Office suite privacy ratings
Documents, spreadsheets and shared editing.
14 office suites are rated against 9 public criteria, and 14 have enough evidence for a letter grade. Of the 13 with a known jurisdiction, 5 are based in a Five Eyes country, and 9 in the wider Fourteen Eyes.
Open-source office suites only · Criteria for this category · Suggest an addition · Markdown
| Name | Grade | Score | Data | Jurisdiction | Open source | No trackers or telemetry | No ads or data sales | Independent audit | Transparency report | Tells users about requests | TLS configuration | Security headers | Modern web standards |
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Office and graphics suite from KDE with Words, Sheets, Stage, Karbon and other apps, using OpenDocument as its native file format. |
Grade B | 80 | 100% | Germany Fourteen Eyes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Self-hosted, real-time collaborative text editor where several people edit the same document at once, with a plugin system and an HTTP API. |
Grade B | 80 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Open source platform for self-hosting web apps. Apps are installed from the Sandstorm App Market with a few clicks, and each document or chat runs in its own isolated sandbox. |
Grade B | 80 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
End-to-end encrypted document editor built into Proton Drive, with real-time collaboration, comments and suggestions. |
Grade B | 75 | 100% | Switzerland Outside Eyes | Partial | Partial | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested yet |
Online office suite based on LibreOffice for documents, spreadsheets and presentations, with real-time collaborative editing. It is self-hosted or used through integrations such as Nextcloud. |
Grade C | 65 | 100% | United Kingdom Five Eyes | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Office suite from The Document Foundation with Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base and Math, using OpenDocument as its native file format. |
Grade C | 65 | 100% | Germany Fourteen Eyes | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
End-to-end encrypted collaboration suite with rich text, spreadsheets, presentations, Markdown, Kanban, forms, diagrams and a file drive. Use the hosted CryptPad.fr service or self-host it. |
Grade D | 56 | 100% | France Nine Eyes | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Partial | Not tested yet |
Zoho's hosted business suite with Zoho Mail, the Writer, Sheet and Show office apps, WorkDrive file storage and Cliq team chat. |
Grade D | 47 | 100% | India Outside Eyes | No | Partial | Yes | Partial | No | No | Yes | Yes | Not tested yet |
Microsoft's office suite with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneDrive, available as desktop and mobile apps and in the browser. Cloud files are stored on Microsoft's servers. |
Grade D | 44 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | No | No | No | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested yet |
Apple's free Pages, Numbers and Keynote apps for documents, spreadsheets and presentations on Mac, iPhone and iPad, also available in the browser through iCloud. |
Grade F | 35 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | No | Partial | Yes | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Office suite for documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDFs with a focus on Microsoft Office format compatibility, available as desktop editors, mobile apps, a self-hosted server and the DocSpace cloud. |
Grade F | 35 | 100% | Latvia Outside Eyes | Partial | No | Yes | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Free office suite from SoftMaker with TextMaker, PlanMaker and Presentations, compatible with Microsoft Office formats. It is a reduced version of the paid SoftMaker Office. |
Grade F | 35 | 100% | Germany Fourteen Eyes | No | Partial | Yes | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Google's browser-based word processor with real-time collaboration, part of Google Workspace alongside Sheets and Slides. Files are stored in Google Drive. |
Grade F | 34 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | No | No | No | Partial | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | Not tested yet |
Office suite from Kingsoft with word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and PDF tools, compatible with Microsoft Office formats. The free version shows ads. |
Grade F | 0 | 100% | Singapore Outside Eyes | No | No | No | No | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
Questions
What is the most private option among office suites?
No pick has been made yet. The table above is sorted by score, based on public evidence.
How are office suites rated?
Each entry answers 9 questions: open source, no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales, independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests, TLS configuration, security headers and modern web standards. Answers need links to evidence. See the full criteria.
Does jurisdiction matter?
Jurisdiction decides which laws can compel a provider to hand over data. Each entry shows its country and whether it is in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes. The data a provider can hand over depends mostly on what it stores and who holds the keys. Read about jurisdictions and the CLOUD Act.