The OS X text-editor market is burgeoning, especially with the advent of the Mac App Store and the capability to store documents on iCloud (and otherwise in the cloud). These writing apps range from ...

If you're making documents with cross-references, Word not only lets you have text like "see chapter 3 for details" but if you add in another chapter, it will automatically change that 3 for a 4. It's ...

Pages on the Mac has a reputation for being too basic because Apple gives it away for free, but it hides exceptionally powerful word processing features. This is an exaggeration, but broadly Microsoft ...

A word processor is indispensable for anyone who creates documents, be it for work, school, or writing angry letters to your representatives in Congress. Now that Microsoft has finally released Office ...

For anyone serious about privacy and streamlining their digital toolkit, HedgeDoc is the clear winner. So what are you ...

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 ...

In “Vote for Your Favorite Mac Word Processor” (10 July 2017), we asked you to rate the Mac word processors that you’ve used. Over 800 TidBITS readers responded to our survey of 21 apps, submitting ...

Notepad, a text editor, performs relatively fewer functions than WordPad and MS Word. On the other hand, WordPad and Word are very close to each other but still distinct in many ways. This post will ...