List of Word Processors (Page 1 of 2)

Bob Hawes copied this list from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_word_processors . He added six additional programs, and relocated the Freeware section so that it directly follows the FOSS section. This way, most of the software on page 1 is free, and most of the software on page 2 is not. Bob then used page 1 as the basis for his April 15, 2011 presentation Free Word Processors. (Note that most of these links go to Wikipedia web pages, but those marked with [WEB] go to non -Wikipedia websites).

Free/open source software (FOSS):

• AbiWord

• Bean

• Caligra Words

• Document.Editor [WEB]

• EZ Word

• Feng Office Community Edition

• GNU TeXmacs

• Groff

• JWPce (A Japanese word processor designed for English speakers reading or writing Japanese).

• Kword

• LibreOffice Writer (A fork of OpenOffice.org)

• LyX

• NeoOffice [WEB]

• Notepad++ (NOT from Microsoft) [WEB]

• OpenOffice.org Writer

• Ted

• TextEdit (Bundled with Mac OS X)

• vi and Vim (text editor)

Proprietary Software (Freeware):

• Atlantis Nova

• Baraha (Free Indian Language Software)

• IBM Lotus Symphony

• Jarte

• Kingsoft Office Personal Edition

• Madhyam

• Qjot

• TED Notepad

• Softmaker/Textmaker [WEB]

• PolyEdit Lite [WEB]

• Rough Draft [WEB]

Proprietary Software (Commercial):

• Apple iWork (Mac)

• Apple Pages (Mac)

• Applix Word (Linux)

• Atlantis Word Processor (Windows)

• Altsoft Xml2PDF (Windows)

List of Word Processors (Page 2 of 2)

• Final Draft (Screenplay/Teleplay word processor)

• FrameMaker

• Gobe Productive Word Processor

• Han/Gul (a.k.a. HWP)

• InCopy

• IntelliTalk

• iStudio Publisher (Mac)

• Kingsoft Writer (Windows and Linux)

• Lotus Word Pro

• Mariner Write (Mac)

• Mathematica (Technical and scientific word processing)

• Mellel (Mac)

• Microsoft Word (Windows and Mac)

• Microsoft Works Word Processor

• Microsoft Write (A stripped-down version of Word) (Mac)

• Nisus Writer (Mac)

• Notepad (Windows)

• Polaris Document Master (Android and Windows Mobile)

• Pages (Mac)

• PolyEdit

• Ragtime (All-in-one desktop publishing software) (Windows and Mac)

• Oracle Open Office Writer

• Scientific WorkPlace [WEB]

• Scrivener

• StarOffice Writer

• TextMaker

• ThinkFree Office Write

• WordFile4ME

• WordPad (Included since Windows 95). Source code is available from Microsoft as an example.

• WordPerfect

• Xoom Office Word Pro

Online Word Processors:

• Adobe Buzzword

• EtherPad (Real time word processor)

• FeyaSoft Office Suite [WEB]

• Google Docs (Free online service)

• Nevrocode Docs

• Microsoft Office Web Apps (Free online service)

• ThinkFree Office Write

• Verbosus (Free LaTeX and Octave Editor)

• WriteOnline

• ZCubes (Free online service)

• Zoho Writer