WordPerfect Document Viewer App Reviews

Solid app. Wish there was an option to save/convert to .doc / .docx

This app is by far the best of the WordPerfect viewers available - and I can say that with confidence because I put together one of the other ones (a freeware app, not in the App Store). This is the ONLY WP viewer that correctly renders paragraph numbers in WPDOS files if those numbers have any unusual formatting. The other viewers number all numbered paragraphs as "1"; this one numbers the paragraphs correctly. Excellent work. One small point: the license is weirdly formatted, and still describes the software as version 2.4, although its now 2.5.

OK. Lets face it. For better or for worse, Wordperfect is dead. WordPerfect Viewer is the only viewer in the App Store that I have found to handle documents containing images correctly. That includes the highly recommended WPD Wizard. If you dont want to have to run a PC or virtual machine to open and view your WordPerfect archives, I have found nothing better for the job than WordPerfect Viewer. Exporting to a format that can easily be read by Pages or MS Word is a piece of cake, as well.

Had an old wpd document. Open Office couldnt read it. This program did. It doesnt seem to allow edits, but you can select all and copy the document into Word. Thats what I did.

I had old word perfect files that included Hebrew. This could not convert them and simply gave me messed up symbols where the Hebrew was. Probably a fine app for english documents, just not for anything with symbols or unusual text forms.

I needed to convert a Word Perfect doc and this did the job. I may never need it again, but it was quick, safe, and priced right.

After trying many other reader apps included OpenOffice and getting errors or garbled text, I downloaded this one and it worked perfectly, rendering the text in the original formatting and appropriate line breaks. Thanks so much!

This opened the files in .wpd that I needed to view. The formatting was slightly off.

I don’t know how this got 35 positive reviews. This program does not work as advertised. I want my money back. You can open the .wpd document on your Mac, but that’s as far as the program goes. None of the original formatting is preserved. Don’t buy it.

After decades of crashes and blue screen wipeouts in Windows my family shifted over to Macs. Solutions cause problems. I could not open any of my thousands of WordPerfect files. WordPerfect Document Viewer to the rescue. So far I’ve opened about a dozen WP files by changing the file extension from whatever to .WPD and using this app. I have another app that purports to do the same thing. If and when this one doesn’t do it I’ll try the other one.

Does just what it is supposed to. Great little app.

This program opens the files in a small window that you have to manually drag larger. By comparison, WPDReader for $1.00 opens it up with a larger window, shows a document map on the left and has buttons on the top to do the actions you want to do (rather than make you do those things via menu bar). Adequate program, but ironic that cheaper competitor feels more complete.

I use this app just about every day, and it’s been a lifesaver. My wife’s company deals with a large number of file types, and guess who gets to deal with them? This guy. Anyway, the people that make WPD and several other file readers sure got it down. (tho my wife thinks Im the clever one and let’s just say I don’t disabuse her of this notion lol) Anyway, great app!!

The app is great. I particularly want to emphasize customer experience - tech support is very fast to respond and to help with any issues.

This is a solid app. What more needs to be said?

I like this app as it makes it very easy to get WordPerfect documents into Word. Wonder why Microsoft stopped doing the file translation. Not long ago you could open a Word Perfect document in Word and then save it as a Word document. My concern is that I see a notice that the WordPerfect Document Viewer has been updated. Each of the last five or six updates have all been to the same revision, Version 9.2.8. Each have come in on a different date, with two coming in today. Are these really updates, or is the same update being loaded and installed again and again. If so, seems like a waste of computer time and storage space. Also is distracting to see the message pop up on the screen every day.

I don’t understand why I get updates everyday, sometimes more than once. Always 2.9.8! Seems like a waste of space on my computer. Are these really updates? I think not. The version never changes. I have to clean my computer to get them out.

In a word, FANTASTIC! My first word processor was none other than WordPerfect. This was back when Microsoft was just a DOS directory GUI (2.1), and as a result, I have thousands of documents and many long ago forgotten. Recently I needed to resurrect a few documents and felt lost. Now with this application I am able to view and save off to a readable format. Thank you LawBox LLC, you are the best!

Yea! I thought these files were lost forever. Installed app, dropped a WP file written in 1993 (with no extension!) on the app and, voila, the file opened with formatting intact ready to work with in Word. Fabulous and worth the price.

I found a document I wrote 15 years ago to which I really needed access. Nothing would read it, yet this app did and it preserved the text and formatting. It was well worth the $6 I paid for it as it saved me hours of work converting the document by hand. Well done!