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 ...

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.

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 ...

Traditional word processors like Microsoft Word and Google Docs cater to the majority of users who write on their computers.