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.

Although iWork is billed by Apple as "a successor to AppleWorks",Apple press release Apple Unveils iWork '05 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.

Pages

Pages is a word processing and page layout application with an emphasis on visual appeal. It comes with a set of Apple-designed templates for documents including:

• Newsletters
• Journals
• Invitations
• Stationery
• Résumés
• Education Projects
• Marketing Projects

Pages incorporates a media browser for inserting pictures, music, and video from iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie. Pages allows the user to save or export in formats including:

• Pages documents

• Microsoft Word files (.doc)
• Portable Document Format files (.pdf)
• Web Pages (.html) (removed in iWork '08)
• Rich text files (.rtf)
• Plain text files (.txt)

Keynote

Keynote is a slideshow application with an emphasis on presentation. It is similar in many ways to Microsoft's PowerPoint, but contains several features native to the iWork suite. Keynote makes use of iLife integration by including a media browser for inserting pictures, music, and video from iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie. Keynote also features the ability to include animation in slideshow presentations. Keynote is quite versatile in its ability to recognize and save to many formats, including:

• Keynote presentations (.key)
• Microsoft PowerPoint presentations (.ppt)
• QuickTime movies (.mov), which may be interactive depending on one's choice.
• Adobe Flash animations (.swf)
• PDF Acrobat PDF document (.pdf)
• Import any image format recognized by QuickTime, export several image formats (.jpg, .png or .tiff)