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Rutba Office · free and open source

Thirteen office apps in one free download, and only Talk asks you to sign in.

Mail, calendar, contacts, documents, spreadsheets, slides, PDF, pictures, image editing, video, a recorder that can stream live, messages and calls, and databases, on a desktop engine we wrote ourselves. It reads the Microsoft formats, old .doc, .xls and .ppt files included, and the Outlook archives you already have. It works with the network switched off, only Talk asks for an account (a free Rutba one), and it has had a release every few days since the first.

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Rutba Office in a short film

The apps, what they open and how they work without an account or a connection.

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The Rutba Office launcher, with its thirteen applications as tiles above a row of templates and quick starts, and a list of recent files below, each with its kind and when it was opened

The launcher, photographed from the real application by its own build.

What is in it

A whole suite, not a document editor

One installer, thirteen applications, no per-app licence. Every picture below is the real application, captured by its own build on sample files.

The Documents app showing a report titled Quarterly Review, with Office’s Home ribbon of Clipboard, Font, Paragraph and a gallery of styles above a ruler, a heading and a summary paragraph, and Page 1 of 2 and the word count in the status bar

Documents

Pages as you type, and everything Word puts on them

The Worksheets app showing a sales workbook: eight regions with quarterly figures, a bold total row computed by formula, a share column in percentages, and a column chart drawn from the figures

Worksheets

Real formulas, real recalculation

The Presentations app showing a title slide, Quarterly Review, in the Harbour design with a blue band along the foot and three figure cards in blue, and a rail of three slide thumbnails down the side, the second with a column chart and the third with a table

Presentations

Slides that survive the round trip

The Mail app showing a conversation list with sender avatars, unread and starred filters and the folder and archive list, with the conversation RE: Q3 numbers are in open in the reading pane, its sender, date and reply buttons above the message

Mail

Every account, every archive, one inbox

The PDF app showing the first page of a four-page annual review, with its heading, key figures and a table of freight by region, Comment, Fill & Sign and Redact tabs on the ribbon, and the pages as thumbnails down the side

PDF

Read, comment, fill, sign, redact and put pages in order

The Video app with a project open: the title Our year at Northbank over a sunset on the preview, a timeline of four pictures with fades between them, a title, a picture in picture and a callout on the track above, a music track with its waveform below, and a properties panel with two markers and the sources

Video

A player, an editor and introduction videos, without a render farm

The Recorder app recording a document window with the camera’s stand-in test picture in a circle in its bottom right corner and a title band reading Imogen Hartley, Northbank Logistics, quarterly review; the scenes listed on the left with Screen and camera chosen, and the sources on the right: the window picked, the camera, the microphone with its level and the title

Recorder

Record your screen, camera and voice as one video, and stream it live

The Data Files app with a walking club’s database open: the Members table’s twelve records with names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, addresses, membership types and joining dates, and down the side its tables, the query Renewals due, two forms and the report Payments by member

Data Files

Tables of records, related to each other, in one file

The Talk app signed in, with six contacts down the left, each showing whether they are available, busy, away or offline, and a conversation with Ben Ortiz open: his messages on the left, the replies on the right, the Call and Video buttons above and a box to write in below

Talk

Messages and calls with your contacts

The Image app with a picture open, the Home ribbon of file, clipboard, text recognition, rotate, straighten, crop and size tools, a column of tools down the left, and a panel of light and colour sliders

Image

Crop, correct, select, paint, layer, export

The Pictures app showing a picture of hills at sunset in the viewer, a strip of thumbnails along the bottom, Copy Text on the viewer’s bar, and a details panel with star ratings, tags, format, dimensions, size and date

Pictures

A viewer that stays quick on a folder of thousands

The Calendar app showing a month grid with meetings on weekday mornings and afternoons, a repeating stand-up on Mondays, an all-day entry over two days, a small month picker, and a banner offering to add the events of an opened file

Calendar

Meetings, kept on your own machine

The Contacts app showing an address book grouped by initial with coloured monogram avatars, and a detail pane giving one person’s job title, organisation, work email, telephone number and postal address

Contacts

The address book Mail completes from

What each app opens, writes and does is on office.rutba.io/apps, and every feature picture is in the tour. Every template has a guide of its own on office.rutba.io/templates, and so does each of Data Files’ twenty-five sample businesses.

The obvious question

Why would a business-software company give this away?

The engine already existed

Rutba Workspace needed to read and write .docx and .xlsx without damaging them, so that engine got built. A desktop suite is a better use of it than a drawer.

Every file it opens is a test

A format engine is only as good as the number of real documents it has met. Thousands of people opening their own awkward spreadsheets in it is worth more to us than a licence fee for the desktop half.

Published, so it can be checked

Under the AGPL, with a commercial licence for anyone embedding it. Software that claims to send nothing anywhere should be readable by the person deciding whether to believe that.

Came for the free suite and run a business? Mail at your own domain, files, documents, chat, meetings and phone, each logging back to the customer or order it concerns, are what Rutba sells.

See Rutba Workspace

Nothing on this page needs an account, and the desktop suite has none to offer. Downloads, source and the issue tracker are all on office.rutba.io.

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One account across all of it. Sign in once and the products know each other.

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Documents, sheets and slides on your own desktop.

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