Pages was released with the first iWork bundle in 2005 Numbers was added in 2007 with the release of iWork '08. Steve Jobs announced Keynote saying 'It's for when your presentation really matters'. The oldest application in iWork is Keynote, first released as a standalone application in 2003 for use by Steve Jobs in his presentations. Although Microsoft Office applications cannot open iWork documents, iWork applications can export documents from their native formats (.pages. The equivalent Microsoft Office applications to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, respectively.
Apple's design goals in creating iWork have been to allow Mac users to easily create attractive documents and spreadsheets, making use of macOS's extensive font library, integrated spelling checker, sophisticated graphics APIs and its AppleScript automation framework. It includes Keynote, a presentation program the word processing and desktop publishing application Pages and the spreadsheet application Numbers. for its macOS and iOS operating systems, and also available cross-platform through the iCloud website. IWork is an office suite of applications created by Apple Inc.
