Free Office App for Kindle Fire: Tips and Tricks

If you want to have any level of productivity with your Fire, you're going to need an Office app of some kind, but unfortunately there really aren't many great options out there. The preinstalled version of Quickoffice only works as a reader, meaning you can't create any documents unless you pay the $15 for Quickoffice Pro. Up until now, I would've said that's actually a good deal. Having Word, Excel, and Powerpoint capabilities on the go is valuable, and I wouldn't tell anyone who paid for that app that they made a mistake. But we're glad to discover that there's a freeware version out there, and we're thrilled to save you the $15 if we can.

The app we're talking about is Kingsoft Office for Android.

This app has pretty much everything you'd expect to find in Quickoffice Pro. It's compatible with MS Office files and allows you to create, edit, view, and save them. The built-in file manager is another nice feature, which allows you to search for files on your Fire if you're not sure where they are. The interface has somewhat fewer features than Quickoffice, but that shouldn't be a problem unless you're doing something completely out of the ordinary. Let's take a look:

One thing you may notice on Kingsoft Office's product page description is that it says the app is a 2-week free trial, but there's good reason to believe that the app is completely free forever and that description is outdated. According to their website, they made the decision to switch the app to free a short while ago. Although I seriously doubt there would be any situation where the app would ask you to pay, you can also download the .APK file directly from Kingsoft's Website.

Unless we find anything fishy about it, it's very possible that our go-to office app for the Kindle Fire will be Kingsoft Office for Android! At the very least, save yourself the $15 and give this a try first to see if it works for you.