The following is a list of notable

word processor A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features. Early word processors were stand-alone devices dedicated to the function, but current ...

Free and open-source software

* AbiWord * Apache OpenOffice Writer * Calligra Words * Collabora Online Writer – enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice, included with Online, Mobile and Desktop apps *

EtherPad Etherpad (previously known as EtherPad) is an open-source, web-based collaborative real-time editor, allowing authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time, with the ability to display each ...

– real-time word processor * GNU TeXmacs – document preparation system * Groff * JWPce – Japanese word processor, designed primarily for the English speaker who is reading or writing in Japanese *

KWord KWord is a deprecated word processor and a desktop publishing application, part of the KOffice suite. It has been obsoleted by Calligra Words of the Calligra Suite. History KWord was created by Reginald Stadlbauer as part of the KOffice projec ...

LibreOffice Writer LibreOffice Writer is the free and open-source word processor and desktop publishing component of the LibreOffice software package and is a fork of OpenOffice.org Writer. Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfe ...

LyX LyX (styled as ; pronounced ) (Based on 3 developers, they say it can be pronounced "Licks", "Lucks" and "Leeks") is an open source, graphical user interface document processor based on the LaTeX typesetting system. Unlike most word processors, ...

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TeX Tex may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tex (nickname), a list of people and fictional characters with the nickname * Joe Tex (1933–1982), stage name of American soul singer Joseph Arrington Jr. Entertainment * ''Tex'', the Italian ...

document processor * OnlyOffice Desktop Editors * Pathetic Writer – Mac and Linux * Ted – Linux *

TextEdit TextEdit is an open-source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. It is now distributed with macOS since Apple Inc.'s acquisition of NeXT, and available as a GNUstep application for other Unix-like ope ...

– Mac and Linux *

Trelby ''Trelby'' is a free and open source screenwriting program which focuses on providing a simple, uncluttered interface to writing screenplays. It is a rebranding of an older screenwriting program called Blyte. It currently runs on both Windows and L ...

– screenplay word processor * WordGrinder – minimalist TUI word processor

Proprietary software

Commercial

Apple Pages Pages is a word processor developed by Apple Inc. It is part of the iWork productivity suite and runs on the macOS, iPadOS and iOS operating systems. It is also available on iCloud on the web. The first version of Pages was released in Febru ...

, part of its

iWork iWork is an office suite of applications created by Apple Inc. for its macOS and iOS operating systems, and also available cross-platform through the iCloud website. It includes the presentation application Keynote, the word processing and ...

suite – Mac, iOS * Applix Word – Linux * Atlantis Word Processor – Windows * DavkaWriter – Windows and Mac * Documents To Go – Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, Symbian * Final Draft – screenplay/teleplay word processor * Adobe FrameMaker – Windows * Gobe Productive Word Processor – Windows and Linux *

Hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The le ...

(also known as HWP) – Windows, Mac and Linux * IA Writer – Mac, iOS * IBM DisplayWrite – DOS *IBM SCRIPT – IBM VM/370 *IBM SCRIPT/VS – IBM

z/VM z/VM is the current version in IBM's VM family of virtual machine operating systems. z/VM was first released in October 2000 and remains in active use and development . It is directly based on technology and concepts dating back to the 1960s, wi ...

z/OS z/OS is a 64-bit operating system for IBM z/Architecture mainframes, introduced by IBM in October 2000. It derives from and is the successor to OS/390, which in turn was preceded by a string of MVS versions.Starting with the earliest: * ...

systems * Ichitaro – Japanese word processor produced by

JustSystems is a Japanese software development house. The company's main products were a word processor, Ichitaro ("JohnnyOne"), a Japanese input method, ATOK. In 2010s, they focus on correspondence education and enterprise software. Description JustSyste ...

– Windows * Adobe InCopy – Mac and Windows * IntelliTalk * iStudio Publisher – Mac * Kingsoft Writer – Windows and Linux * Mathematica – technical and scientific word processing * Mellel – Mac *

Microsoft Word Microsoft Word is a word processor, word processing software developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983, under the name ''Multi-Tool Word'' for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other pla ...

– Windows and Mac * Microsoft Works Word Processor (abandoned) – Windows * Microsoft Write – Windows and Mac (a stripped-down version of Word, abandoned) * Nisus Writer – Mac *

Nota Bene (, or ; plural form ) is a Latin phrase meaning "note well". It is often abbreviated as NB, n.b., or with the ligature and first appeared in English writing . In Modern English, it is used, particularly in legal papers, to draw the atten ...

– Windows, Mac * Polaris Office – Android and Windows Mobile * PolyEdit – Windows *

QuickOffice Quickoffice is a discontinued freeware proprietary productivity suite for mobile devices which allows viewing, creating and editing documents, presentations and spreadsheets. It consists of ''Quickword'' (a word processor), ''Quicksheet'' (a spre ...

– Android, iOS, Symbian (abandoned) *

RagTime Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that flourished from the 1890s to 1910s. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged" rhythm. Ragtime was popularized during the early 20th century by composers such as Scott J ...

– Windows and Mac *

Scrivener A scrivener (or scribe) was a person who could read and write or who wrote letters to court and legal documents. Scriveners were people who made their living by writing or copying written material. This usually indicated secretarial and ad ...

– Windows, Mac and Linux * TechWriter – RISC OS * Text Control – Word Processing SDK Library *

TextMaker TextMaker is a word processor developed by the German company SoftMaker and available as part of the SoftMaker office suite. TextMaker is available for Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android. Some reduced versions of TextMaker are released as free ...

– Windows and Linux * ThinkFree Office Write – Windows, Mac and Linux * Ulysses – Mac, iPadOS, iOS * WordPad – previously known as "Write" in older versions than Windows 95; has been included in all versions of Windows since Windows 1.01. * WordPerfect – Windows and Linux

Freeware

* Atlantis Nova – Windows * BabelPad – Windows * Baraha – free Indian language software * Bean – Mac * Jarte – Windows * Kingsoft Writer Personal Edition *

Online

* Authorea – word processor for students and researchers * Collabora Online Writer – enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice * Google Docs * Microsoft Word Online – free online service * OnlyOffice * ThinkFree Office Write * WriteOnline * XaitPorter – word processor for Enterprise, allowing both single-user and team collaboration approach

Historical

References

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Word processors A word processor is an electronic device (later a computer software application) for text, composing, editing, formatting, and printing. The word processor was a stand-alone office machine in the 1960s, combining the keyboard text-entry and prin ...