Mac OS X only: Free, open source application Bean is a lightweight, Cocoa-based word processor for Macs. When we highlighted NeoOffice, the Mac-like port of OpenOffice.org, a lot of readers wanted to ...

Word processing apps are as old as the personal computer, but what counts as a “word processor” turns out to be almost as contentious as determining the “best” word processor. In this TidBITS reader ...

WordPad is a simple word processor that is native to all versions of the Windows operating system. Although WordPad has all the basic functions you would need to create a text document, it is unable ...

Dedicated word processors are not something we see much of anymore. They were in a weird space: computerized, but not really what you could call a computer, even in those days. More like a fancy ...

Notepad is a very basic text editor with very few additional features beyond typing and saving. WordPad is slightly more sophisticated and is a stripped-down word processing program that offers a ...