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# Zoho Writer Review

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-   Overview
    
-   User Interface
    
-   Popular Alternatives
    
-   Pricing and Plans
    
-   Features
    
-   Integrations
    
-   User Reviews
    
-   Popular Comparisons
    

## Overview

Zoho Writer

4.4

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Pricing

Starting at $0.01 per month

### About Zoho Writer

Zoho Writer is a cloud-based word processor that offers live collaboration and MS Word support. With Zoho Writer, you can create, edit, and publish your documents all from one tool. It is designed to be a powerful word processor that is available across all your devices, including desktop, laptop, or mobile devices. You can collaborate with teammates in real-time, making it easy to work together on projects.

One of the features of Zoho Writer is its enhanced review and sharing capabilities. With feedback and change-tracking tools, you can speed up your review process and collaborate on content. You can even post your content directly to your WordPress or Blogger pages.

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## Zoho Writer User Interface

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Zoho Writer

4.4

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Ratings Breakdown

-   4.45Ease of use
-   4.58Value for money
-   4.42Customer support
-   4.35Functionality

Pricing

Starting at $0.01 per month

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-   4.69Ease of use
-   4.78Value for money
-   4.35Customer support
-   4.51Functionality

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## Zoho Writer Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $0.01 per month

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## Zoho Writer Features

-   Popular features found in Document Management
    
    Access Controls/Permissions
    
    Archiving & Retention
    
    Collaboration Tools
    
    Compliance Tracking
    
    Document Classification
    
    Document Editing
    
    Document Generation
    
    Electronic Signature
    
    File Conversion
    
    File Sharing
    
    Third-Party Integrations
    
    Version Control
    
-   More features of Zoho Writer
    
    Activity Tracking
    
    Alerts/Notifications
    
    API
    
    Approval Process Control
    
    Audit Trail
    
    Commenting/Notes
    
    Configurable Workflow
    
    Content Library
    
    Content Management
    
    Contract Drafting
    
    Contract/License Management
    
    Customizable Branding
    
    Customizable Forms
    
    Customizable Templates
    
    Data Import/Export
    
    Data Synchronization
    
    Digital Signature
    
    Document Automation
    
    Document Capture
    
    Document Management
    
    Document Review
    
    Document Storage
    
    Document Templates
    
    File Recovery
    
    Forms Management
    
    Full Text Search
    
    Generative AI
    
    Interaction Tracking
    
    Multi-Language
    
    Multiple Format Support
    
    Multiple Output Formats
    
    Natural Language Processing
    
    Offline Access
    
    Reporting & Statistics
    
    Search/Filter
    
    Secure Data Storage
    
    SSL Security
    
    Task Management
    
    Template Management
    
    Templates
    
    Text Editing
    
    Workflow Automation
    
    Workflow Management
    

## Zoho Writer Integrations

Zoho Sign

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OneDrive

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Zoho Forms

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Zapier

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WordPress

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Zoho CRM

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## Zoho Writer User Reviews

## Zoho Writer customer ratings

- Overall rating: 4.4/5
- Total reviews: 40

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 22 reviews (55%)
- 4 stars: 14 reviews (35%)
- 3 stars: 3 reviews (8%)
- 2 stars: 1 reviews (3%)
- 1 star: 0 reviews (0%)

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.5/5
- Value for money: 4.6/5
- Customer support: 4.4/5
- Functionality: 4.4/5

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### Considerably more powerful than Google Docs and just as free

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Rick P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Any frustrated user of Google Docs should run not walk to check out Zoho Writer, a free online collaborative writing tool that equals Docs in every way and surpasses it in many others. Yes, you can collaborate with others on a document, just like Docs, which means you can comment, contribute together, and write together in real time. It's also easier to track and see changes in Zoho Writer than it is in Docs. You can publish to a Wordpress blog. Seriously I would need to write a blog post to over Zoho Writer's features than Docs can't match, but here's a few that I like and use: Templating (any doc you create can become a template for new docs); built-in mail merge; electronic signatures, importing documents from other cloud drives; saving to other cloud drives; per document offline mode; exporting as epub, open document (or Word, of course); a well-designed interface with color icons; personal dictionary; Quick Text (autotype of sorts); built-in thesaurus; endnotes and footnotes; table of contents; extensive formatting and printing tools.... OK, I'll stop. The feature list is extensive. If there's something Zoho Writer lacks, I haven't noticed it yet.

#### Cons

It runs a little slow on underpowered machines, like the Chromebook I'm writing on now. Also, it wasn't immediately apparent how to turn off seeing and tracking changes.

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### Wonderful Free Product

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Tejas E.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: January 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I use it because of its simplicity and the fact that sharing and downloading your document in multiple formats is much easier than with Google Docs or Microsoft Word on Android.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Zoho writer is an excellent, completely free document editor with an elegant design and awesome export options.

