I was particularly impressed with how easy it was to create PowerPoint presentations in Polaris Office. Polaris Office is much more straightforward and does a good job of staying out of your way so you can focus on work. This is a welcome change from OfficeSuite Pro (3 stars), which uses a small toolbar ribbon for some options and nested menus for others. When I went to change the color of cells in a spreadsheet, I saw the same interface that I used for changing paragraph options for text documents.

Many of these menus are the same, or similar, when working with different document types, making for a consistent experience across the app.

The app also makes full use of touch controls, allowing for swiping between pages and pinch-zoom. Some menus, like point size, have dial-like sliders to quickly make changes. When changing the style of text, a tabbed screen makes it easy to find the option you need. Polaris Office is a pleasure to use in part because it has big menus that are easy to read and navigate on a small mobile device. The app currently supports DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, and good ol' TXT documents. Unlike many Android apps, Polaris Office also comes with fairly comprehensive documentation to guide new users. Submenus for the file browser, favorite documents, and so on are also clearly displayed and easy to understand.

Previews of recent documents are displayed in an array that moves toward you as you scroll through them. Polaris Office's quality experience begins as soon as you launch the app. While it lacks some key editing and sharing features, a smart user interface helps balance out those shortcomings. Having already made great inroads on iOS, where it earned our Editors' Choice award, Polaris Office 4.0 brings a solid and beautifully designed experience to Android. Most office apps for Android make working on a phone (barely) tolerable, but Polaris Office 4.0 for Android turns it into a downright pleasant experience.

Does not support Google Drive, Box, or SugarSync.

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