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20+ Best Microsoft Word Alternatives for iPhone (2026)
Microsoft Word is S tier, #2 of 28 in document editing. Here is everything that competes with it on iPhone, in tier order.
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 3,281,657 ratings · score 99Creates, edits, and shares online documents with real-time collaboration, comments, and offline editing. - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 576,381 ratings · score 96Document app for writing, layout, and design on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with templates and real-time collaboration. - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 26,158 ratings · score 94Edits, fills, signs, scans, and converts PDFs on iPhone, with an AI assistant for summaries, rewrites, and grammar… - 5
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 29,323 ratings · score 91Views, scans, annotates, fills, signs and shares PDF files on iPhone and iPad. - 6
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 7,534 ratings · score 90Mobile PDF app for scanning, editing, signing, converting, protecting and reading PDF files on iPhone and iPad. - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 44,779 ratings · score 88Mobile office suite for creating and editing Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files on iPhone and iPad. - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 52,043 ratings · score 86Scans, converts, edits, annotates, and signs PDF documents. - 9
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 9,114 ratings · score 83Mobile app for editing, eSigning, sharing and storing PDF documents, with access to a library of fillable templates. - 10
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 4,672 ratings · score 82Free file manager and mini office suite for viewing and editing documents, spreadsheets, photos and media on iPhone. - 11
Free · ★ 4.7 · 8,871 ratings · score 81Free iOS app for viewing, printing, annotating, editing pages, filling forms and signing PDF files. - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 3,748 ratings · score 79Free app for iPhone, iPad and Mac to edit, convert, OCR, sign, annotate and share PDF files. - 13
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 4,763 ratings · score 78IOS PDF app to view, edit, annotate, convert and sign PDFs, with subscription features such as an AI Assistant and OCR. - 14
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 9 ratings · score 72Edits, signs, organizes and manages PDF documents, including rearranging pages and adding text and custom elements. - 15
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 10,318 ratings · score 72PDF viewer and editor for iPhone and iPad that lets you annotate, fill and sign forms, and manage PDF pages and files. - 16
Free · ★ 4.5 · 43,725 ratings · score 71Mobile office suite for editing spreadsheet and rich text files on iPhone and iPad, with online and offline use. - 17
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 25,711 ratings · score 69Quip is a productivity app combining chat, docs, slides, and spreadsheets for team collaboration across iPhone, iPad… - 18
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 37 ratings · score 69Scans paper documents and lets users edit, sign, convert, and organize PDFs. - 19
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 7,573 ratings · score 68Free PDF app for reading, editing, scanning, converting, annotating, signing, and sharing PDF files. - 20
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 9,676 ratings · score 68Mobile app to create, view, edit, share and manage Word documents and other file formats. - 21
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,235 ratings · score 67Notes, PDF markup, a built-in browser and AI help for writing, reading and research on iPad and iPhone. - 22
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 2,143 ratings · score 66Productivity app by Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG on the App Store. - 23
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 2,624 ratings · score 66Productivity app by Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG on the App Store. - 24
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 22,235 ratings · score 65Reads, edits, signs, scans and organizes PDFs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro and Apple Watch. - 25
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 7,326 ratings · score 65Productivity app by Kairoos Solutions S.L. on the App Store. - 26
$4.99 · ★ 4.5 · 4,505 ratings · score 58Office suite and file manager for iPhone that edits spreadsheet, text, and image files and transfers files to cloud. - 27
Free download · ★ 4.3 · 2,951 ratings · score 52Productivity app by Savy Soda Pty Ltd on the App Store. - 28
Free download · ★ n/a · 0 ratings · score 25Edits existing PDF text on iPhone, with options to sign, fill forms, highlight and erase content.
Questions people ask
- What is the best alternative to Microsoft Word on iPhone?
- Google Docs, S tier, #1 in document editing.
- Is there a free alternative to Microsoft Word?
- Yes: Google Docs (S tier, #1) is free to download, with in-app purchases.
- Does anything rank above Microsoft Word?
- Yes. 1 app ranks above it in document editing: Google Docs (#1).