Google's free, online-first Docs, Sheets, and Slides are easy to use and offer powerful revision features, though competing office suite apps still have more robust capabilities.

Apple's sophisticated Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps are free and work seamlessly across the company's devices, though we wish their default file formats weren't proprietary.

Parth, a seasoned tech writer, wields the keyboard (or pen) with finesse to unravel the intricacies of both Windows and Mac operating systems. He has covered evergreen content on mobile devices and ...