WPS Office

WPS Office
Developer(s)Kingsoft Office Software
Initial release1988; 36 years ago (1988)
Stable release
WPS Office for Windows (v.12.2.0.13431)[1] / January 9, 2024; 9 months ago (2024-01-09)
Written inDelphi, C/C++
PlatformMicrosoft Windows, Android, iOS, Linux, Fire OS, HarmonyOS[2]
Available inChinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese
TypeOffice suite
LicenseProprietary
Websitewps.com

WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets,[3] previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux,[4] iOS,[5] Android,[6] Fire OS and HarmonyOS[2] developed by Zhuhai-based Chinese software developer company, Kingsoft Office Software. It also comes pre-installed on Amazon Fire tablets. WPS Office is made up of three primary components: WPS Writer, WPS Presentation, and WPS Spreadsheet.[7] By 2022, WPS Office reached a number of more than 494 million monthly active users and over 1.2 billion installations.[8][9]

The personal basic version previously free to use (is still free, but the features and functions are severely limited); it now requires a subscription to use all features. Standard plan and professional plan are available as a subscription. WPS Office 2016 was released in 2016.[10] As of 2019, the Linux version is developed and supported by a volunteer community rather than Kingsoft itself.[11]

The product has had a long history of development in China under the name "WPS" and "WPS Office". For a time, Kingsoft branded the suite as "KSOffice" for the international market, but later returned to "WPS Office". Since the release of WPS Office 2005, the user interface is similar to that of Microsoft Office products, and it supports Microsoft document formats in addition to its own files.

  1. ^ "Latest Version Features | Free WPS Office". WPS. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
  2. ^ a b Sarkar, Amy (June 10, 2021). "WPS office will come pre-installed on Huawei HarmonyOS phones: Kingsoft Office". Huawei Central. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
  3. ^ "What is WPS Office and. wps File Format - Kingsoft Office". Ksosoft.com. Archived from the original on September 15, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
  4. ^ "Free Office Software for Linux | WPS Office Online". WPS. Retrieved June 29, 2022.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference IOS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Download Kingsoft free office app for Android". Kingsoftstore.com. Archived from the original on July 4, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  7. ^ "WPS Office Home Page". wps.com.
  8. ^ "Kingsoft Office Launches WPS Office 2020 in the UK with Apple's Recommendation" (Press release). September 10, 2019.
  9. ^ "About WPS Office". Kingsoft Office. June 21, 2021.
  10. ^ "WPS Office Officially Releases WPS 2016 for Windows". wps.com.
  11. ^ "WPS Office for Linux Update Available to Download - OMG! Ubuntu!". OMG! Ubuntu!. April 2, 2019. Retrieved September 19, 2019.