Do you miss using Word Online? When writing a document, we are used to using applications such as Microsoft's Office, Apple's iWork or other free options such as OpenOffice or Libreoffice. All of them are perfectly valid options that allow us create any text document, a spreadsheet, a presentation...
But it is likely that on some occasion we will find ourselves on a computer that does not have any of these applications or similar installed, and we find ourselves in the need to write a document perfectly formatting it (bold, italic, tabs, bullets ...). This is where online word processors are our salvation. In this article we show you the best online word processors.
Online word processors allow us to create any type of document through the browser without having to install any application at any time, which makes them the best options when we need to create documents and the computer on which we we find you do not have any valid application, and I'm not talking about the typical notes application that natively includes the operating system in which we are.
Google Docs
Google offers us a complete office suite through the browser and the Google Drive storage system. Thanks to Google Drive, we can create any type of document, be it a text document, a spreadsheet or a presentation. Obviously text formatting options are somewhat limited but the most basic and used to create any document are available.
If we want to use this service on our smartphone or tablet, Google will force us to download the corresponding applications for mobile devices, so it is not an option to take into account we want to create a document on a device of this type. The only requirement is the same as always when we talk about Google and its services, have a Gmail account. All the documents that we create can be stored in Google Drive to be able to access from any other device.
Word Online
Google is not the only great technology that makes a word processor available to us through the browser, but Microsoft also makes a version of it available to the user. Word online and free through the browser.
The only requirement to be able to create this type of document is to have a Microsoft account, either @ hotmail.com, @ hotmail.es, @ outlook.com ... All the documents that we create we can store directly in our account Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage.
Apple Pages
Apple's word processor, integrated into the iWork suite and available for download completely free of charge through the Mac App Store, also allows us to access the word processor online. It is only necessary to have an Apple ID, something that you will already have if you use any product of the company based in Cupertino, otherwise you can open an account perfectly without having to pay anything.
Pages offers us a large number of templates that we can edit to create the document we need at any given time. All documents created are stored in the 5 GB of free space that Apple offers us through iCloud. Pages shows us an interface very similar to the one we can access with Word Online, with a large number of options available.
StackEdit
Unlike the previous two options, the web word processor StackEdit It does not require us to have to open an account to be able to use this excellent service, which can be a plus depending on the type of users we are. This editor is aimed at all those people who write on online websites such as blogs, since it allows us to send written content directly to the blog and in this way do not use the blog desktop that we use to write the articles or documents.
Although we can use it perfectly from a smartphone or tablet, something that we cannot do with the previous two options, if we want to save the document we cannot do it, since it is stored directly in the browser, something that we can do from a computer. What we can do is store content on Google Drive or Dropbox, both from a mobile device and from a computer.
writeURL
If not only do we find ourselves in the need to write a formatted document on a computer that does not have a word processor, but also the document has to be collaborative with other people, things get complicated, but fortunately writeURL is the solution to our problems in web version. Once the document is created we have the option of saving it on our computer in Word format.
Hemingway
Hemingway More than an online word processor, it is an aid when writing texts in English, since it allows us to check at all times the type of writing we are using, whether they are very short or too long texts. The problem, as I have commented is that only works in english, but if we give it a little time, it is likely that soon it will also appear in Spanish.
Draft
Draft is the older brother of StackEdit, since it offers us the same but expanded options, allowing us to store the documents created in Dropbox or Google Drive in addition to opening them directly from these cloud storage services. The publication for bloggers offers us many more options than those we can find in StackEdit but if we do not like to create accounts in any service, we have bad news, since Draft does It will force us to open an account on this platform in order to use it freely.
ZenPen
ZenPen is a very simple word processor but it offers us the minimum needs that we can use to create any formatted document. It allows us to expand the size of the screen so that only the text that we write on the screen is shown, invert the colors of the screen, add a word counter and save the documents in Markdown, HTML and Plain Text formats. We do not need to register, we just have to open the web and write.
Writer
Writer offers us a word processor with the aesthetics of MS-DOS, with a black background with green letters, like the phosphor monitors that were used in the early 80's. Writer like Zenpen eliminates any kind of distraction on the screen so we can focus on what is really important. This service requires that we create an account in order to use the service.
typWrittr
typWrittr offers us a different way when it comes to create documents online for free, which requires an account to be able to use it. As we can see in the image above, this free online word processor allows us to select a background image according to our tastes or the theme we are writing to serve as inspiration.
ZohoWriter
ZohoWriter It offers us a very similar aspect to what we can find in any word processor to use, where we can select the font, size, cut and paste text, format the text ... also allow them to export the document to be able to open it later with an editor Office type desktop. Aesthetics reminds us a lot of the Word Online version which we talked about at the beginning of this article.