Comments on: Productivity on your Mac: 5 Alternative Word Processors

By: Franssales

Franssales — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:18:03 +0000

If WriteRoom is mentioned, the very similar but free OmmWriter should be mentioned as well.

My vote to Bean.

By: Marc Nothrop

Marc Nothrop — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:33:52 +0000

As one of the longest running Word Processor devs on the Mac, it’s a huge oversight to omit Nisus Writer. Nisus has a long history on Classic Mac OS, and had been reinvented for OS X.

Coming in standard and Pro versions, many users swear by this app, and there’s healthy rivalry/debate amongst Nisus & Mellel users.

IMHO as small companies Nisus (and Redlex/Mellel) deserve all the support they can get, esp. from the Mac media… as do the NeoOffice guys deserve donations for their years of effort improving OpenOffice, when Sun ignored the Mac.

AbiWriter also deserves a mention, as a longterm opensource project, and IBM’s Lotus Symphony, based on OpenOffice, has been available on Mac OS X since last year.

Thanks for the round up, but your net should be cast a bit wider.

By: idl3mind

idl3mind — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:28:23 +0000

another alternative is AbiWord http://www.abisource.com/

By: Brandon Pittman

Brandon Pittman — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:28:45 +0000

Scrivener is not just a word processor, but it’s got a nice full screen mode and text management system.

By: macmissionary

macmissionary — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:34:35 +0000

Do any of the free alternatives allow you to track changes and view redline and markup from Word users?

By: TwiRp

TwiRp — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:00:42 +0000

I traditionally use Nisus Writer for my documents.

WriteRoom isn’t really a “word processor” alternative. It’s great for writing, but not for word processing. There are plug-ins that allow you to use it alongside your word processor, but I wouldn’t use WriteRoom on it’s own for my documents.