Edit text, check spelling, count words
by Volker Weber
Bean is a rich text editor, with many niceties added to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. It is, to use a horrible cliché, Text Edit on steroids. Bean uses Apple's very cool NSText object to do most of what it does, but it adds live word count (thanks Keith!) and the ability to adjust printed margins. Lots of other bells and whistles too (see Features below). MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people. But sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is the niche where Bean lives.
Bean is all I really need when writing manuscripts. But since I have Microsoft Word, and it works so well for me, I will probably continue to use it. And if it is only for the grammar check. But Bean is tempting ...