MuchAdo¶

MuchAdo is Abilian's desktop office suite: a word processor, a presentation editor and a spreadsheet that run on your own machine, on your own files, with no account and no server.

It is built from Euro-Office, an AGPL fork of ONLYOFFICE by Ascensio System SIA, wrapped in a small Python host. The editors are the real thing — the same document engine, the same file format support — running locally rather than in somebody's cloud.

• MuchAdo Words — documents (.docx, .odt, .rtf, .txt)
• MuchAdo Slides — presentations
• MuchAdo Tables — spreadsheets

Where the project is¶

Words is the one you can run today, on macOS, and it is early. What works today is an honest list rather than a roadmap: it says what is built, what is half-built and what is not started.

If you want to try it, start with Install. If you want to build it, start with the developer overview.

Why¶

Most of the work of an office suite is the document engine — the part that reads a .docx written by somebody else's software and lays it out the way they meant. That engine already exists as free software, and it already runs offline. What was missing was a desktop host for it that is small enough for one team to own.

MuchAdo is that host. It is a few thousand lines of Python and JavaScript standing where a browser fork used to be, and everything else is upstream.

Licence and source¶

MuchAdo is free software under the AGPL v3, as is the Euro-Office code it is built from. Every release records the exact upstream revisions it was built from and the patches applied to them, so the corresponding source is always a commit plus a patch series that provably applies to it.