SoftMaker Software GmbH

SoftMaker Software GmbH is a German software company based in Nuremberg, at Kronacher Straße 7. Its imprint names Martin Kotulla as managing director and gives its registration at the Nuremberg commercial court under HRB 8788. The company makes office software that reads and writes Microsoft Office files as its own formats.

What it makes

Its main product is SoftMaker Office, made up of TextMaker for word processing, PlanMaker for spreadsheets and Presentations for slides. TextMaker saves to DOCX, PlanMaker to XLSX and Presentations to PPTX by default. The company sells a subscription edition, SoftMaker Office NX Universal, for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, and a one-off licence edition, SoftMaker Office Professional 2026, for Windows, Mac and Linux. It also publishes FreeOffice, a free version of the three programs for personal and business use, and FlexiPDF, a PDF editor for Windows.

Who it serves

SoftMaker's pages are addressed to home users, small businesses and organisations that want an office suite that works with Word, Excel and PowerPoint files without a Microsoft subscription. It sells volume licences for 5 to 100 computers, and its mobile apps are free to download. The company stresses that it works to German data protection standards.

Key facts

The subscription includes writing, translation and image tools with yearly allowances of 1 million translation characters, 5 million characters of generated text and 100 generated images, and grammar and style checking in more than 30 languages.

Legal name: SoftMaker Software GmbH Address: Kronacher Straße 7, 90427 Nuremberg, Germany Managing director: Martin Kotulla Register: Nuremberg commercial court, HRB 8788 Products: SoftMaker Office, FreeOffice, FlexiPDF SoftMaker Office NX Universal (read 27 October 2026): 49.90 US dollars a year or 4.99 US dollars a month; 199 US dollars for 5 computers, 3,980 US dollars for 100