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DESCRIPTION
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 Text Edit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean.
If you're pining away for Write Now-esque simplicity or just want a low-pressure writing environment, try Bean.
Features:
- 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 postion (excluding .txt, .html, .webarchive formats)
- all of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)
- please keep in mind that Bean is betaware
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.4.1:
- the most current version of Bean should now always work with CopyPaste Pro. Note: the CopyPaste Pro command Open Selection in Editor will start the most current version of Bean present; Open Editor however starts whatever version of Bean is contained within the CopyPaste Pro bundle. Thanks to Peter Hoerster for the code.
- added up-to-date French localization (thanks to Daniel Elmiger) and a new Italian localization (thanks to Stafano Carlini)
Notes
- Users have reported that Bean runs well on Snow Leopard, except for Preferences > Advanced > Interface > Suggest filename at first save. I believe there is a new API for that in Snow Leopard, so that will be fixed whenever I can do the first Snow Leopard build. My Powerbook G4 (not Snow Leopard compatible) somehow knew its days were coming to an end; it died. Happily, I now have an Intel-based Apple and will be installing Snow Leopard soon. ;-)
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Bean User Reviews (60 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 1 2009 |
XANDRA Not sure if this is a review, comment.In general this is an Excellent program, some small but vital improvements over Apple's Tex-Edit include: - ability to view invisibles while still maintaining ability to copy/paste graphics and text simultaneously As much as I like this app - I'm still desperate for Text-Edit Plus' Find/Replace. Is there anything out there with Tex-Edit Plus's find replace??? Till then I'm still dependant on Word.
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 | Oct 4 2009 |
AARGL Waow! Now that it's localized in French, Bean is not far to substitute for old Tex-Edit Plus! Add the ability to read or import Tex-Edit Plus format (I have, say, 200 Tex-Edit docs and it would be a pain in the arse to open/convert/save to rtf everyone of them... :-(, and I'll switch immediately. Add a default background color for any white backgrounded document, and I worship you! ;-)
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 | Oct 3 2009 |
DCANNIS The Italian translation don't work
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| Sep 28 2009 |
DORKYPANTS Another vote for Bean. It can open .webarchive files and let you get at the components within.
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| Sep 13 2009 |
BRAMHUBBELL I absolutely love this program. I haven't opened up Word in months.
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| Sep 12 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND Correction to my earlier review: I tried to donate. This guy is just too sweet! He flat out refuses to take donations. James Hoover, you are a scholar and a gentleman. Thank you for this wonderful free program.
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| Sep 12 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND Bean is so d@mn fast, it loads before you finish taking your finger off the button! If you want a no-nonsense, unbloated, easy to use word processing app, look no further. Bean is The One. Bean is peerless; it makes you proud to own a Mac. Along with WriteRoom, it meets 95% of my word processing needs. Once in a blue moon, I'll open up Word to make sure everything looks right (it always does) and using Word for just a few minutes will remind all over again of why I love Bean so much. Can't believe it's free! I donated anyway. If I ever meet the developer in real life -- he'd better watch out, 'cause I'd smother him with kisses!
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| Sep 12 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND Pardon my mistake: that sentence should read, "I'd donate anyway." I tried to donate, but the developer is unbelievably sweet and doesn't take donations.
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| Aug 31 2009 |
MWSCHMEER Another stellar update, and it's still all good! This is by far my go-to word processor. As a college professor, I truly appreciate the new Notes function--now I can easily add in-text comments with a few quick keyboard shortcuts. Yes, I'd love to see footnotes/endnotes, columns, and floating images, but as the developer points out on his web site, those features are outside the bounds of what he's attempting to do with Bean. This is a great app, and it just keeps getting better.
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| Aug 27 2009 |
ZACHWILL I love Bean. I've been using it for the past 2 years as my main word processor, and I can honestly say it's one of the best freeware programs available. Great job dev!
(Version 2.3.1) | |
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| Aug 12 2009 |
RUBAIYAT Nice app and getting nicer! If it only had multiple columns and footnotes, I'd switch from iText Pro in a blink. With floating images it would kill Pages too.
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