I'd suggest installing both Numbers and one or both of the others, trying both for a few months, then making a decision. Here's a link to an article comparing OpenOffice and LibreOffice. There are several people, some of them participating in this community, and in the Pages community who use both-Numbers AND Excel, OpenOffice or LibreOffice. If what you do is shared with MS Excel users (and edited at both ends of that link) Apache OpenOffice or LibreOffice, designed to more closely match the features of MS Excel could be the better choice. The latter has OneDrive and SharePoint applications for collaboration. In terms of functionalities, file sharing and collaboration is much easier with Microsoft Office. If you are open to creating more 'Numbers like" documents (tending to use several single purpose tables on the same or separate sheets, as opposed to the Excel like vast ocean of rows and columns with islands of data), then Numbers is a better choice. Pricing: While LibreOffice is an open source office suites software, Microsoft Office is license based. If your intended documents will be massive, Numbers will likely get bogged down. Why would you use a #2 Robertson when a pair of tweezers is available?Īn extreme example, I realize, and depending on where you live, you may not even know what a #2 Robertson is, but an apt one in that Numbers design goals and those of OpenOffice (and LibreOffice) are quite different, as becomes obvious after using them for a while.Īssuming equal familiarity with both, you'd choose the tool that was best for the task you were currently engaged in, who you share the results with, the expected size of your documents, and several other factors.
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