many other open source PDF management solutions that Ive used over the years. One thing that was consistent across the products is that the help is online and pretty poor in my opinion. What you are paying for is a stable build, some support and a bit of cloud storage. If you are a home user I would say that it probably covers all your needs. There are other products out there that will also meet your needs as well, and some of them are free. I do feel that at this price point some more cloud storage would have perhaps swayed my opinion more. Im giving it 4 stars as I feel positive towards it as a suite of products and it has been quite stable on my machine so far.

If it really is for lifetime then it is good , gives basic functions which is good as I really dont use all the functions on office and I feel I am wasting money. I am glad to cancel the monthly subscription.

Its good just needs to provide available instructions to make the most out of it. I guess google dosent have all the info after all lmao

I was looking forward to testing this software alongside my MS office for comparison but it will not install if office is installed. This is pretty poor software design; I am an IT engineer by trade and I have used other free open-source versions of office and had no problems running the two side by side. I am not going to go in to trying to fix the product to try and make it work, it simply isn’t worth my time to try and test it as flawed software, I shouldn’t have to debug to get it to work for testing. I cannot recommend it the software from what I can see the only difference between other free for life office software online and this product is the cloud storage and the support that is offered with this product, which at £72.99 is quite steep for support and for a small bit ‘cloud’ storage (which also relies on the company being around for “life” to continue working) I can’t comment on other features in the software that might unlock with this licence as it didn’t work. I won’t be recommending this to my commercial customers, but if you are a domestic user that has no other office installed then your mileage may vary.

Whereas Microsoft Office only gives you a year or 3 year option, this is a lifetime version. One fee covers you permanently. Easily installed and easy to navigate. Actually more user friendly than Microsoft Office in my opinion. Very good value.

The fact that a lot of the features for these products are available for free, i dont think its worth the extra money for what you get in addition. The plus point is that this is a lifetime subscription, unlike Microsoft Office which is usually for a finite time. I didnt have any issue installing this package.

Love the product!

Nothing wrong similar software office

OfficeSuite Home and Business Lifetime License. This 5 in 1 package gives you lifetime usage of the OfficeSuite software that contains a document writer, spreadsheet, presentations, mail and pdf functions. Its an affordable alternative to Microsoft Office and I personally like the fact OfficeSuite sell this as a one off lifetime rather than a subscription model. This software isnt compatible with macOS however it works perfectly on my Windows 11 PC. Installation was quick and straightforward, I linked it to my Google account which didnt take long at all. OfficeSuite provide a folded CD case shaped cardboard pamphlet (No CD provided, product needs to be downloaded) which contains the software activation key. The key was easy to read and my activation went through without issue. Functionality wise the software isnt bad at all, its simple and straightforward to use and has a lot of similarities to Microsoft Office. OfficeSuite provided 5GB of Cloud Storage with this package which is handy if youre running it on multiple devices. Overall I have to say its a really useful package of office software at a competitive price. It has plenty of features and its worked fine for me without any issues.