LibreOffice Team Details Web and Mobile Development Plans

LibreOffice, one of the most popular free and open-source alternatives to Microsoft Office, is still only available on the desktop, and developer The Document Foundation wants to change that. The foundation acknowledged that it’s hearing “constant requests for web and mobile versions,” and it just detailed how it’s planning to get the project started in the coming months.

As you may know, the LibreOffice team already released an Android viewer app with experimental editing support for editing LibreOffice documents. For iOS users, there is the Collabora Office app, which is based on LibreOffice code and certified by The Document Foundation, but it’s not available in all markets.

“The goal for 2026 involves technical advancement in the graphical user interface (GUI) code and testing builds on Android and iOS emulators,” the team said yesterday. In addition to online and mobile versions of the suite, the LibreOffice team is also planning to implement collaborative document editing into the app.

On mobile, the Microsoft Office and Google Workspace suites are both free to use and well supported, so the LibreOffice team will be coming late to fight two juggernauts in the mobile productivity space. In a way, so is the Mozilla Foundation, which continues to work on the mobile version of its Thunderbird email client.

Microsoft and Google are also in the process of adding new AI features to their productivity apps, but some users may actually see this as a turn-off. It probably tells something that the privacy-focused DuckDuckGo search engine saw its usage surge after Google announced an AI revamp of its search engine last week.