# AbleWord Reviews **Vendor:** Ableword **Category:** [Document Creation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/document-creation) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About AbleWord AbleWord is a word processing and PDF editing application. ## AbleWord Reviews ### 1. File processing and reading software tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pankaj M. | Technical Lead, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2022 **What do you like best about AbleWord?** It is easy to use and uncluttered. Spelling mistakes are easily checked. It has clean UI and design. **What do you dislike about AbleWord?** There is no such dislike about it. But it has limited file association setting. **What problems is AbleWord solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast, effective and easy to use tool that can convert documents into the user friendly format. It becomes very much easy for someone to understand the document with the format provided by this tool. ### 2. Easy to use PDF editor. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankita G. | S, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2022 **What do you like best about AbleWord?** Functionality and all the features. It is good replacement of adobe reader. **What do you dislike about AbleWord?** UI looks old. color in the ui is not very much appealing. **What problems is AbleWord solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is pdf editor. I use it on daily basis to edit my PDFs. ### 3. Versatile word processing software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ali K. | Multi-Department Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2022 **What do you like best about AbleWord?** What I like best about ableword is that it is capable of reading and writing multiple file types, making it useful for many users. It can transcribe documents into Microsoft documents or PDF. **What do you dislike about AbleWord?** In my time using ableword, I did not have any dislikes or difficulty using the platform. It is simple to use and easy to learn, and also offers straight forward instructions. **What problems is AbleWord solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits I have realized is being able to successfully transcribe my documents into the format I prefer. ### 4. Free easy to use word and pdf editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** prateek b. | Full Stack Developer @ Capgemini, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2021 **What do you like best about AbleWord?** It's free We can use and simple edit word documents, create and update. also, create pdf documents. Easy to install small size app, easy to use. I did not have an office subscription and I had to open word documents on the cloud each time, this small editor saved my problem. I can easily open and edit a word document, convert it to pdf, make a pdf document easily. **What do you dislike about AbleWord?** As this is a free app, I do not found any dislike in this. **What problems is AbleWord solving and how is that benefiting you?** I did not have an office subscription, using this I can easily open and edit a word documents. ### 5. Missing support for latest security patches and grammar check **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aakash P. | Senior Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about AbleWord?** The user interface is the best I can say. I've tried many document editors but AbleWord is foremost the best editor in terms of editors that I've worked on. I hope the team come up with new security patches as well. **What do you dislike about AbleWord?** There are many things to dislike about this software. One of them is no security patch seems like the AlbaWord team is not doing any active development. Also, the support of grammar check is also missing. **What problems is AbleWord solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are maintaining our software requirements document with the help of this software. As some of our writers are using MacBook, I personally prefer it will be good if the team comes up with a mac supported version as well. ### 6. Just like word but better **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2022 **What do you like best about AbleWord?** My favorite part is that it is compatible with many other document sites that I use, such as word and Google docs. You can also save with PDF and covert files. Converting to pdf is a lifesaver and it saves time. **What do you dislike about AbleWord?** It can take longer than you would expect to load files but the final product is worth it. **What problems is AbleWord solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has saved me time with converting files. I've realized there is a huge benefit being able to edit within the pdf file. I never realized how time consuming it is to edit outside of the pdf to then after to save it back to pdf. ### 7. Alternate to Adobe **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** pankaj d. | Data Analyst, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about AbleWord?** User friendly and best alternate for editing PDF **What do you dislike about AbleWord?** Sometimes alignment of the documents changes when opened as word form pdf **What problems is AbleWord solving and how is that benefiting you?** editing personal pdf and making resume for the job ### 8. AbleWord **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivam R. | J, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2021 **What do you like best about AbleWord?** The UI is quite good and easy to use and makes things smooth. **What do you dislike about AbleWord?** Sometimes it takes time to launch and makes things messy. **Recommendations to others considering AbleWord:** If you are looking for a very good option to do work with reading and writing of docs. **What problems is AbleWord solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reading Docs regarding financial docs. ### 9. Very good text editor for PDF **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mariah W. | Human Resources Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2019 **What do you like best about AbleWord?** Simple text processor that allows reading and writing about text formats, but its main feature is the ability to edit on PDF. It is a free program with a very good compatibility with the different formats shown in the text. I can also convert PDF to Word documents in just a few clicks. **What do you dislike about AbleWord?** It has not been updated since March 2015, because of this, AbleWord has a slightly outdated design and does not adapt to new trends. It has very basic functionalities, mainly based on text editing. There are not many more options about creating new figures. **Recommendations to others considering AbleWord:** It is a great tool and highly recommended only for text editing. The latter should be taken into consideration if you are very interested in editing PDF, otherwise, it is preferable to search through the multitude of options offered, which have more features, although not all are free. **What problems is AbleWord solving and how is that benefiting you?** This editor is very easy to use, it has given me excellent results and when I edit PDFs I feel that I am editing a .doc or .txt file. It is vital for the creation of documents and those who constantly work with PDF. ### 10. Edit PDF Files As Simply As Word Documents! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ethel M. | Electrician, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2019 **What do you like best about AbleWord?** It is highly compatible with popular document formats including .DOC & .DOCX but Ableword can also open and save as a PDF which makes it a very useful tool to have. **What do you dislike about AbleWord?** There are many other word processors and pdf editors available online so I believe Ableword should develop a unique feature for its users to standout of the crowd. **Recommendations to others considering AbleWord:** I would for sure recommend this software to anyone looking for a capable word processing application that can read and write most popular document formats including PDF's (best of all it is totally free even for commercial use!). **What problems is AbleWord solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ableword has been very simple to install and use and helped me convert PDF to Word within seconds (it is also a splendid Word processor and supports most of Microsoft Word features) ## AbleWord Discussions - [How do I edit a PDF in AbleWord?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-edit-a-pdf-in-ableword) - 1 comment - [What is AbleWord?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ableword) - 1 comment - [View AbleWord pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ableword/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+07%3A11%3A24+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=deff69e1-eb09-4f35-8b98-558e7fcfc781&secure%5Btoken%5D=8fb5d6ce88d70cd1ed9f63668e18f7c8e38bebe4a86e37186d5fabc1140b980d&format=llm_user) ## AbleWord Features **Design** - Graphics - Templates - Themes **Collaboration** - Multi-User Collaboration - Real-Time Communication **File Types** - Export - Import - Web Publishing **Edit & Revise** - Revision History - Suggestion Mode - Document Editor **Integrate & Embed** - Calendar - Website - Applications **Operating System** - PC Operating System - Mac Operating System - Linux Operating System **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization - AI Text-to-Image - AI Text-to-Speech - AI Image-to-Text **Agentic AI - Document Creation** - Proactive Assistance ## Top AbleWord Alternatives - [Foxit PDF Editor](https://www.g2.com/products/foxit-pdf-editor/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (3,388 reviews) - [Adobe Acrobat](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-acrobat/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (4,527 reviews) - [Conga Composer](https://www.g2.com/products/conga-composer/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (834 reviews)