Free write text software for mac

Bean 2.3.1 is designed as a small and easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor) which helps you write conveniently, efficiently and comfortably.

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. 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.

Major Features:

1. A live word count;
2. A Get Info panel for in-depth statistics;
3. A zoom-slider to easily change the view scale;
4. An Inspector panel with lots of sliders;
5. Date-stamped backups;
6. Autosaving;
7. A page layout mode;
8. An alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue);
9. An option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces);
10. Selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
11. A floating windows option (like Stickies has);
12. Easy to use menus;
13. Remembers cursor postion (excluding .txt, .html, .webarchive formats);
14. All of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.).

Enhancements:

• Fixed UI glitch: Bean Preferences > Style > Line Spacing now assigns line spacing correctly (user reported).

Requirements:

• A Mac with a PPC or Intel processor running OS X 10.4+ Tiger or OS X 10.5+ Leopard.
  

Really Simple Text is an extremely light weight text editor that edits very very simple text documents.
It doesnt handle or force you to handle .rtf files that Apples TextEdit uses.
Now you can edit and work with PC .txt or the orignal simple text documents without having to resave them as .rtf.
Enhancements:
- Support for any file type drop (so you can edit anything as text)
- Optimization for 10.4.

Text Easy is a smal amd very simple text editor written in REALBasic for Mac OS X.

It can succesfully replace the TextEdit application and is completly freeware.

Read/Write Resource is a scripting addition which enables you as the name states to read and write resources.

Completly freeware.

Text wallet is a simple panel for storing and recalling to the clipboard frequently used text strings, just write to permanently store to disk, just touch text field for auto-copying text to the clipboard -ready to paste. Text strings may be multi-line.
Main features:
- Add as many fields as you need by clicking top button
- Texts can be complex, including multi-line texts
- Recall and auto-copy to clipboard text strings simply by clicking on a text field, or giving it focus, or typing into text field
- Double click on text field to paste
- Remove text fields by clicking "x" button near unwanted field
- To paste a text in a new field ot text wallet, copy the text from it source and then push top button, the text will be auto-pasted
- Text wallet auto-collapse to bar, auto-expand when mouse enters
- Application will auto-save all entries when you quit.
Enhancements:
- Universal Binary

SMS Sender 1.5.0 is a program allowing you to write longer texts and submitting this to cellular phones as multiple short messages

Write text messages in dashboard, send through mobile phone using bluetooth. Works with most bluetooth enabled phones from Nokia, Motorola and SonyEricsson among others.

Write the phone number in the top line, the message below and press send. The bluetooth icon color will inform you when message has passed through your phone and onto the cellular system. Hovering the mouse pointer above the icon will display additional information.

You will be charged the same amount by your phone company for messages sent through the widget, as for regular messages typed and sent through your phone. One short message can contain up to 160 letters, but the widget will allow larger messages by using several short messages if needed, as supported by your phone. Widget can use phones that Address Book does not support, but there are probably phones where Address Book works and this widget does not.

The widget is able to search your address book for people, allowing you to refer to friends by name instead of number. Note that only contacts in your computers Address Book are searched.

Kropper is a simple utility you can use to crop, resize and save images in jpeg format. It is a handy program particularly useful to him who usually publishes web-contents and is not able, or does not wish, to use complex programs to treat images.
Enhancements:
- Now it is possible to write text over the images.