14 DAY TRIAL // After 12 long years of satisfying the productivity needs of millions of users on all kinds of platforms, Quickoffice is bidding us farewell. Now owned by Google, the service has been integrated into the search giant’s own productivity tools, while the original apps will soon be discontinued.
An unapologetic post on Google Apps reveals that “With the integration of Quickoffice into the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps, the Quickoffice app will be unpublished from Google Play and the App Store in the coming weeks.”
The Mountain View web giant clarifies that anyone who currently owns the app can continue to use it at will, but that it will no longer be maintained with fixes and new features. Past the deadline, no one will be able to install it from the iOS App Store or Google Play.
“Existing users with the app can continue to use it, but no features will be added and new users will not be able to install the app,” the search giant adds.
After being engulfed by the Mountain View search company, Quickoffice gained a new description on the iTunes App Store. It’s currently still there by the way, if you want to download and have a go at it, and maybe even hold on to it in case Google makes changes that conflict with your productivity needs.
“This free app from Google lets you create and edit Microsoft® Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations on your iPhone and iPad,” reads the description. “Once you sign in with your Google Account, work can be saved in Google Drive, which gives you up to 15GB of free storage and lets you access your files from any mobile device or computer.”
So if you do this now, you’re still eligible for all the goodness. The app is free and ready for the taking. Google is being very thoughtful notifying customers weeks in advance, unlike Apple, which sometimes pulls its own apps without any warning whatsoever.
Quickoffice lets you create and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, access files in Google Drive as well as on your device (where you can store them), open and view PDF files, share documents through previously shared Google Drive folders, and attach files to emails.
Use the supplied links to download Quickoffice for iOS and Android. The app is localized in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. It requires iOS 5.0 on Apple devices, while the Android requirement varies by device.