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# HermesOffice

**The world's first full-featured open-source AI Office suite.**
**The open-source AI office suite.** Word processor, spreadsheet, presentation
editor, PDF editor and Markdown editor in a single app — real `.docx`, `.xlsx`
and `.pptx` files, edited byte-preservingly, with AI editing built into every
app instead of bolted on as a chat box.

[![License: Apache-2.0](https://img.shields.io/github/license/criptogus/HermesOffice)](LICENSE)
[![CI](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
[![Nightly build](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/actions/workflows/main-build.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/actions/workflows/main-build.yml)
[![Latest release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/criptogus/HermesOffice)](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/releases/latest)
[![License: Apache-2.0](https://img.shields.io/github/license/criptogus/HermesOffice)](LICENSE)
[![Downloads](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/criptogus/HermesOffice/total)](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/releases)

[Download](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/releases/latest) · [Privacy](PRIVACY.md) · [Demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pLdMX95v4)
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<source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="docs/assets/readme/hero-dark.webp">
<img src="docs/assets/readme/hero.webp" alt="HermesOffice — the open-source AI office suite" width="100%">
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**[⬇ Download for macOS](#download)** ·
[Watch the demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pLdMX95v4) ·
[Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md) ·
[Security](SECURITY.md) ·
[Privacy](PRIVACY.md)

HermesOffice is a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft Office for macOS,
Windows, and Linux, built around AI editing as a first-class workflow rather
than a bolted-on chat box. It opens and saves the real Microsoft Office
formats — Word (`.docx`), Excel (`.xlsx`), PowerPoint (`.pptx`) — and edits
PDF and Markdown too: a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation editor,
PDF editor, and Markdown editor as six Electron apps sharing one engine
layer.
Windows, and Linux. Every app embeds the same AI panel — block-level edits with
snapshots and diffs, document-aware agents, web/image search, and image
generation — and you can run it on your own API key (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini,
DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, Qwen and more) or a keyless Genspark sign-in.

## Download

### Stable

| Platform | Requirements | Download |
| ------------------------- | -------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **macOS** — Apple Silicon | macOS 11+ | **[`.dmg`](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/releases/latest/download/HermesOffice-arm64.dmg)** · [`.zip`](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/releases/latest/download/HermesOffice-arm64-mac.zip) |
| **Windows** (x64) | Windows 10+ | [build from source](#development) |
| **Linux** (x86_64) | glibc 2.34+, FUSE 2 for AppImage | [build from source](#development) |

The `releases/latest/download/…` links above never change — they always point
at the newest stable build. Older versions live on the
[Releases](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/releases) page.

### Nightly — built on every push to `main`

**[⬇ HermesOffice-nightly-arm64-mac.zip](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/releases/download/ho-nightly/HermesOffice-nightly-arm64-mac.zip)**

[![Meet HermesOffice — the world's first full-featured open-source AI Office (video)](https://img.youtube.com/vi/B2pLdMX95v4/maxresdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pLdMX95v4)
The nightly channel ships the latest `main` as a rolling prerelease, built
automatically on every push. Installed apps detect it on their own: the app
checks for updates shortly after launch, every 4 hours and when the window
regains focus, then offers **Update Now** — which downloads the build,
verifies it and swaps it into place without a reinstall. Stable `ho-v*`
releases always take priority over the nightly.

[Watch the demo video on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pLdMX95v4)
macOS builds are **ad-hoc signed, not notarized** (no Apple Developer ID yet),
so the first launch of a manually downloaded build needs one confirmation:
right-click the app → **Open**, or allow it under **System Settings → Privacy
& Security**. Updates applied from inside the app skip this step.

## Features

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- **macOS, Windows, Linux.**
- **Free & open-source (Apache-2.0).**

## Download

**macOS · Apple Silicon — [download the latest `.dmg`](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/releases/latest/download/HermesOffice-arm64.dmg)**
One click, always the newest build. That link never changes — it is also the one to share or put on a page.

| Platform | Requirements | Download |
| ------------------------------------ | --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **macOS** — Apple Silicon (arm64) | macOS 11+ | [`.dmg`](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/releases/latest/download/HermesOffice-arm64.dmg) · [`.zip`](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/releases/latest/download/HermesOffice-arm64-mac.zip) |
| **macOS** — Intel (x64) | macOS 11+ | [build from source](#development) — no published artifact yet |
| **Windows** (x64) | Windows 10+ | [build from source](#development) — no published artifact yet |
| **Linux** — Debian / Ubuntu | x86_64, glibc 2.34+ | [build from source](#development) — no published artifact yet |
| **Linux** — Fedora / RHEL / openSUSE | x86_64, glibc 2.34+ | [build from source](#development) — no published artifact yet |
| **Linux** — other distributions | x86_64, glibc 2.34+, FUSE 2 | [build from source](#development) — no published artifact yet |

Builds come from `main`. The macOS bundle is **ad-hoc signed, not notarized** (there is no
Apple Developer ID behind it yet), so the first launch needs one confirmation: right-click
the app → **Open**, or allow it under **System Settings → Privacy & Security**.

Older versions are on the [Releases](https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/releases) page.

### Installing on Linux

The deb installs with apt — it pulls in the dependencies and adds HermesOffice
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## Screenshots

| Docs | PDF |
| ---------------------------------- | -------------------------------- |
| ![Docs](docs/screenshots/docs.png) | ![PDF](docs/screenshots/pdf.png) |
| Docs — AI editing | Sheets — AI assistant | Slides — AI generation |
| ------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| ![Docs AI](docs/assets/readme/docs-ai.webp) | ![Sheets AI](docs/assets/readme/sheets-ai.webp) | ![Slides AI](docs/assets/readme/slides-ai.webp) |

| PDF — real text editing | HTML — AI restyle | Markdown — AI panel |
| --------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| ![PDF edit](docs/assets/readme/pdf-edit.webp) | ![HTML AI](docs/assets/readme/html-ai.webp) | ![Markdown AI](docs/assets/readme/markdown-ai.webp) |

## Apps

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## Development

TypeScript · Electron · React · Rust xlsx sidecar · ~17,000 unit tests ·
Playwright E2E against the real built app.

```bash
npm install
npm run fixtures # generate test .docx fixtures
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The HermesOffice and Genspark names and logos are trademarks of Mainfunc, Inc.
The Apache-2.0 license does not grant permission to use them (see section 6);
forks should use their own branding.

---

<p align="center">
<strong>HermesOffice</strong> is designed and built by
<a href="https://zeroagency.ai">ZeroAgency.ai</a> — an independent AI product
studio.<br>
If the suite saves you a Microsoft 365 subscription, a star goes a long way:
<a href="https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice">⭐ criptogus/HermesOffice</a>
· <a href="https://github.com/criptogus/HermesOffice/issues">Report a bug</a>
· <a href="CONTRIBUTING.md">Contribute</a>
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