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LibreOffice vs Marq: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 11th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 5,123 reviews from Content Management users.
% Fit
Missing features
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Secure Data Storage
NA
Website Management
NA
Customizable Branding
NA
Access Controls/Permissions
4.2
Content Publishing Options
4.6
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Secure Data Storage
NA
Website Management
NA
Customizable Branding
4.0
Access Controls/Permissions
4.0
Content Publishing Options
4.8
User satisfaction
4.3
User reviews2,209
Ease of use
4.3
Functionality
4.2
Value for money
4.7
Customer support
3.9
4.5
User reviews281
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.3
Value for money
4.4
Customer support
4.3
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Suite of document management solutions for businesses, charities and government organizations with a template repository, autocorrect dictionary, built-in wizards, and more.

Organizations with creative teams who are bogged down with design requests for marketing or sales collateral and looking to empower their non-designer colleagues with brand templates.

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Justin S
Senior DevOps Engineer
5.0

Justin: Hi, I'm Justin, DevOps engineer, and I give LibreOffice a big five out of five stars. For more reviews like these, please click the link below. Before LibreOffice, like a lot of people, I had Microsoft Office. Everybody has Office, right? It was great except I didn't really care for the price tag. It's less of an issue of getting copy at work because you can always get that, as having a copy personally, and I personally do not want to pay Microsoft indefinitely or pay a very large sum of money for something I need to upgrade every so often, so it was mainly a cost issue for me. Number one reason I chose LibreOffice is because it's free as in beer, so you don't pay anything to download or use the software. That alone is a big advantage over Microsoft Office where either you are paying indefinitely or you're paying very large upfront costs every couple of years. Other than that, I'm a big fan of the open source community and LibreOffice is genuinely trying to help the community at large get great software all over the world that people can use. LibreOffice is active in a number of different charities that I support, and so I wanted to be able to support that myself if I could. Onboarding for LibreOffice is relatively straightforward regardless of whatever your platform is. On my Mac, I went to the website libreoffice.org and got the latest version from there. On my Linux boxes, I was able to get them from the stock package repositories or because I'm in Ubuntu, I could just grab the very latest copy from the Snap Store. So regardless of which platform you want to use, it's pretty straightforward. You get it, make your documents, and you're pretty much on your way from there. If you're considering LibreOffice, you've probably heard a lot of people say, oh, but maybe it doesn't have perfect Microsoft Office document compatibility. I have two things to say to that. The first is compatibility has improved significantly over the years. I haven't used LibreOffice off and on for a number of years now, probably at least 10 years, and I've really seen it grow as a project since then, even back from the OpenOffice days leading up to the LibreOffice split to the present, so there has been a lot of progress made with that. The other thing is if we want to get away from using a proprietary standard, then we need to do our part to make that happen. So, using LibreOffice, being able to save documents and DOC format or ODT format rather than DOT, DOCX is a step in the right direction for cross platform compatibility kind of across the board.

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Travis T
AV Leader
4.0

Travis: Hi, I'm Travis, a Director of Development in the non-profit industry, and I would give Lucidpress four out of five stars. Before Lucidpress, we had Microsoft Illustrator and unfortunately it wasn't as intuitive to me. When I jumped on board in my position, I was looking for something that had just a wide range of features, and it didn't seem like at least our version of Illustrator was up to snuff with the vision that I had for the assignments that were before me, such as newsletter generation and other things. And so when I looked around, searched online, said a prayer, because I had no idea where to go, I actually came across Lucidpress and was pleasantly surprised. At the end of the day, after doing my search through the different publishing softwares, I decided on Lucidpress because it seemed like it not only gave us the most bang for our buck, but it also seemed to just have all the features that we need. They're constantly doing updates, and it's been four years since I made that decision and I'm still very comfortable with it. It's just been very easy to get the job done and also to train staff. They seem to pick it up pretty easily as well, and that helps. And so it's just been a nice process. Our printing company, they work well with us and they seem to understand it. And it's a really big plus to have it as cloud-based because when you're sending those big files, it's nice to just be able to go to the printing company, download it on their computers, and just allow it to do its job, and for them to take over from there, rather than having to dumb down one of the files in order for it to process or send via email. So there's a lot of great features to sum it all up, and the addition or the option for it to be on cloud is just a huge plus that makes our workflow a lot easier. It was very easy to onboard into Lucid. I was given the task of creating a newsletter that had already been in existence before I had started at my current position, and I had a vision for what I wanted to do, and it was great to be able to get into Lucid and easily identify what needs to be done. And I don't have a graphic design background by any means, but it just talks and shows and presents itself well. And so I think anyone who has a general understanding of what they want to do and of manipulating even Microsoft Paint or something like that, I think you would be able to pick up Lucidpress pretty easily. If you're considering Lucidpress, I would recommend that you gauge the price against the features. I think that's a huge draw to have a cloud-based publishing software. You might gauge it against the others, against the competitors, and assess even the templates and the things that are already available to you. I was able to create the newsletter that is still going on by manipulating a template that was involved in Lucid for our purposes. I did a fair amount of changing it, but it's still actually, four years later, serving as the base. And it's given the feel and the branding to our non-profit's newsletter. So I think just based on the price, the cloud integration or the cloud availability, and then all the features that come in, I think if you gauge it against the other ones, the competitors that are out there, it's going to be a very competitive publisher. And I think you would be good to make your decision with it and you'd feel that you confidently made a good choice.

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LibreOffice

10/37
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Approval Process Control
  • Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Audio File Management
  • Calendar Management
  • Campaign Management
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Content Library
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Templates
  • Drag & Drop
  • Electronic Forms
  • Engagement Tracking
  • Metadata Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • SEO Management
  • Single Sign On
  • Tagging
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Version Control
  • Video Support
  • Website Management
  • Workflow Management
  • WYSIWYG Editor
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • API
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Content Publishing Options
  • Document Classification
  • Document Management
  • Full Text Search
  • Image Editing
  • Multi-Language
  • Text Editing
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Marq

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LibreOffice

LibreOffice
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Marq
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
LibreOffice
  • By The Document Foundation
  • Located in Spain
  • Founded in 2016
Marq
  • By LPS Holdco
  • Located in United States
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