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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There just aren't too many new OS X word processing applications appearing these days, with Microsoft Word and Apple's Pages ruling the roost. So it was with some interest that I took a look at Wrise ...

Blue Nomad has announced the release of a fully Mac OS-friendly version of WordSmith, its word processing app for Palm OS-based PDAs. The new version incorporates a conduit that enables Mac users to ...

The Mac comes with apps for writing notes, letters, and even books, but take the time to look further and there are superb writing apps for every aspect of writing. You do already have Pages on your ...

On your Mac, there's TextEdit (free) which is so simple and basic that you'd think you've stepped back to computers of the 1980s. However, it's so simple and basic, it so very much does not add ...

Astrohaus is unveiling a new device that they've been teasing for a few weeks now, the Freewrite Alpha word processor. The most important thing to know is that the Alpha will be priced at $349, or ...

The default format for documents that you create for your business using the Mac's native word processor application TextEdit is RTF, or Rich Text Format. An RTF document includes formatting for ...

If you’ve ever used Google Apps, you’ve seen what kind of power a collaborative, cross-platform word processor can have. Today’s Apple iWork.com Web applications fall far short (though they look much ...