Program information 
- Softonic Rating:
- License:
- Free (GPL)
- Added:
- June 27, 2007
- Updated:
- June 17, 2008
- Publisher:
- Website
- File size:
- 2.2 MB
- Downloads:
- 681
“An OS X Word Processor”
There's already a plethora of word processors on Mac, and most of them fit the job perfectly. Bean is an open source text editor with a very nice interface and its personal set of features. We liked the inspector tool, which gives you quick access to elements like alignment, spacing, or indenting. Bean also carries a dictionary and makes it really simple to check the spelling and definition of a word.
Bean's font manager, which lets you add new ones or arrange your favorite ones, is very well thought out. Bean also has a statistics window, which you call up directly from the menu bar, and that will give you word count, number of paragraphs and more. Bean is a very pleasant word processor to use and you always feel like tools are immediately accessible. It's a good free and simple alternative to Microsoft Word or Open Office.
Languages:
English
OS requirements for Bean:
- OS: Mac OS X
- Inspector tool
- Dictionary
- Font manager
- Statistics
- Limited text editing features
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From the publisher of Bean
Bean is a small, simple word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), with many niceties added to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is powered by the same text engine as Apple's Text Edit, but it adds live word count and the ability to adjust printed margins.
Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that includes:
- a live word count
- a Get Info panel for in-depth statistics
- a zoom-slider to easily change the view scale
- an Inspector panel with lots of sliders
- date-stamped backups
- autosaving
- a page layout mode
- an alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue)
- an option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces)
- selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
- a floating windows option (like Stickies has)
- easy to use menus
- remembers cursor position (excluding .txt, .html, .webarchive formats)
- all of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)
Posts about Bean in our blog
- Three free alternatives to SmartFTP by James Thornton
- How to recover your XP product key by Nicholas Mead
- Bean: a sleek free word processor for Mac by Cyril Roger
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