Bean : An OS X Word Processor for Mac

Thu, 05/20/2010 - 1:34pm (15 years 25 weeks ago)

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Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge! MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people. But sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is Bean's niche.

Page Layout & Inspector
Here you see Bean in page layout mode, using two text columns, with the Inspector panel open. Changes in the Inspector panel apply instantly to text. Also visible are the zoom slider and the live word count in the status bar at the bottom of the window.

Mac OS X Bean word processor

Rich text editing, Plain text/HTML editing, Export to HTML

The left window shows Bean editing a rich text document with images (a version of Bean’s webpage). This document was then exported to HTML using Bean (the HTML file is open in Bean in the middle window). In the front-most window, this same HTML file is shown rendered as a webpage in Safari (after copying the image files to the HTML file’s directory).

A really great little Word Processor and you can't beat the price - free !