Bean is no longer being actively developed, but will be updated as necessary to patch bugs and maintain OS X compatibility

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

Bugfixes

Switched to asynchronous file saving using the saveToURL:::completionHandler method, and also restructured the code that collects extended attribute information for remembering the document UI state (20210711-1).

Edit > Speech > Start Speaking will now start speaking the text at the text cursor location rather than at the beginning of the document when no text is selected (20210712-1). Also, keyboard shortcuts have been added to Start Speaking and Stop Speaking.

Fixed a problem where creating a new document, with Preferences > View > Layout View and Preferences > General > Open Bugfixes

Fixed a problem where opening a document could fail because _NSViewClampSizeToLimits would cause an assertion failure at fabs(size.height) <= NSVIEW_GEOMETRY_LIMIT (20211220-1).

Changed the Find panel so that it no longer remembers the “Replace with:” text after [x] is selected or after app is relaunched (20211220-2).

Fixed a problem where a control could be missing from the Preferences window (20211221-1).