Exclusive - Review of ThinkFree Premium!

02 Jul 2007 by ReviewSaurus

Thinkfree Office Premium Logo ThinkFree has recently launched ThinkFree Premium and with this release, they’ve impressed me once again and proved that they can really make the difference in the Office applications market. ThinkFree is one of the best online office application and with ThinkFree premium they’ve made sure that you get the power of Online capabilities and the wonders of Offline computing. Right now, it’s in closed beta and I was lucky enough to test drive ThinkFree Premium and bring the exclusive review of ThinkFree Premium.

Here are some of the positives of ThinkFree premium :

Power to create ThinkFree docs and edit Microsoft Office Documents (i.e. Word, Excel & powerpoint files) online and offline.
Collaboration with other users, allows many users to work on a single document at once.
Seamless integration of Offline and Online services, i.e. it synchronizes your account when you go online and thus allows you to take your documents where ever you go. Because, it needs to be installed on the machine, so you get to edit the files pretty quickly and so the work gets done pretty fast.

Exclusive Screen shots of ThinkFree Premium :

Overall rating & views :

I think that ThinkFree premium is really a nice concept and because it synchronizes well, it usability becomes much more than any normal office application. However, because still it’s under constant development and that it needs lot of work in the features’ department as compared to Microsoft Office. You may miss a couple of features but most of the users will be just do fine with the available features.

What are you thoughts about ThinkFree premium or it’s free online service ?

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16 Responses so far

benedict herold July 2, 2007 5:58 pm

ThinkFree seems to be cool. I liked the PowerEdit feature which emulates niche feature of off-line editing. It is ad supported which I hate :-)
reviewsaurus July 2, 2007 6:20 pm

It is indeed cool. Poweredit feature gives you the complete access to thinkfree’s features. No need to hate any service, if it is ad supported :D they are not obtrusive and you can always hide them. :)
benedict herold July 2, 2007 6:25 pm

Didn’t I mention this, I just hate the ads not the service :-) ThinkFree service seems to be super hot :-)
reviewsaurus July 2, 2007 6:31 pm

I think as a blogger you must not hate the ads :D And you did mention that ThinkFree is super cool :)
benedict herold July 2, 2007 6:34 pm

You know what? Normally Bloggers will love to put ad on their blog alone and they hate to click ads / banners in other site :-)
Mark Bean July 2, 2007 8:01 pm

ThinkFree is the best online office on earth.

ThinkFree on Office 2.0 Blog
http://www.office20.com/?s=thinkfree

And you are definitely not exclusive.
reviewsaurus July 2, 2007 8:27 pm

@ Ben : I know, that’s what bloggers do. But, try not to hate others ads too :)

@ Mark : What makes you think that I’m not exclusive?
Andrew Jordan July 2, 2007 10:11 pm

Thanks for the nice write up on ThinkFree Premium.

For those of you that like the service, and hate the ads, you’ll be happy to learn that ThinkFree Premium will be ad-free.

We are expanding the number of Beta users for Premium, it was “exclusive”, but now is just “limited” (for further clarification of the difference in terms, I’m sorry but our marketing department is on vacation).
reviewsaurus July 2, 2007 10:16 pm

@ Andrew : You are welcome Andrew :)
You are providing such a nice service. Well, the reason I chose to write “exclusive” was that it is not available to everyone and is limited.

So, doesn’t that put me in exclusive category :)
benedict herold July 2, 2007 10:26 pm

Agreed with Mark and Andrew it can’t be exclusive if it available for a certain group itself :)

@Andrew- talking about Premium service, even if I like the ThinkFree service. I do really need to evaluate between ThinkFree and other Free players in the market. for instance take ZOHO office; What does ThinkFree makes unique?
Daniel July 3, 2007 9:28 am

Never heard of this ThinkFree, so went on http://www.thinkfree.om to try to see what it does.

But I instantly got this: “The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, lockfree@thinkfree.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.”

Does anyone have a review on it? Or another link where I can study this product? Thanks.
reviewsaurus July 3, 2007 10:37 am

@ Daniel : Thanks for stopping by and taking time to leave the comment. I checked it and I’m getting the same result. It may be that they are currently facing some problem and that’s why we are getting this message. I’m sure it will be all right in some time.

Don’t forget to try this product.
benedict herold July 3, 2007 12:03 pm

Now someone has to agree with me… rather than choosing a ThinkFree premium I can stay very well with Zoho ;-)
Jonathan July 17, 2007 2:08 am

Benedict,

The main unique values of ThinkFree vs. Google or Zoho are a) Microsoft Office compatibility - we are the only online office that provides roundtrip compatibility, and b) a much richer feature set.

Now don’t get me wrong. I love Zoho and think they have a lot going for them. They are trying to compete with Google in being the platform people turn to when they need email, calendar, web site creation tools, etc. and I have to say I have been much more impressed with what Zoho has to offer there. But, we are not trying to be all things to everyone. We are providing an office suite that has deep development instead of covering the breadth that Google is. We are using partners to develop out our feature set.

So, in the end it really boils down to what you want out of your office applications. If Zoho works better for you, great. If ThinkFree knocks your socks off, great. It’s all about offering alternatives isn’t it?

Daniel, please let me know if you are still getting that error message. Don’t know what happened there.

Thanks,
Jonathan
Benedict Herold July 17, 2007 2:34 am

Jonathan,

That was the wonderful explanations. I will agree with you when you said “Feature Rich”. you’re very correct on that! I have seen and used Google docs and Zoho docs before. But they both seem to provide the down graded version of Office suite that fits in for web! BTW, I believe ZOHO has interoperability with Microsoft Word.

Finally, yes the decision solely depends on the person’s perspective on what he is looking out of it. IMO, ZOHO and Google Docs will fit better for freelance to medium scale company. ThinkFree can be integrated at the corporate wide level!
Marc Orchant August 5, 2007 2:57 pm

The essential difference, above and beyond features and MS Office compatibility, between ThinkFree Premium and what either Zoho or Google offers is the ability to work online/offline and the excellent synchronization ThinkFree Premium offers. No one else has offered up anything like this. The collaboration features are well-designed and make commenting and shared editing easy.

I work on two computers every day - a MacBook and a Tablet PC - and also use a variety of mobile devices including an Asus UMPC (Windows) and a Nokia N800 (Maemo Linux). The fact that I can access all of my documents on any any of these devices and know that I’m always working on the very latest version is a big win. So is the fact that I get a consistent user experience no matter which platform or device I’m using.

Disclaimer: I’m an adviser to ThinkFree and make no claims to be completely objective. The reason I’ve engaged with the company is because I am so impressed with their vision and their execution quality.