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Work Smarter with AutoText in Collabora Online

Tired of retyping the same phrases, boilerplate text, or technical terms? With AutoText in Collabora Online, you can save and instantly reuse commonly used snippets — streamlining your document creation process. Whether it’s standard replies, legal clauses, or frequently used expressions, AutoText helps you stay consistent, save time, and reduce...

Collabora Office 25.04 – Powering Productive, Private, and Fast Desktop Editing

While Collabora Online is our flagship product – delivering best-in-class, in-browser collaborative document editing – we know that working offline remains a key requirement for many users and organisations. That’s why we’re excited to announce the latest release of our powerful desktop suite: Collabora Office 25.04. Collabora Office 25.04 shares...

Collabora Office 25.04 for Mobile – Fast, Friendly, and Feature-Filled

The latest release of Collabora Office 25.04 for Android, iOS and ChromeOS brings powerful document editing and viewing to your fingertips, backed by the same technology that powers our flagship product, Collabora Online. The mobile app offers a highly capable WYSIWYG experience – perfect for quick edits, document reviews, or...

Fixing a critical loadurl performance issue under Android

TL;DR Stalls in document loading were traced back to issues with the long-string handling abilities of Android’s Webview loadUrl method. Implementing an alternative websocket-based approach eliminated the problem. Introduction Everyone wants snappy scrolling and quick loading documents, so a design issue in the Android Webview loadurl method appeared to make...

What Makes Software Sovereign? (Hint: It’s Not Where It’s Made)

“Proprietary software can be just as big a liability to digital sovereignty when it’s produced in Germany as big tech from the US.” Miriam Seyffarth from the Open Source Business Alliance joins us to make the case that true sovereignty isn’t about where software is ‘made’ – it’s about how...

Why Collabora Online Calc is the Excel Replacement For You

Whether you’re deep into data analysis or simply need a reliable spreadsheet for your day-to-day work, Collabora Online’s Calc delivers. With robust performance, excellent compatibility, and a ever-growing list of powerful features, Calc is a true open-source alternative to Microsoft Excel. Here’s why it might be the spreadsheet solution you’ve...