Rather stick with Pages when it comes to that. Pages has certainly gone through some waves of where maybe some features were missing or something wasn't ideal, but 10 years later it's so fast and responsive, it makes any other Office suite behave like an old beat up horse.
You kinda have to try out Pages and Keynote etc to really understand why they are superior. Maybe not in features, but the speed at which you can put things in, tweak things, move stuff around and so on.
At least that's my personal opinion on this. I don't use these apps every day though, as I'm primarily a programmer.
there's so many apps, I'm sorta where murakami was to filter out novels he'd consider reading. A good app needs to be validated through the sands of time before I consider replacing something that already exists on my machine (and was probably free).
"Word wants a subscription. Pages is a lot of app. TextEdit tops out at bold and italic."
No it doesn't? format>font has bold, italic, underline, outline, super/subscript, and more?
It used to have strikethru too, annoyingly now you have to open the fonts window and access it through a dropdown in there instead of a single hotkey. Notes still has a strikethru menu item but the ⌘k hotkey got stolen for "make hyperlink".
a couple years ago i read a blog post about someone talking about how fragmentation in word processors work, explaining that most word processors started as "this software does only what i need, and will not have X feature that Y has because it's annoying/bloated" [0].
If it's really fully compatible with docx files, I'm very interested in this. No matter the advances Apple makes with the M chips, Office apps are always slow to open. Not to mention the obligatory background services.
From the comparison image it looks like the goal is functional compatibility, not render compatibility. The table borders change and the layout changes.
I've never understood the appeal of minimal writing apps. They've got beautiful UIs, but I could theoretically do everything here on a normal writing app, couldn't I?
I flagged it because it looked like a low-effort vibe-coded cash-grab app that doesn’t do anything novel that Pages doesn’t, and the submitter has zero other history (reinforcing it’s a cash-grab).
The OP not responding to any of the claims also reinforces this.
You kinda have to try out Pages and Keynote etc to really understand why they are superior. Maybe not in features, but the speed at which you can put things in, tweak things, move stuff around and so on.
At least that's my personal opinion on this. I don't use these apps every day though, as I'm primarily a programmer.