Ely Office
ELY-Open-Source/ElyOfficeReviewed by AI
What it does
Ely Office is a set of desktop programs that open and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, read and edit PDFs with text recognition and signatures, read email over IMAP, POP3 and SMTP, write Markdown and work with Git. Your files stay in your own folders and there is no account or cloud service. There are ready installers for Windows, macOS and Linux, and you can install the whole suite or just one app. The suite installer for Windows is about 508 MB.
How easy it is to install
A · download and open · Windows
Every release ships a Windows setup .exe for each app (and one 508 MB installer for the whole suite), so you download and run it.
Numbers on GitHub
- Stars
- 1,146on Oct 31, 2026
- Downloads
- 17,6274,566 this week
- Growth
- +79stars in 4 days
Stars over time
Facts
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- You need to install
- Nothing extra
- To build from source
- Rust
- Disk space
- 508 MB–1.5 GB · from the installer
- Accounts or keys
- None
- Cost
- Free · MIT licence, no paid tier mentioned.
- License
- MIT (Permissive)
- Last update
- Oct 31, 2026
Risk signals (4)
- AttentionOwner account created recently
Owner account created 7 days ago
automatic check
- Infovery new project
Repository created 2026-10-19 and already at version 0.1.12 with 11 releases; the README lists ElyAgent as a 'Second release'. The owner account is also new (see the checks).
AI review
- Infobundles large third party engines
README table: ElyDoc/ElyTable/ElyShow use LibreOfficeKit, ElyPDF uses MuPDF and Tesseract, ElyTree uses Git. The build scripts compile 'patched LibreOffice 26.2.6.3' and 'patched MuPDF 1.28.5', which is why the installers run from 11 MB to 508 MB. Third-party licences are listed in docs/licenses.md rather than the MIT LICENSE file.
AI review
- Infohandles mail credentials
README: 'ElyMail signs in to Microsoft with OAuth, and to Gmail and iCloud with an app password.' Cargo.toml includes aes-gcm, rusqlite and rustls, so mail accounts and messages are stored locally.
AI review
Evidence is shown in its original language.
What Radar could not check
- How faithfully DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files keep their formatting compared with Microsoft Office
- Whether the apps are stable in daily use, given the 0.1.x version numbers
- How ElyMail stores your email password or token on disk
- Real disk use after installing, since the Windows suite installer alone is about 508 MB
- Whether the Windows installer is signed (the README only says macOS builds are signed and notarized)