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Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that is designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is lean, fast and uncluttered. It starts up quickly, has a live word count, and is easy on the eyes. Also, Bean 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.
Bean has some limitations: it doesn't do footnotes or use stylesheets and is only partially compatible with Word's file formats. Also, it allows in-line graphics, but not floating graphics.
Features:
• live word count
• make template documents with boilerplate text
• free-form headers and footers
• page layout view (optional 2-up)
• alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue)
• split-window editing
• full screen editing
• date-stamped backups
• selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
• find panel allows regular expressions (pattern matching)
• all of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)
Download:
Download Bean Word Processor 3.2.10 for MacOS
Download Bean for High Sierra
Version 3.2.10 (released 13 October 2017) for macOS High Sierra 10.13
• Not compatible with earlier macOS versions
• Maintenance release for macOS High Sierra.
Download Bean for Sierra
Version 3.2.9 (released 14 November 2016) for macOS Sierra 10.12
• Not compatible with earlier macOS versions
• New in this version: even more bug fixes for Sierra
• Spanish localization (Thank you, Francisco Ramón Román)
Download Bean
Version 3.2.5 (released 8 March 2013) OS X 10.5 to OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), Intel only
Localized for: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Slovak