The following is a list of major desktop publishing software. For comparisons between the desktop publishing software, such as operating system or cloud support, licensing, and other features, see Comparison of desktop publishing software.
Locally Installed Software
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe FrameMaker
- Apache OpenOffice
- Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher
- Collabora Office Draw and Collabora Office Writer1
- CorelDRAW
- InPage
- LibreOffice Draw and LibreOffice Writer1
- LyX
- Microsoft Publisher
- Pages
- QuarkXPress
- Scribus
- The Print Shop
- Affinity
- VivaDesigner
Online/Cloud-based Software
- Canva
- Adobe Express
- Collabora Online Draw and Collabora Online Writer1
- Marq
- VivaCloud
Retired or Discontinued
- Affinity Publisher
- Aldus PageMaker
- AppleWorks
- Calamus - for Atari TOS-based computers
- Corel Ventura
- Fatpaint
- geoPublish - for the Commodore 64
- iCalamus
- Impression - for Acorn Archimedes
- iStudio Publisher
- PagePlus by Serif Europe
- PageStream
- RagTime
- Ready, Set, Go!
- Timeworks Publisher