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Month, week, day and agenda, with repeats and time zones that survive the round trip, which is where most calendar files quietly lose a meeting. Your diary lives on your own computer, and since 1.29.8 it can also keep in step with a CalDAV server you add, such as iCloud or your own. An invitation that arrives in Mail is answered from Mail, and the reply is one the organizer’s calendar understands. An event over several days is one bar across them in the month. The Hijri calendar can sit beside the Gregorian, each day’s Hijri date in the month, week and day views, and the week starts on the day your language starts it.

Formats: Reads and writes .ics (iCalendar) · recurrence rules · time zones · invitations and replies · More about Calendar

A word processor on a .docx engine we wrote ourselves. Pages are laid out on screen as you type, and the ruler moves indents, tab stops, margins and table columns by hand. Pictures and text boxes float where the file puts them and the words wrap round them, on screen and on paper. The ribbon is Word’s own, Home through References, Mailings and Review. Tables have Word’s Table Design and Table Layout tabs, with styles, merged cells, Draw Table, the Eraser and formulas such as =SUM(ABOVE). Home → Multilevel List has Word’s list library, Article and Section numbering included, and Define New Multilevel List makes your own, with levels linked to the heading styles so every Heading 1 reads Chapter I., II. as Word does it. Mail merge fills letters, envelopes and labels from a workbook, a list or Contacts. A table of contents, an index, a table of figures, a table of authorities, citations and a bibliography are all fields Word itself updates. Track Changes records what Word records, formatting included, and Review → Compare marks what changed between two versions of a document. A watermark can be words or a picture, and Print starts from the document’s own paper and margins. WordArt bends along an arch, a circle or any of Office’s thirty-six warps, and prints as the page shows it. Save as Template keeps a document as a .dotx in the folder Word keeps templates in, and Home offers it under Start something. Forms are made and filled as Word makes them, with content controls, a Developer tab and Restrict Editing’s Filling in forms; Redact takes marked words out of every part of a copy, from its headers to its properties; and Inspect Document clears what should not travel. Building blocks, SmartArt, 3D models, equations, a thesaurus, ink from the Draw tab and right-to-left paragraphs for Arabic, Urdu or Hebrew are there too, and a PDF keeps Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Cyrillic text. Arabic paragraphs can be justified with kashida, Word’s Justify Low, Medium and High, printed and saved as PDF with the joins between letters lengthened. As the zoom drops the pages stand side by side, two, three or six across, View, Multiple Pages shows two whole pages, and Side to Side turns them like a book. Ctrl and the mouse wheel zoom the page here and in Worksheets, Presentations and Mail, as Office does. Rutba Word was renamed Documents in 1.29, and an updated copy keeps its pins and defaults.

Formats: Reads and writes .docx, .odt, .rtf and web pages · saves as .txt or Markdown · opens .doc, Word 6/95, Word 2.0 and Write files in full · exports PDF · More about Documents

A .pptx engine that reads the package, follows the master and its layouts, and draws each slide as PowerPoint would, so a deck from PowerPoint still looks like itself after you edit it. Every shape moves, resizes and turns by hand, with Edit Points for its outline, pattern fills, 3-D and the effects PowerPoint writes. Tables are drawn in their table style, and SmartArt, WordArt, equations and charts go on a slide from the Insert tab. There are eleven themes, the Slide Master with notes and handout masters, transitions with sound and animations with their pane. Video and audio play in the show. You can record narration and timings slide by slide, with the camera too where a slide has a cameo, and export the deck to video. Print keeps its choice of slides, notes or handouts in the deck, where PowerPoint keeps it. Motion paths, effects by paragraph, 3D models, a live camera Cameo, custom shows, Zoom links and ink from the Draw tab are there too. Review, Compare merges a reviewed copy of the deck and lists every change, slide by slide and shape by shape, to accept or reject, as PowerPoint does. Redact and Inspect Presentation clear what should not travel, ink is kept as PowerPoint keeps it, the slide show has a pen and a highlighter, and comments take mentions, edits and Resolve. Design Ideas suggests layouts for the slide, worked out on your computer rather than by a service, and a paragraph can read right to left. A box is typed in with its words in their own font, size and colour, and Bold, colour, size and the rest go to the words you select, the others left as they were. Presentation was renamed Presentations in 1.29.

Formats: Reads and writes .pptx and .odp · opens .ppt from PowerPoint 97 to 2003 in full · exports video · More about Presentations

The double-click app: every common image format, EXIF read and orientation honoured, clips and sound in the same folder, and PDFs in the same window. A folder fills the window (folders inside it, chips that count it by kind, any order, three tile sizes) and draws only what is in view, so a folder of five thousand costs what a folder of fifty costs. A tile is a thumbnail the platform made once and Rutba Office keeps, never the file itself; a clip’s tile is a frame of it, not a live player. One click opens a picture on a dark stage with a filmstrip, and the picture stays until the next has decoded, so moving on never shows an empty frame. A picture can be rated one to five stars with the keys 0 to 5 and tagged, kept on this computer and never written into the file, and the filter finds both. Ctrl+R turns a photo in its file and saves it, a JPEG by its orientation tag with its pixels untouched. Batch edit resizes, converts, renames and turns upright the pictures of a whole folder, and never replaces a file without asking. Copy Text from Picture reads the words in a photo or scan, puts them on the clipboard and lets you select just the lines you want.

