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IWork

iWork
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Pages 5.6.1.png Numbers 3.6.1.png
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iWork suite, clockwise from top left: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on macOS, and iWork for iCloud in Safari 9.
Original author(s) Apple
Developer(s) Apple
Initial release January 11, 2005; 12 years ago (2005-01-11)
Stable release
iWork / September 20, 2016; 4 months ago (2016-09-20)
Written in Objective-C, C, JavaScript
Operating system macOS, iOS
Platform Intel
ARM (A4 to A8)
PowerPC (until 2009)
Type Office suite
License Proprietary
Freeware (with eligible purchase) and commercial
Website Pages
Numbers
Keynote
iWork.com
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Available in Multilingual
Owner Apple Inc.
Website iwork.com
Alexa rank Negative increase 3,565,463 (April 2014)
Commercial Free while in beta; requires iWork '09
Registration Required (Apple ID)
Launched January 6, 2009 (2009-01-06)
Current status Discontinued July 31, 2015

iWork is an office suite of applications created by Apple Inc. for its macOS and iOS operating systems, and also available cross-platform through the iCloud website.

It includes Keynote, a presentation program; the word processing and desktop publishing application Pages; and the spreadsheet application Numbers. It is generally viewed as a prosumer office suite targeted at home and small business users, with fewer features than competitors such as Microsoft's Office for Mac and the open source LibreOffice project (and indeed its own earlier versions), but has a simpler user interface, strong touchscreen support and built-in links with Apple's iCloud document-hosting service and its Aperture and iPhoto image management applications. Apple's design goals in creating iWork have been to allow Mac users to easily create attractive documents and spreadsheets, making use of macOS's extensive font library, integrated spelling checker, sophisticated graphics APIs and its AppleScript automation framework.

The equivalent Microsoft Office applications to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, respectively. Although Microsoft Office applications cannot open iWork documents, iWork applications can export documents from their native formats (.pages, .numbers, .key) to Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt, etc.) as well as to PDF files.


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