said dnesday that its Docs, Sheets, Slides apps, now a part of Drive, would be broken out into separate mobile apps.

Users who have Drive on their Android or iOS phone can already use Drive to create Docs, Sheets, or Slides—’s equivalent of Microsoft rd, Excel, or werint. But that capability isn’t exactly obvious, which is probably the justification for placing those capabilities into their own unique mobile apps.

“ile the Drive app is a convenient place to store your stuff, we want to make it easier for you to quickly find, edit create documents, spreadsheets, presentations on the go,” Brian vee, a product manager for , wrote in a blog post.  

Beginning today, users can download the new Docs Sheets apps from the ay Store. Docs Sheets are also available for iOS, as well. promised Slides would be released in the near future. The individual apps still don’t take advantage of the add-ons functionality that tacked on to Drive in h. 

If you’re one of the few that does use Drive to both create manage your Apps, you’ll be prompted over the next few days to download the individual apps. But Drive can still be used to manage those documents, said. It’s all a bit confusing. 

confirmed that a new version of the Drive app, which will hit the app stores in the coming days, will seamlessly redirect users to the individual apps when they want to edit or create a document. So, Drive will still be around to manage your storage, but all app creation editing will need to be done within these new apps.

Docs, Sheets, Slides originally began life as Apps, three add-ons that provided some early, free competition to Microsoft Office. But in 2012, moved them under the Drive umbrella. Now they’ve been released to the wild once again. If you love them, set them free.