Bean

    Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that is designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable.

    • Free • Proprietary
    • Mac
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    Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and 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.

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    Bean is provided at no monetary cost.
    Bean 3.x is closed source. However, Bean 2.4.x is open source. The source code can be downloaded from the official website.

    Version 3.2.9 (released 14 November 2016) for macOS Sierra 10.12.
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    • Top positive comment  3 months ago • 0 replies
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    I use Bean for most of my word processing because my needs are simple and Bean isn't cluttered up with tons of stuff I don't need. But it's still capable of all the normal tasks, like importing most formats, editing tables and whatnot. Great app.

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    • Top positive comment  almost 4 years ago • 0 replies
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    Bean is no longer being actively developed, but will be updated as necessary to patch bugs and maintain OS X compatibility

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    malagoli
    Comment • over 9 years ago • 0 replies
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    The developer of Bean released on January 1st a new version (3.0.3) with many improvements, but this software is now close source. The software is still provided at no cost.

    According to the web page of the project, Bean version 2.4.x will continue to be open source software.

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    tabakis
    Comment • over 10 years ago • 0 replies
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    One of the first things to install on a new mac. Light and to the point.

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    Office & Productivity • Development

    Platform details

    Mac: For Mac OS X 10.5+, Intel only

    Tags

    • cocoa
    • rich-text
    • regexp
    • Text Editors
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    Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Bean, and it has gotten 36 likes

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