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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/pages-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/pages-profile/alternatives/) # Pages User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 180 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.5/5 - Customer support: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 4.7/5 - Functionality: 4.3/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 118 reviews (66%) - 4 stars: 47 reviews (26%) - 3 stars: 13 reviews (7%) - 2 stars: 2 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - I also appreciated the smooth integration with iCloud, making it simple to access and edit documents across devices. - You can also collaborate in real-time with your colleagues. - Excellent experience using this product to create, edit, and save documents in multiple formats for personal and business use. ### Most mentioned cons - Sometimes it takes a while to sync documents in iCloud. - Hyper-time-consuming owing to unintuitiveness and impossible-to-locate solutions in help. - If you migrates from other software such as Word, can be little frustrating ## Pages customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 180 (page 1). ### A complete writing tool with no subscription needed - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Machinery - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is very intuitive and easy to use, a lot smarter than Word in my opinion and it’s completely free if you own an Apple device. You can also collaborate in real-time with your colleagues. #### Cons It is not fully compatible with doc and docx files. Sometimes it takes a while to sync documents in iCloud. --- ### Apple makes Word better - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Construction - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · monthly - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Pages is perfect and free for Apple users who want to do what Microsoft Word does for free. Plus, it comes with several collaboration features that rely on devices' sharing capabilities. #### Cons One annoying thing it could be is that Pages is only available on iPhone, Mac and iPad, just to say that it requires an Apple device. --- ### A New Way to Document - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Executive Office - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: less than 1 year · monthly - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall, it’s a nice app to use. It is a learning curve for folks that grew up using word or Docs. I believe one should teach a class on how to use the software more effectively. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros There is such a level of growth and creativity you can have with this software. You are able to do all the typical document creation stuff and you can change the layout, the color of the pages and more. I am constantly learning how to create with this software. #### Cons It is such a learning curve for me. The functions aren’t the same as word or docs. You have to know what you are doing in order to create/edit or change. --- ### A great word processing document - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Hannah C. - Industry: Mental Health Care - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I find this is a really helpful software when looking for a word processing software. It is similar to microsoft word #### Cons It is a little bit hard to go from being a PC user to a Mac user at first but once you learn, you like it. --- ### File di testo in modo semplice - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: March 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Personalmente lo utilizzo sia per lavoro sia per studi e mi sono trovato bene fin da subito con pages #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros software molto comodo e ben costruito per file di testo, facile da utilizzare, molto inuitivo e completo. #### Cons al momento non ho riscontrato alcun svantaggio, lo utilizzo nella quotidianità e mi trovo molto bene. --- ### Software di videoscrittura - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Consumer Goods - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: February 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Avendo l'ecosistema apple un MacBook ed un ipad vi è molta vestibilità ed integrazione tra i due dispositivi citati. iCloud da una marcia in più per la modifica ed il passaggio da un dispositivo ad un altro #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Software di scrittura molto semplice ed intuitivo. Punta molto sull'estetica e sulla facilità d'utilizzo Gratuito sui prodotti apple Supporto per Apple pencil #### Cons Compatibilità universale, a volte ho avuto difficoltà ad aprire il file con programmi di Windows Ecosistema chiuso Funzioni avanzate mancanti rispetto ai competitor --- ### User-Friendly Word Processor - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Vicente C. - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · monthly - Reviewed: February 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My overall experience with Pages has been positive. It's easy to use, looks clean, and makes creating documents straightforward. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros What I like about Pages is how easy it makes creating documents look professional. It's a straightforward way to create polished documents without feeling complicated. #### Cons What I like least about Pages is that It can be limited compared to other word processor when it comes to advanced formatting or compatibility with non-Apple file types. --- ### Clean, Intuitive, and Easy-to-Use Perfect for Apple Users - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · monthly - Reviewed: November 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall, using Pages was a smooth and pleasant experience. It’s perfect for personal or professional documents if you’re in the Apple ecosystem. While it may not replace Word for power users, it strikes a nice balance between simplicity and functionality. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I really liked how intuitive and clean Pages feels for creating documents. The templates are well-designed, and it’s easy to format text, add images, and customize layouts without feeling cluttered. I also appreciated the smooth integration with iCloud, making it simple to access and edit documents across devices. #### Cons I found that Pages isn’t as feature rich as some other word processors like Microsoft Word, especially when it comes to advanced formatting and collaboration tools. Sometimes exporting to non-Apple formats (like Word or PDF) can slightly alter the layout. --- ### Pages is for Professionals and Newbies - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: November 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Excellent. It has everything I need and is very organized. I've tried to move to Google Docs to create products for my teaching, but Google Docs can't touch Pages. My products look professional on Pages. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I have been using pages for years to create products. It's intuitive and I can't imaging living without it. #### Cons Sometimes when I add text, it unexpectedly shifts my images. I’m sure I might be doing something wrong, but it’s still frustrating. I also worry that future updates could remove some of the features I rely on. --- ### A capable and flexible solution for document creation - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Machinery - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered All in all, our team is very happy with the performance of Pages and have used it regularly as part of our workflow. While it lacks some of the flexibility competitors like Google Docs and MS Word have, it is extremely convenient, easy to use, and readily available on all of our Apple products. