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 ...

But I started using my favorite word processor of all time just six weeks ago. I acknowledge that I may be a tad biased: I ...

The Zerowriter Ink offers no such distractions: it’s a simple word processor with a mechanical keyboard, an e-ink display and ...

For modern students, the spiral notebook has given way to the laptop and the pocket calculator has been supplanted by the smart phone. We’re not just talking about high school and college, either.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...