Comments on: 11 Free Word Processors

By: Ali Shabdar

Ali Shabdar — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:00:05 +0000

Nice list, but you should mention Zoho Writer too.
It is cloud based (runs online) and it is more powerful than many desktop wordprocessors.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:20:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing all this great information. I love it that everyone is able to share their expertise and knowledge. I now know a lot about free word processing software in minimal time.

Cheers, Andrea

By: Ilya

Ilya — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:30:39 +0000

Have a look at PolyEdit Lite. It’s a new free word processor comparable to Jarte and AbiWord.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:42:05 +0000

Thanks Curt. I’ve used Acrobat Connect, but haven’t done much with Buzzword. I’ll have to check it out.

By: Curtis Carmack

Curtis Carmack — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:38:31 +0000

Mark,

You should try Buzzword (at acrobat.com), Adobe’s take on a cross-platform, browser-based word processor. It beats Google Docs hands down in terms of ease of use, formatting, and beauty. My high school and college-aged sons now use it exclusively for papers. The free version comes with 2 GB of storage. Very nice product. Also, it supports export to PDF and many other file types:
.doc
.docx
.xml
.epub
.odt
.txt
.rtf
and .html (though only as a zipped file).

Curt

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:24:19 +0000

Thanks for pointing out SSuite. I hadn’t heard of them before.

By: Vanja

Vanja — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:00:15 +0000

What a great list of free software, but I personally tend to favour SSuite Office’s free office suites. Their software also don’t need to run on Java or .NET, like so many open source office suites, so it makes their software very small and efficient.

http://www.ssuitesoft.com

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:08:15 +0000

I write technical documents for a living, and I also write fiction in my “spare” time. My lightweight word processor test is to see how easy it is to set up the standard mss submission format. You know the drill: single-spaced contact info at the top, double-spaced Courier, and (the trickiest) page headings only on p. 2 onward. Some of the above suggestions were downright painful. Eventually I stumbled upon Jarte and haven’t looked back. (nerdalert) As a side benefit, it saves clean, simple, and well-formed RTF header information, something I appreciate and shows the care taken under the covers to make the program work correctly. (/nerdalert)

By: Gui

Gui — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:53:42 +0000

If you have Google docs on your list, then you should have Zoho too. It has everything an office suite should have and some more, and it is also in the “online” space like Google Docs. Very nice and polished suite!

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:04:54 +0000

Thanks Keith and Rob for the suggestions.

By: Jeff Miles

Jeff Miles — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:22:19 +0000

Keith beat me to the punch, but since I am already here, Q10 rocks. I love it.

By: Rob Donoghue

Rob Donoghue — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:12:07 +0000

Writemonkey is also in the JDarkRoom/Q10 space.

http://writemonkey.com/

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:15:49 +0000

Q10 is another JDarkRoom type distraction-free word processor. http://www.baara.com/q10