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like the fact that Pages is already built into all of my Apple products and is available for free. Aside from that, I really like how many customizable templates are available in Pages. Our team regularly uses these templates as the starting point for many of our document projects. #### Cons If I had to nitpick and pick the things I least like about Pages it would be its overall lack of features and basic sharing/collaboration tools. Since pages is free, its suite of tools and features is a bit limited compared to some of its competitors like MS Word and Google Docs. I do feel that Google Docs offers a better real-time collaboration experience overall. --- ### Pages for the win! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: TUREEN PUNIT G. - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I love using Pages to create different sorts of files with ease. It is easy and fun to use especially while creating birthday invitations, posters, flyers, and other infographics. I adore its feature-rich and intuitive interface. The user community and support team are great and quickly help resolve issues. Besides that, Pages lets me collaborate with other users in real-time, provides powerful integration with other tools, and is easily accessible across all my Apple devices. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Pages is a powerful and easy-to-use word processor, especially for Apple users. It comes with tons of features and beautifully designed templates across various categories to cater to multiple user requirements. Pages let a user insert photos, charts, audio video, etc into the document. It comes with an intuitive interface and is quite easy to use. Pages also provide powerful sharing and collaboration features to the users. #### Cons The thing I least like about Pages is the fact the documents created on Pages cannot be opened elsewhere unless converted into a suitable format like PDF. Hence it is a great option for sharing files among Apple users only. --- ### Pages Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Joy W. - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: June 2022 - 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: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love to use Pages for manipulating pictures and for making graphs and charts. I find that it is much easier than Microsoft Word for these two jobs. #### Cons Since Microsoft Word is more widely used, I use it for word processing documents and those that I plan to share with others. However, I often create my charts in Pages, and then transfer them to Word as picture files because it is so much easier to create charts in Pages. --- ### For Apple users, Pages is a good word processor, though it lacks many power features - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Aaron P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · monthly - Reviewed: July 2021 - 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 Pages since it was first introduced over 15 years ago and have almost always preferred it to competing products - especially Microsoft Word and Google Docs. Pages has a nice clean interface, great support for inserting and manipulating media items, and is generally just nicer to use than other products. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The main selling point of Pages is that it is free for Apple users and is available on all Apple platforms (Mac, iOS and iPadOS). Being a free piece of software, Pages is quite capable, with multiple formatting options and good media integration. In addition, for iCloud users, Pages seamlessly syncs with iCloud Drive and allows for multiple people to collaborate on a single document. In addition, Pages has a clean and easy to use interface, and its feature set is comparable across all platforms. #### Cons There are two major downsides to Pages - it is Apple only and lacks many of the more powerful features of competing word processors (such as Microsoft Word). While there is a web based version that can be accessed from any platform, it isn't a great experience (especially when compared to Google Docs). For most users that need a free cross-platform alternative to Word, OpenOffice and LibreOffice offers a good alternative; though at this point many people choose to go with Google Docs out of sheer convenience. In addition, for collaboration purposes, Pages is really only useful if both people use Macs. --- ### Once again Apple is the best, buy it once and keep it! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Food & Beverages - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: December 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have used Pages for well over 10 years and have no reason to use anything else. Apple products are the best period. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros You buy it one time and can always upgrade unlike everyone else who wants you to always subscribe. It is very easy to use and the best of the best. #### Cons I wish there where more templates, even if they where an extra purchase or something. --- ### Great software that rivals the costly & unnecessary Microsoft - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Legal Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Great! Got used to it very quickly and I could never go back to Microsoft. After using pages for years, Microsoft seems like a stone-age software (and an expensive one at that!) #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros How easy it is to use, the great templates, the overall product design (with the vibrant colours and informational icons) and the fact that it is free! #### Cons Might need some more functionality, although I have never really needed any other softwares that Apple doesn't offer for free to its clients! --- ### Pages is a viable alternative to Word or Google Docs. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alec S. - Industry: Law Practice - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I use Pages for routine correspondence, creating legal briefs, writing reports and formalising research from my note taking application. Additionally, I use Pages to open Word documents sent to me by other lawyers and I have never experienced any issue in terms of formatting. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I work as a Lawyer and was initially very hesitant to use Pages, I had no reason to be cautious! Pages has a different menu layout and doesn't seem to copy over anything from Microsoft Word. Having said that, it's very user intuitive and I found myself accessing complex features easily and quickly. I feel confident in my writing reports all day, creating and saving templates, inserting media if required and everything else a solid word processor needs. Finally, because it's Apple, the application runs quickly and seamlessly. This isn't to mention the benefits from using Apple products and services as far as the ecosystem is concerned. #### Cons I originally thought the lack of features would prohibit me from properly using Pages. The reality is all the necessary functionality is there with few exceptions. --- ### Useful tool, with quite a modern design compared to other options - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Juliette S. - Industry: Arts and Crafts - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · monthly - Reviewed: November 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I liked using Pages for writing and editing text - however, I used Word if I needed to share the file later with another editor. