OOReader Reviews

by Hotels.com App

I have used OOReader for years and have found it to be efficient and reliable. However, it has begun to completely shut down when moving about half way through a document. It has never done this before so Pam not certain what is happening. The document I use the most with OOReader is only 10 pages long, so it’s not too large. Must be a big, but wish it could be solved!!!

by DRM 87654383557

This software (as explained on its webpage), does the conversion by uploading your document to the internet and then scanning and converting it. Your original document is then deleted from its servers.

I have no reason to believe they will use my files in a bad way. BUT, I also have no reason to trust everyone in their organization with my files.

by Acrisis

I am not going to upload documents with personally identifiable information, financial data, important correspondence, etc. to an unknown entity to convert my info, so I can view a copy on a mobile device.

by Grimoire_games

On my first session I got a bug alert popup written in broken English that my pdf was ... Too big? Dunno. Couldn’t view it.

Forcing users to watch google ads in popup windows is also against everything that FOSS stands for. oof

by Cjclarke1962

Has no search function! I have my library set up in an Open Office spreadsheet which has just short of 5300 lines. Without a search function it takes forever to find out if I have a particular book or author. I could NOT recommend this to anyone

by Migi2010

I paid for the ad free version and it’s been great. But all of a sudden when I try to get documents for review from my cloud (Mac to iPhone) it says the files are “empty” when they clearly are not. It’s very annoying because I can’t always be carrying my laptop around.

by Ginobean

it's pulling an older version of a document (probably cached version) rather than always retrieving latest version from dropbox. not good, and also annoying.

this is pretty basic stuff that you (developer) need to get right..

basically works, but if i can't rely on it to get latest version from dropbox, that's a pretty basic FAIL..

by ManiacalMatt

Pay for upgraded version and I still get ads. Shame on you.

by Azayzel

I usually avoid Open Office formatted documents when possible; however, there's always one or two that crops up where the writer neglected to export as a more commonly accepted format (doc or PDF).

Unfortunately, there aren't any decent OO programs for the iPad, yet this viewer is one of the few viewer apps where you don't need to "convert the document in the cloud." The major shortcoming is the HUGE ad at the bottom of every file you open.

If you didn't have to convert the item online, the best viewer would be doctape. Remove the garbage ads and OOReader will be much better.

by DgOnAS

This is a very nice app for who wants cross-platform access to their LibreOffice and pdf documents. The synchronization with cloud storage is great but -given the latest debacle with Dropbox cutting off RHEL OS- it would be nice to have more cross-platform storage options, I am particular fond of pCloud, hopefully they’ll manage to support it soon...

One detail for equation rendering in OO Draw: rline ... lline (absolute value) pairs fail to render correctly, showing boxes instead (occasionally only rline shows up correctly...)

by Danewgui2

I can tell OOReader works, and that you are constantly updating (not every week), however certain files have problems with loading. Goes halfway and stops with an error message (suddenly I don't remember what it said). I suggest removing ads while it loads to reroute the processing power to the loading document.

by JAHisplaying

My main use case are small downloads from a Pinyin annotation website where the .odt file has many text boxes with Pinyin above the Chinese characters. However, I also tested it with large text files with embedded images, multiple page spreadsheets, presentations with formulas, and vector graphic files. All were converted faithfully.

Why only four stars then? The files are listed in the order of most recently imported. The simple list of files suits my needs except I want to adjust the order of them to be the order that I use them in my meetings. Most programs when providing an edit button for a file list support both deleting and file re-ordering. this app allows deleting but not re-ordering.

by Lavi DaLace

I have used Open Office for a long time now and I'm excited I can carry some of my spreadsheets with me, The premium option delivers what it promises.
OO reader deserves a 5 star rating except for it doesn't carry over the fonts on the original spreadsheet and although it's only a reader, I'd love to be able to hi-lite something that needs to be attended to later on the computer.
I could be persuaded to pay $10 for an ipad version of the Open Office for pc. It's that good.

by Hebedebe

UPDATE: It's working great after the latest update! Thx!

Original review: As another user shared, every time I try to open something, OOReader gives me a "Conversion error. System error." message. Disappointing! Please fix this... I wouldn't mind upgrading if OOReader actually worked! I'm on a 2nd gen iPod Touch running iOS 5.1.1.

by MallardDrake

Docs and spreadsheets made with OpenOffice/LibreOffice and stored in Google Drive (or elsewhere in the cloud) can be opened with OOReader. It’s for reading only; you can’t edit a document, but when using an iPad you can view your .odt or .ods file. Works well, so 5 stars from me.

by AnimesushiluverHK

Thank you so much for OOReader. After my mac broke, I bought a PC, but would have to buy a Windows version of Word so decided to use Open Office in the meanwhile. Then I made an exam 'cheat sheet' and tiredly emailed it to me in opd format. I had no access to my computer at that point and soon freaked out. Then I found your app, could format to PDF in only seconds! Without your app, I would have been 🙀
Thanks!

by Brooks Wad

Great resource to open your odt files. Even when Dropbox can't read the file you can choose to open using OOReader from the bottom right icon on the iPhone 4S. Note: It only worked once when I first installed it and I had to cut the phone off and back on. After that, no more problems. I love the fact you can forward the file as an email attachment. I haven't tried the print option yet. Thanks for the great app!

by Roy_11788

Was able to read a Hebrew document that was opened from a mail item.

by Mourningdoves

I can now carry my LibreOffice lists with me for boring errands. Once I paid for it, the ads went away the next time I rebooted the phone.

by Texxasrose

Thank you so much for the update! Works great now. I tried WPS (Apple broke it last week) and Word, but neither worked as great as OpenOffice!

Please update soon. No other app seems to want to open ODT files, despite what they may claim. This used to be how I read in bed every night, and I miss it a lot.

And still broken with 13.1.2

I use OOReader daily, but Apple managed to BREAK EVERYTHING with their 13.1.1 update. Now crashes after scrolling through a couple of pages.