Apple Pages
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
4warn against
Jan 13, 2026first mention
Oct 26, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“all of which are excellent”
“Pages is my current go-to.”
switched from Microsoft Wordon “Apple Business”
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“I'll take Apple's Office suite (Pages, etc.) over MS Office any day”
“those are a delight to work with”
“style sheets are so well integrated in the UI”
Caveats and dissent
“I'd still rather write on something like this than Word, Pages or Google Docs.”
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“The icon is horrible and generic”
“The problem with Pages is that it is extremely mediocre at everything”
Often compared with
2 moved from Microsoft Word to Apple Pages
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Apple Business 2 mentions
- Apple Creator Studio 2 mentions
- Why Notes will never let us edit Markdown 1 mention
- A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs 1 mention
- Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products 1 mention
- Notion or Obsidian or Apple Notes? 1 mention
Also written as Apple Pages. Data: apple-pages.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 17
“Otherwise, I paste into Pages and kick up the paragraph spacing.”
“set up a simple grid (say, Pages on a mac or Libre Office or Scribus)”
“all of which are excellent”
“I copy such notes into Pages and increase the line/paragraph spacing.”
A few months ago, on a price hike announcement for Office365 posted here to YC HN, I made a comment that MDM is expensive, had high MOQs (Mosyle, Jamf) and fundamentally still doesn’t work as well as Windows and Intune. I also lamented that Microsoft keeps hiking prices and that it’s silly we’re normalising $20+ per user per month when we used to pay once for these things. I lamented how Apple hardware is now the sam
“Pages is my current go-to.”
“I'll take Apple's Office suite (Pages, etc.) over MS Office any day”
“I dearly miss Pages ’09.”
“running the Numbers/Pages/Keynote apps”
“those are a delight to work with”
“I'd still rather write on something like this than Word, Pages or Google Docs.”
“I use Pages for letter writing”
This anecdote from history feels timely given the recent shift of Apple’s iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) from being bundled with Macs to being a freemium subscription. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/28/apple-updates-keynote-numbers-pages/
“style sheets are so well integrated in the UI”
“The icon is horrible and generic”
“The problem with Pages is that it is extremely mediocre at everything”
“I use Pages once a month for an invoice”