The rooms

One installer. Several rooms. Different paid walls.

Treat WPS as a building, not a single button. Writer, sheets, slides, and PDF share a shell. Cloud and AI have their own meters. This site is an independent handbook and is not affiliated with Kingsoft Office Software Corporation Limited.

Desk with a laptop open to a document
Desk with a laptop open to a document

Map

One installer. Several meters.

Writer is where you live. PDF is where you pay. Cloud is optional. AI is a draft button with a ceiling.

Writer

DOCX daily driver. Styles beat floating text boxes after a PDF convert. Mail merge is picky about header rows.

Spreadsheets

XLSX math that is “close enough” until a nested IFS fails a payroll file. Prove it with a known total.

Presentation

PPTX decks for class and shops. Masters from agencies still surprise you on a projector.

PDF toolkit

Reading is free. Batch convert and OCR are where Premium usually appears. Random convert sites are a leak.

Cloud

About 1 GB free is common. Sync is an account choice, not a requirement. Shared PCs should stay signed out.

WPS AI

A prompt button with a daily ceiling. Not a citation. Not Microsoft Copilot. Not a researcher.

Templates

Resumes and slides that still need your facts. Pack EXEs from blogs are not templates.

Shortcuts

Muscle memory from Word mostly transfers. Esc, Ctrl+S, and Alt menus still matter. Custom macros will not.

Photo

A light editor in the suite. Crop a screenshot. It is not why most people pay, and it is not Photoshop.

How the rooms share a shell

On desktop, Kingsoft usually ships one setup that opens several windows. Closing Writer does not always quit background helpers. That matters when you hunt a frozen splash or a disk that filled itself with cache. Mobile skins collapse the same jobs into tabs; the paid walls are still PDF extras, cloud quota, and ads.

If you only need documents, you can ignore Photo and AI for months. If you only need a scanner on a phone, you can ignore Presentation. Do not ignore the channel map: the wrong binary impersonates every room at once.

What to open first after install

  1. Writer, if you live in letters and homework. Set Save As to DOCX.
  2. Spreadsheets, if payroll or grades are the job. Prove one known total.
  3. Presentation, if you have a deck this week. Export a PDF backup.
  4. PDF, only if reading or filling a form is the reason you installed. Do not expect OCR for free.
  5. Cloud and AI last. Neither is required to type a file on disk.

Paid walls by room

Writer, Spreadsheets, and Presentation write files without a card. Ads sit in the chrome. PDF is where Premium usually appears: OCR, batch convert, some merge jobs. Cloud sells quota. WPS AI sells extra prompts. Photo is a light crop tool, not a reason to pay. Details: free versus Premium.

Keyboard muscle memory from Word mostly transfers. Esc, Ctrl+S, and Alt menus still matter. Custom VBA macros will not. See shortcuts.