#Icloud keynote offline free#

#Icloud keynote offline free#

The sole advantage that iWork for iCloud holds is that it can be used free of charge for work-related tasks. Office, for all the potential for problems down the line, remains the standard productivity suite in both commercial and consumer markets. developer has significantly improved Office Online in the interim.

Since 2013, Microsoft has not only handed out Excel, PowerPoint and Word apps to iPad- and iPhone-owning consumers - albeit with some advanced features requiring an Office 365 subscription - but the Redmond, Wash.

company launched the free iWork and iWork for iCloud, that was before Microsoft started giving away its Office iOS apps to consumers. The availability of iWork for iCloud will tempt few if any Windows-only consumers: They have free access to Microsoft's own Web apps, dubbed Office Online.Īlthough analysts thought that Apple's move might draw some Windows users when the Cupertino, Calif. Starting in the fall of 2013, Apple began giving away the iOS and OS X iWork apps to new buyers of iPhones, iPads and Macs iWork for iCloud is the browser-based side of those apps. IWork for iCloud, which has been in beta for more than a year and a half, is Apple's productivity answer to Microsoft's Office.