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Bean is a free, compact, easy-to-use text editor that occupies the middle ground between bare-bones apps like TextEdit and more full-featured (and more expensive) word processors.
Bean launches quickly and uses minimal resources, while giving you access to rich features such as live word count, tabbed documents, templates for boilerplate and automatic dates, page layout settings and in-line graphics, dictionary integration, word completion, plenty of import and export options, a search panel that can handle regular expressions, and an Inspector panel for making tweaks to text, format, and spacing.
Bean can't handle some specialized tasks, like footnotes and predefined styles, but this open-source editor gives you a lot of functionality at no cost--in a well-designed, pleasant-to-use interface, including optional split-screen editing and a two-up layout view.
Anyone looking to get a little more out of a free word processor with strong basic features and some extras should give Bean a try.
Publisher's Description
From Bean:
Bean is lean, fast, and uncluttered. If you get depressed at the thought of firing up MS Word or OpenOffice, try Bean. If you use TextEdit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean. If you desire a simple, beautiful writing environment, try Bean.
What's new in this version: Fixed a problem where the Full Screen menu item did not work under 10.7 Lion.
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All versions:
4.2 starsout of 82 votes
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Current version:
4.2 starsout of 4 votes
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"I wish this had been on my Mac for the last three years"
Version: Bean 2.4.5
Pros
This should be standard kit for any Mac. So fast to launch. As fast as 'text edit' in Mac, but murch moe friendly and pretty, too.
It's my favorite, now. I look for reasons to open a word document, just to see how quick it flashes onto the screen. Come on in. The water's fine.Cons
None found, but I'm not looking too hard.
Summary
Get it.
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"Nice but the full version is costly!"
Version: Bean 2.4.5
Pros
Cost of the update
Cons
None that I have found
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"Smooth an simple but have not had extensive use yet."
Version: Bean 2.4.5
Pros
Ease of use is the best so far
Cons
none yet, will keep you posted if there's a problem
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"like it and it is FREE!"
Version: Bean 2.4.5
Pros
Bean is good enough for me..and chesp:-)
Cons
none so far
Summary
I have NO CLUE why Apple gives me a new iMac and NO WORD PROCESSING app...textedit you can only do so much, don't like pdf..we used to have one..maybe I don't see it..
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