Bygga is easy to use, allows Markdown, and uploading site updates can be done straight from the app.

This isn't iWeb, or another drag & drop style app. Bygga creates static pages from a HTML template that you make yourself, or download a template from the developer's site.

I'm not a web designer, and my knowledge of code is limited. But, still I found Bygga easy to use. If you enjoy tinkering with web design, you'll love Bygga.

Check out the link to the developers site before trying this. There's a warning that says your Mac might only start up in safe mode after installing, and a warning to back up all your important files ... Hmmm, think I'll pass on this one.

Meant to add: keep View > Fit Page Width on and it resizes perfectly with Mega Zoom.

With live word count, different font and bg colours for screen and print, Bean could just be the simple text editing app I've been craving.

It does get slow with long documents though. I opened a file that was about 25,000 words and typing became very slow.

I'll start using it in the hopes that the developer will iron out the kinks :-)

This does exactly what it the developer says it does: switches off all distractions, gives you a text window, and effectively disables your delete key (you can only strike-through mistakes). Your Mac becomes a typewriter (with sounds if you so choose).

You can allow more regular style text editing via the preferences, so, if a disabled delete key freaks you out then you can enable it again.

I love the idea of this app and am eager to see how it will be developed. What stops me from using it as a writing environment full-time is the fact that it cannot open files (even files saved in its own format). I type a page, save it as a Writer.app file, then try to open it again, and all I get is a blank page. The same is true of an RTF file. Writer.app can export as an RTF, but cannot open the file properly so I can continue where I left off in my last writing session. The strange thing is, if I open the Writer.app file format in TextMate what I've written is there.

As a professional writer, my biggest fear is loosing my work because an app hasn't saved it properly. Until Writer.app can save and recover work properly, I cannot use it.

I sincerely like the simplicity this app offers. I've spent money on "novel writing apps" with lots of functions that tell you how to organise your work (like I can't do that anyway). The only thing that helps the writing process is simplicity, which is exactly what Writer.app (or at least the idea behind it) offers.

Solve the issues with saving files (perhaps even adding an auto-save and backing up function) and I'd be happy to start using Writer.app for my work.