ElixirOffice 0.2.0 (desktop)

ElixirOffice is a free and open source office suite (AGPLv3) for people used to Microsoft Office: documents, spreadsheets and presentations with the Office ribbon, menus, dialogs and keyboard shortcuts. It is derived from Euro-Office and ONLYOFFICE Docs. This is the desktop app: it works entirely on your computer, with no server and no account. AI is off by default.

This is a beta: keep backups of important files and check saved documents and PDF output before sharing them. The self-hosted server is a separate release (see the release history).

What's new since beta 2

• PDF files, locally: open, scroll (mouse wheel, trackpad, pinch zoom), search, select and copy text, add comments and annotations, fill in forms, print, and export an edited copy. "Save" writes your changes after the original content (the original stays intact inside the file); PDFs that cannot be saved safely (signed, encrypted, XFA, scripted, and for now those created by browsers or Word, which are "tagged") open read-only for original-file saving: use "Save a copy".
• Password-protected files: open, edit and save password-protected Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OpenDocument files; keep, change or remove the password. No automatic recovery copies are made for protected documents.
• Rename a document and choose the folder when saving a copy.
• Computer fonts: Options now shows whether your computer's fonts are enabled, with an on/off switch.
• Closing the app with unsaved changes is more robust (fixes a case where the app could not be closed).
• Home templates (letter, resume, fractions worksheet, assessment grid) in 39 languages.
• AppImage: new file name, plus update information: you can check for updates with the external AppImageUpdate tool. ElixirOffice itself never checks for updates.

Downloads and install

Platform	File	Install
Windows x64	ElixirOffice-0.2.0-win-x64.exe	Run the installer. It is not signed: SmartScreen may warn; if you trust the download choose "More info", then "Run anyway".
macOS (Apple Silicon)	ElixirOffice-0.2.0-mac-arm64.dmg	Open the image and drag ElixirOffice to Applications. It is not notarized: if macOS blocks it, use "Open Anyway" in System Settings > Privacy & Security.
Linux (any distribution)	ElixirOffice-0.2.0-x86_64.AppImage	chmod +x the file and run it. The .zsync file is for AppImageUpdate.
Debian / Ubuntu	ElixirOffice-0.2.0-linux-amd64.deb	sudo apt install ./ElixirOffice-0.2.0-linux-amd64.deb

Check your download against SHA256SUMS (Linux: sha256sum -c; macOS: shasum -a 256; Windows PowerShell: Get-FileHash). Checksums detect corruption; they do not identify the publisher.

Known limitations

• Home templates are offered in 39 languages; Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Sinhala and Urdu use the English templates (the bundled fonts lack these scripts). A few italic notes in the Arabic templates show missing characters (fix planned). In right-to-left documents, tables are not mirrored.
• Without enabling Use computer fonts in Options, text in scripts that the bundled fonts do not cover (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Sinhala, parts of Urdu) shows missing-character squares.
• PDF documents: no automatic recovery (the original file is untouched until you save), no editing of the original text yet, and a copy saved with "Save a copy" loses some of the original's structure (the app tells you).
• Not available offline: mail merge, document compare, version history, editing the original text of a PDF, OCR and PDF-to-Word conversion, plugins and macros, digital signatures, external workbook links, real-time co-editing. AI is available only in the Word editor of the desktop app.
• Windows and Linux were checked by automated tests but not yet on the final packages on real hardware. On macOS, the final package passed its static and unit checks; interactive tests (windows, wheel and pinch on this exact build, completing the Save panel for a PDF copy), physical printing, Gatekeeper and file associations were not run on it.
• The AppImage runs without the Chromium sandbox, with a warning, when the system does not allow user namespaces; the .deb does not.
• Complex formatting, fonts and embedded objects can still show conversion differences: check round trips and PDF output with your own documents.

Details, source code and licence

RELEASE-NOTES.md (attached) has the full notes, BUILD-INFO.json the exact source revisions and verification details. The corresponding source code is in elixiroffice-desktop-source.tar.gz and at github.com/leag1234/elixiroffice. Released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0; third-party licences and attributions are included. ElixirOffice is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft, Ascensio System SIA or the Euro-Office project; Microsoft, Word, Excel and PowerPoint are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

Reporting bugs

Open an issue with the release name, your system, what you did, what you expected and what happened; a screenshot helps. Attach a document only if it contains nothing private, and never attach keys or passwords. Reports about behaviour that differs from Word, Excel or PowerPoint are welcome too.