Hi is there a mac equivalent to MS office word

The current release of MS "Word" is Office365.

Apple has a consumer-level equivalent called "Pages" and for many, it comes included for free with MacOS.

There is an open-source "Office" suite called LibreOffice (commonly known as "OpenOffice")

If you plan on using it for personal, home use then "Pages" and "OpenOffice" would work fine for you.

If you plan on using your documents in a business environment, and emailing documents to others, or if you receive documents from others, then Office365 is what you want to use. It is the deFacto standard.

More times than I can count, there are subtle difference/problems with formatting issues between Pages/OpenOffice and Office365. We exclusively use Office365 to eliminate formatting issues.

Apple provides Pages as a free installation from the Mac App Store for macOS Catalina and Big Sur. It is not a Word clone, and aside from having substantial less features than Word, will translate an opened Word document into Pages .pages document format without changing the Word document. If you are accustomed to using Word, or share documents with those that do, then you should use the current Word for macOS in either the subscription Microsoft 365, or the single-purchase Office 2021 for Mac that will be released on Oct. 5.

Pages User Guide for Mac.

Pages for Mac Support Community.

Yes, Microsoft Word for Mac. See: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/mac/microsoft-365-for-mac

Or for not completely equivalent see:

The free and very good Libre Office https://www.libreoffice.org/

or the free Microsoft Office on the web: https://products.office.com/en-us/free-office-online-for-the-web

or Google Docs: https://www.google.com/docs/about/

or Apple’s Pages and Numbers

How "equivalent" do you need the app to be?

Apple offers Pages.app, but while a word processor, it does not match Microsoft Word feature for feature - and will require a learning period if coming from Microsoft Word.

MtD

Office365 (not Office360) is a subscription package. Many times when one purchases it, it is usually for one year. The old "OffcieXX" packages were perpetual licenses, and as they were older programs, Microsoft stopped supporting those suites, an stopped working on certain releases of MacOS.

Office365 does require a renewal fee, or monthly subscription. One can debate the agendas of subscription software, but the subscription model allows the program to always remain current, and allows the user to install Office365 on up to five computers at no extra cost, in addition to using the iPhone and Android apps as well.

Often times, there are ways around having to pay for Office365 such as using a license from your employer, school, etc...

Apple's word processing program is Pages.

Pages = Word

Numbers = Excel

Keynote = Powerpoint

Pages is free and already installed on your Mac. It should open doc files.