Formats: Every common image format, TIFF pages, Photoshop, EMF and WMF · HEIC and camera RAW through Windows · EXIF · clips and sound · PDF · More about Pictures

A video or a sound file opens in a player first: speed, repeat, captions from a subtitle file beside it, picture in picture, full screen and the files around it in its folder, until Edit Video puts it on the timeline. Clips, stills and sound end to end on a timeline of lanes with frames and waveforms. Split, trim, ripple, close gaps and move clips between lanes with snapping to clips, markers and the beats of a song. Fit, fill, turn, flip and crop a clip; crossfade, wipe, slide, push and zoom between clips; and add titles, lower thirds, end cards and callouts. Volume, mute and fades per clip, and export with sound to MP4 or WebM, the whole project or only In to Out, in landscape, square or vertical. Projects are saved as .rvid files that find their media again when it has moved, and unsaved work comes back after a crash. Record Screen records a screen, a window or a region with the camera beside it as a second file, the microphone and the computer’s own sound, with a countdown, pause and keys that stop it from any program; the takes land on the timeline as layers you can still move and reshape. Record Voice records the microphone alone onto a sound track at the playhead. Introduction videos are made scene by scene from a template, with a teleprompter, retakes, a brand kit and a lower third, Zoom on Clicks from the pointer, captions read and written as .srt and .vtt, and export for YouTube, LinkedIn, Reels, Shorts, TikTok or email. No ffmpeg to install, no native binaries, nothing that needs a toolchain. The MP4 is encoded by the computer’s own hardware and written by the suite itself: a minute of 1080p exports in under half a minute. A library beside the preview keeps the media of the project with titles, word art, shapes, icons and sound effects made on your computer, and four starters (a slideshow, a tutorial, a vertical social video and a montage) play at once on stand-in pictures until Replace Media puts your own in their place. A clip runs from a quarter to four times its speed with its sound keeping its pitch, a sound shifts by semitones, Freeze Frame holds a picture and Reverse plays a clip backward; volume goes to +12 dB under a limiter, Lower the rest dips the music under a voice, and two sounds crossfade. The preview can play on a second screen of its own.

Formats: Reads what the browser engine decodes · saves .rvid projects · exports .mp4 and .webm · More about Video

The Recorder’s studio, streamed to YouTube, Facebook, Twitch or any RTMP server at once, encoded on the graphics chip, with a copy recorded on this computer if you like. With two cameras or more, one on the front and one on the side, or one on each speaker, each camera has a shot of its own (Camera 1, Camera 2 and so on, on the keys 1 to 9), and Everyone puts them side by side. With Preview on, the shot you pick waits beside the one on air, where you can still move, clip and shape what is in it; Cut puts it on air at once and Fade dissolves it in, and Space takes it with the transition you chose. Follow the speaker pairs each shot with a microphone: a voice heard for a second and a half brings its shot up, a shot stays at least three seconds, and when two speak at once or nobody has for a while the wide shot goes up. Rotate moves to a new shot every 3 to 30 seconds, through the shots you mark In the rotation. A shot you pick by hand always takes over. Stream keys are kept encrypted on this computer and sent only to the server they belong to, nothing connects until you press Go Live, and when a destination falls behind the bitrate comes down until it catches up. Anyone who had the Recorder has Live Broadcast too, until they turn it off in Choose apps.

Formats: Streams H.264 and AAC over RTMPS or RTMP · records a copy as .webm · More about Live Broadcast

Tables of the records you keep, in one file on your computer. A new table starts with an ID that numbers each record, and its design adds the rest: short and long text, numbers, whole numbers, currency, dates and yes/no, each required, unique or with a default. Records open a page at a time, so a large table opens at once. A relationship lets the records of one table point at a record in another, and the file keeps them from pointing at nothing. Queries are designed as in Access, with criteria such as > 10 or Like "A*", sorting and totals, or written in SQL, and saved under a name. New Form makes a form for a table, a list of names for each field that points elsewhere and the related records below. New Report lays the records on a page, grouped with totals, to print or save as a PDF. Start from one of twenty-five sample businesses (a corner store, a cafe, a barber shop, a car dealer, a builder, lettings, a clinic, a charity, HR and payroll and more), each with a year of invented records or empty for your own, from a ready-made database (Contacts, Inventory, Membership, Customers and sales, Lending library) or an empty one. Print templates lay out a record as a business sends it, an invoice, a receipt on a till roll, a payslip or an agreement, with your letterhead, to print or save as a PDF. A query can calculate a column as Access does, with Round, IIf, DateDiff, Format and the rest, and use a table as the recipient list of a mail merge in Documents. Import brings in a CSV or TSV file, or the old files Worksheets reads (dBASE and FoxPro, Access, Lotus 1-2-3, SYLK and DIF). A database is one SQLite file, and any SQLite database opens too. Data Files is one of the apps you add from Choose apps.

Formats: Reads and writes .rbase · opens .sqlite and .db · imports .csv, .tsv, .dbf, .mdb, .accdb, .wk1, .slk and .dif · More about Data Files