Zoho Writer

RATING:

4.5

(39)

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.

Zoho Writer Pricing

Free for individuals. Group sharing, password-protected sharing and more storage options available with paid plans. Standard: $5/user/month. Premium: $8/user/month.

Starting price: 

$0.01 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

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Zoho Writer Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Zoho Writer

1 - 5 of 35 Reviews

User Profile

Rick

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2018

Considerably more powerful than Google Docs and just as free

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.

Tejas

Entertainment, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2024

Wonderful Free Product

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.

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

Saskia

Verified reviewer

Government Administration, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed April 2019

Edit texts in real time

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.

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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Rashmi

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2022

Completely customisable and easy to use

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.

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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Wulliams

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2018

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

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.

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