#### Cons

I have only found three small issues with Zoho writer: 1) Onboarding within the Android app is slow and often crashes the app 2) Copy Paste from other apps is slightly strange and loses all formatting, including paragraph breaks. 3) There is no markdown support

#### Reasons for switching to Zoho Writer

Better export options, in terms of file formats such as TXT

#### Vendor response

Hi Tejas, Thank you for appreciating Zoho Writer. Regarding the onboarding issue you've mentioned we're actively working on resolving them and it should be available soon. Also we would like to let you know that Zoho Writer supports markdown in its web version: https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/kb/writer/user-guide/editing-formatting/working-with-text/articles/working-with-text#Introduction_to_Markdown_in_Zoho_Writer. If you can share any sample text where the formatting is lost after copy paste it will help us drill down the issue. Please contact us at support@zohowriter.com with your suggestions and feedback. Thanks!

Replied January 2024

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### Edit texts in real time

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Saskia C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: April 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I have used this application to make some drafts of my writings before making the final article. My boss corrects these drafts using this platform, that speeds up the correction process and efficiently, so it's much easier to have a quick response to publish.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

It's an easy-to-use text editor that works in real time, is flexible and works for any professional who needs to edit documents, you can even make edits from your cell phone. You can share your writings with other people, it is quite safe and reliable.

#### Cons

Feels like a basic text editor, with basic editing functions, could improve on many technical and functional aspects.

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### Zoho Writer: Simple Collaboration Tool to Achieve Goals

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Ankush B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Zoho Writer is part of Zoho Suite. Zoho Writer is user friendly and easy to use tool which can resolve almost all the challenges faced during document processing. Affordable and recommended.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Zoho Writer is an awesome document processing tool which help users to collaborate and edit simultaneously. Following are the key features of Zoho Writer: 1. Helps in working remotely 2. Enables users to add comments 3. Emojis are available 4. Marking chapters and separators in the document 5. Template for various purposes

#### Cons

There is nothing to dislike about Zoho Writer. New features are coming in to compete with the MS office products. A very well tool to replace Google Docs.

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### Completely customisable and easy to use

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Rashmi T.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: June 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

It is completely amazing, I love working on Zoho writer and my whole team can simultaneously have a look at my work and edit it. Also, the tracking feature is great.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The way we can create our own template for all our future documents and how it is so easy to directly publish WordPress blogs makes it much better when compared to its competitors.

#### Cons

Well, it's free software with so many features and there is hardly anything I dislike about it. Just that it sometimes gets stuck!

#### Reasons for switching to Zoho Writer

Much more efficient

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### A software for simultaneous modification of documents in the cloud that can be improved

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Wulliams C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: July 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Zoho Writer is an acceptable software to work with documents in the cloud. It is important to take advantage of this software how intuitive it can be, it is quite useful to autocomplete certain functions saving time and effort, in addition to its functions with the sources and presentation of the document, which are quite good. I think that this software can be improved in order to consider a more close competition with other softwares with the same characteristics.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

When I did my tests looking for the best editor of text documents in the cloud I got with the company Zoho and its software compendium. Among those was Zoho Writer, which offers you the option to modify documents in the cloud in real time and collaboratively. Zoho Writer has an excellent intuitive platform, which offers autocompletion options and use of fonts according to the aesthetics of the document. Allows you to export documents to other software without losing the format

#### Cons

In spite of being an acceptable software it has some defects that diminish it in front of the competition: - You can not modify master documents. -You can not organize documents in folders or you can customize them. -It has no spell checker. Although these aspects seem minor, other softwares do, leaving Zoho Writer on a different level

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### Nice, easy to use but not fully compatible with MS Word

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Rafael F.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I like it a lot, but some times I have issues with compatibility

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Its affordable, easy to use and we can use it in any device

#### Cons

Not fully compatible with MS word, we have issues with templates

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### So much better than word

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Johnny A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: October 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Very positive.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I love Zoho writer as it has a lot more features, better layout, and works as expected.

#### Cons

I don't like that they don't have a desktop app.

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### Zoho Writer is a tool for handling your texts and compositions.

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Souleymane D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: August 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Zoho offers real-time collaborative text editing, allowing you to work on documents with collaborators in real time.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

What I really like is that, in addition to its writing capabilities, Zoho Writer allows you to integrate other software such as Google Drive or OneDrive, making it easy to access and import your stored files.

#### Cons

What I don't like is the interface, which I personally don't appreciate much, despite it being a good text editing tool.

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### Zoho Writer Is The Best

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Kimba Maria W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Writing and Editing
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

When I didn't have access to Microsoft Word, Zoho Writer came in very handy. I am very impressed and will continue to use .

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I first encountered Zoho Writer 10 years ago, because I was looking for an alternative to Microsoft Word. It was the precursor to Google Docs and 10 years later I am still impressed with its simple interface, easy functionality and great customer service. The fact that Zoho Writer is cloud bases was my "green light" to continue using it. I knew that I'd always have a backup of my documents in case my hard drive gave out. I also like that you can attach other well known apps to Zoho Writer as well.

#### Cons

There's nothing that I don't like about this program. I

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