Developer Apple

Latest Release version iWork ‘08 / August 7, 2007

Operating System Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows

Website Apple Inc

Description iWork is a suite of applications created by Apple Inc., containing Pages, a word processing and desktop publishing application, Keynote, a presentation package and Numbers, a spreadsheet application [1]. Although iWork is billed by Apple as "a successor to AppleWorks" [2], it does not replicate the functionality of AppleWorks’s database and drawing tools. Likewise, it does not compete directly with the Mac version of Microsoft Office, but instead offers tools with a different focus (presentation, rather than analysis) at a lower price. It is designed to integrate with existing applications from Apple’s iLife Suite. Although iLife comes free on every Mac, iWork is sold separately. A free 30-day trial of iWork was provided with every new Mac (up through February of 2008—as of March 2008, the iWork trial is available only as a download), and with copies of iLife.