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 ...

Microsoft Word used to be enough—now I split my writing across these 5 apps, and they are amazing at doing what the old apps ...

Write 2 lives somewhere between being a basic text editor and a full-fledged word processor, which makes it a solid tool for basic and semi-advanced users who want to get work done. Affordably priced.

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 ...

At first, I wasn’t positive I could make it work. Then I did. Now I can’t imagine life without it. Hello again, and welcome ...

Who ever said operating systems were only for devices? From the early trinity of floppy disks packaged in a cardboard box to the connectivity of today’s O365, Office has become the go-to productivity ...

I spent the past month collaboratively writing an iPhone book in Google Docs, and frankly, the experience was fantastic. The sharing and organizational features in Google Docs and Spreadsheets are ...

My first word processor on Unix was Aster*x (renamed to Applix later). We also used Framemaker but that is overkill for simple word processing tasks. Aster*x was actually a very functional product. I ...

For the last few decades, Microsoft Word has been the de facto standard for word processors across the working world. That’s finally starting to shift, and it looks like one of Google’s productivity ...