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I like using Pages to write and edit text. Their design is more modern and intuitive than other options. #### Cons People are usually used to other options such as Word suite and non Apple users cannot easily open Pages files if not sent on PDF. --- ### Alternative to Microsoft Word - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Bakari C. - Industry: Writing and Editing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · monthly - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Since Apple's Pages is free, I’ve used it for several years for desktop publishing projects, including brochures, fliers, PDF downloads, guides, etc. Pages is fairly easy to use for simple projects, but I wouldn't suggest using it for writing a book. I suggest Scrivener instead. Pages is also useful for sharing projects with collaborators, as well as reading your documents on the iPad. Pages also includes templates for various types of projects like brochures, but honestly, it's easier and better to use Canva, the online graphic design tool. #### Cons A little challenging to learn advanced features like page and document formatting. --- ### Simple Word Processor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ryan S. - Industry: Religious Institutions - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: May 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The user interface and share features are extremely simple to use and easy to find. #### Cons There is a learning curve to using Pages if you are more familiar with other word processors. --- ### Pages Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It is simple to use, has some great templates which make setting documents up like such as a resume or invoice very straight forward. It best aspect would be the simplicity of it's user interface and ease of use. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The ability to use pages across multiple devices and it updates live without needing to be saved. #### Cons It's not very compatible with Microsoft devices. Although you can export to Microsoft word and PDF sometimes formatting doesn't match with how you have it set up in pages. --- ### Pages - you dont have a choice with MAC. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered With Mac you do not have a choice, you really have to use pages. However, it is generally a good software without major glitches, and doesn't slow your computer down. It is relatively easy to use and self explanatory. It is of course NOT compatible with Microsoft / android so you have to always remember to export files as word or as pdf. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It works well isn't generally glitchy and has a lot of adaptability. You can export to other formats for other computers etc and you can actually open up a word document on a mac and then edit with pages. #### Cons My biggest issue with pages is its grumpiness. It randomly decides to stop allowing a document to be saved and says the document is not editable - even though all permissions are set. It is so strange and extremely frustrating! --- ### Great Word Processing for Mac and iOS devices - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Christian K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: February 2022 - 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 Pages to create project and user documentation for software we have built or are building. I also have been using it outside of work for personal documents I need to create, collaborate on, or share. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Pages comes free on any Mac or iOS device and integrates seamlessly with iCloud, making it easy to get started and continued collaboration. No subscription like other big-name word processors. #### Cons There is a bit of a learning curve if you’re used to other big-name word processors, but any user using a Mac or iOS device should be able to pick it up pretty quickly if they’re used to the OS design language. --- ### Clean - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My experience is wonderful, I used this app every day #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It’s a very easy to use app. Like others word process apps this one is very clean and elegant, it has a lot of options and it’s powerful and light #### Cons I don’t like that is limit to an apple system, in this system is very light and optimized, but in others (windows…) is not. Right now is the only thing that I don’t like --- ### Better than Word - for some things - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: December 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I love using it especially for a bit more graphically complex documents, such as an 8 page annual report on my company to investors. It does not reach the pro levels of a layout app such as Adobe's InDesign, but for my purposes those are mostly overkill and as I have a Mac and Pages comes free with the OS, it's not a difficult choice. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros If you want to make a fancy looking PDF report or newsletter Pages does a way better job than MS Word. Especially when it comes to graphics, text and photos in multiple layers. Things just go where you put them and then stay there and its fantastically easy to use. #### Cons I have not really tried the collaborative features, mainly because most colleges and clients use MS Word, where these features are definitely robust (when writing a document that contains mainly text and needs input from others, I thus use MS Word more). Part of this issue is that Pages is only meaningfully available within Apple's walled garden (although you can use the online version at iCloud.com for free) so, collaboration will not work across many desks. --- ### Review of the app Pages - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Law Practice - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered There has not been a single day in the past 6 years where the documents created by the Pages app are not used. Pages is a really powerful software. The majority of my colleagues and schoolmates use this app on a daily basis just like I did. It is simple, clean and definitely most effective. Everyone needs to keep up with this age and remember to use it for your jobs! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Pages is a great software to start creating any type of document. It is very versatile with a wide variety of templates to choose from. It is a crucial app for students as it gives a headstart to start writing. The program is easy to navigate through. Putting images, icons, stickers and other related attachments come without a hassle. Pages give anyone the ability to produce a great standard of documents, with the best templates. You will definitely love Pages. I highly suggest you begin your writing journey with Pages today. #### Cons There are a few drawbacks of the Pages app. I think some functions can be a little bit too sensitive and it may be quite easy to lose the product that you are working on if you are not careful. This app is also not user-friendly as it can only be accessed by Apple product users only. Although neat, I find that the Pages app is lacking in terms of creativity and style as some designs are a bit old style. However, this app is certainly better than most out there. ---