WPS Office
| WPS Office | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Kingsoft Office Software |
| Initial release | 1988 |
| Stable release | WPS Office for Windows (v.12.2.0.13431)
/ January 9, 2024 |
| Written in | Delphi, C/C++ |
| Platform | Microsoft Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux, Fire OS, HarmonyOS |
| Available in | Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese |
| Type | Office suite |
| License | Proprietary
|
| Website | wps |
WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Fire OS and HarmonyOS developed by the Chinese company Kingsoft Office Software. It comes pre-installed on Amazon Fire tablets. WPS Office is made up of WPS Writer, WPS Slides, and WPS Sheets. In 2022, WPS Office had over 494 million monthly active users and over 1.2 billion installations.
The personal basic version is free to use, however a subscription is required to use all features. The WPS Pro and WPS AI versions are available as subscriptions. WPS Office 2016 was released in 2016. As of 2019, the Linux version is developed and supported by a volunteer community rather than Kingsoft itself.
The product has had a long history of development in China under the name "WPS" and "WPS Office". For a time, Kingsoft branded the suite as "KSOffice" for the international market, but later returned to "WPS Office". Since the release of WPS Office 2005, the user interface has been similar Microsoft Office, and it supports Microsoft document formats, which are now used by default, in addition to its own.