Microsoft Office Mobile (previously Pocket Office) was originally launched in 1998 with
Windows CE v1.0, it is a suite of applications that comes bundled with the Windows Phone and has separately downloadable versions for
iOS and
Android, and was previously available for
Windows Mobile and
Symbian. Microsoft Office Mobile has 4 core applications which are
Microsoft Word Mobile,
Microsoft Excel Mobile,
Microsoft PowerPoint Mobile, and
Microsoft OneNote Mobile, besides the core applications Office Mobile offers separately downloadable versions of
Teams,
SharePoint, the Microsoft Lens(Formerly Office Lens), the Office Remote, and
Microsoft Office 365 apps. In 2014, Microsoft acquired
Acompli, a company that developed an email and calendar application for Android and iOS which was rebranded as Outlook Mobile. In October 2015 Microsoft announced that another acquisition,
Sunrise Calendar would be integrated into the Outlook Mobile application. After Sunrise Calendar's features are integrated Microsoft announced that it would discontinue the application but that it is still available for download in
Google Play, and the
App Store before its official discontinuation.
Office Sway currently has an
iOS and
Windows 10 app, with a
Windows 10 Mobile in development.
Microsoft Lens Microsoft Lens (formerly Microsoft Office Lens) is a
OneNote companion app designed to capture, scan and enhance images of whiteboards and printed documents, including traditional business cards, and store them in various formats including PDF, JPG, Word, OneNote, PowerPoint as well as contact address-book databases (e.g.for business cards). The application was limited in its ability to capture multi page documents. From later updates it can capture multipage documents. It has smart intelligent actions eg: Scanning QR codes for detecting links, Extract text from documents, Scan table, Read aloud text etc. Microsoft announced the Lens is set to be retired on December 15, 2025, Lens was removed from the
App Store and
Google Play on February 9, 2026, Lens was officially shutting down on March 9, 2026, and their migration to
OneDrive.
Office Remote Office Remote was originally launched by
Microsoft Research in November 2013 to control Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint documents using a device running
Android or a
Windows Phone. It required
Microsoft Office 2013 (except for Office 2013 RT) or an Office 365 subscription to work. As of September 2019, the required mobile apps were no longer available. Office Remote had the following capabilities: • For Microsoft PowerPoint, Office Remote enabled large buttons to make presentations more easily accessible, forward and backward slides, view thumbnails and jump to a side as well as access speakers while presenting a PowerPoint file and have access to the direction of the presentation with an on-screen laser pointer. • For Microsoft Excel Office, Remote could jump between spreadsheets, graphs and any named object via gestures, change spreadsheets with swiping, navigate through columns and rows and use PivotTables and filters to change the levels of zoom. • For Microsoft Word, Office Remote offered zoom control and scrolling.
Office 365 Video In April 2015, Microsoft launched Office 365 Video, a private
video sharing service for the subscribers of Office 365 Academic or Enterprise license. Office 365 Video can be used for training, promotional and informative videos for employees of companies whose intranets do not support video sharing capabilities. The service comes with a mobile app for
iPhone.
Outlook Groups Outlook Groups was a mobile collaboration application that can be used with Office 365 domains, Microsoft accounts, work accounts or school accounts, despite its name it's not related to Outlook 365 Groups and these two similarly named services do not share many features and Outlook Groups does not integrate with either
Yammer and Office 365 Groups. Though the application is free to download the service can exclusively be used by Office 365 subscribers and further integrates with Microsoft Office's other services like OneNote (with which users can collaborate in "notebook") and the core services like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. In October 2015 Microsoft added Admin functions which added the ability to create groups, manage members of a group, mention full names, highlight and deep link to a user's profile card. Outlook Groups was retired by Microsoft on May 1, 2018 The functionality was replaced by adding the "Groups node" to the folder list within the Outlook mobile app. == Photosynth ==