Free/open source software (FOSS)

• AbiWord
• GNU TeXmacs
• Groff
• KWord
• LyX
• OpenOffice.org Writer
• Ted

Proprietary software

Commercial software

• AppleWorks Word Processing - Windows and Mac
• Applix Word - Linux
• Atlantis Word Processor - Windows
• FrameMaker
• Gobe Productive Word Processor
• Han/Gul (a.k.a. HWP)
• InCopy
• IntelliTalk
• Kingsoft Writer - Windows and Linux
• Lotus Word Pro
• Mariner Write - Mac
• Mathematica - technical and scientific word processing
• Mellel - Mac
• Microsoft Word - Windows and Mac
• Microsoft Works Word Processor
• Microsoft Write - Mac (a stripped-down version of Word)
• Nisus Writer - Mac
• Nota Bene - Windows
• Note Pad - Windows
• Pages - Mac
• PolyEdit
• Ragtime (an all-in-one desktop publishing software) - Mac, Windows
• StarOffice Writer
• TextEdit (Bundled with Mac OS X)
• TextMaker
• ThinkFree Office Write
• WordFile4ME
• WordPad included with all versions of Windows since 95. Source code available from Microsoft as an example.
• WordPerfect
• Xoom Office Word Pro

Freeware

• Atlantis Nova
• AbiWord
• IBM Lotus Symphony
• Jarte
• JWPce is a Japanese word processor, designed primarily for the English speaker who is reading and/or writing in Japanese.
• Madhyam
• Qjot
• Kingsoft Office Personal Edition

Online Word Processor

• Adobe Buzzword
• Google Docs
• Nevrocode Docs
• PDSText - free online Unicode text editor for Indian languages
• Springnote
• ThinkFree Office Write
• ZCubes Free online word processor - no downloads needed
• Zoho Writer

Historical

• 1st Word / 1st Word Plus Atari ST family
• Amí
• Apricot Computers SuperWriter
• AtariWriter - Atari 8-bit family
• Bravo
• Bank Street Writer
• Chiwriter
• DeScribe
• DeskMate - strictly speaking, DeskMate had a word processor component within it
• DisplayWrite
• DPCX/DOSF
• EasyWriter
• Electric Pencil
• Excellence - Amiga
• FrameWork
• Final Writer - Amiga
• FullWrite Professional - Mac
• geoWrite - Part of GEOS (8-bit operating system)
• Gypsy
• IBM 3730
• Impression - Acorn Archimedes
• Inter-Word - BBC Micro
• Lazy Writer
• Letter Perfect
• Lexicon
• LocoScript
• Lotus Manuscript
• LotusWorks - Word processor, spreadsheet, graphing program, telecommunications program
• MacAuthor
• MacWrite
• Magic Wand
• MindWrite - Mac
• MultiMate
• NewWord
• OmniWriter - Commodore 64
• PaperClip
• PC-Write
• Perfect Writer - CP/M-80, CP/M-86 and MS-DOS Part of the Perfect Office suite, incuded with early Kaypro 8-bit computers
• Personal Write from Cloanto, evolution of C1 Text - Amiga
• /Professional Write/IBM Writing Assistant
• PipeDream - Acorn Archimedes, Z88
• Protext
• ProWrite - Amiga
• RUNScript
• Scripsit
• SpeedScript
• Sprint
• Taste
• Textcraft Pro - Amiga
• TJ-2
• Transwrite - Amiga
• View - BBC Micro
• View Professional - BBC Micro
• VolksWriter
• WindowWorks - successor to LotusWorks
• Word Juggler - Quark, Inc., for Apple III and Apple II
• WordMARC
• WordStar
• Wordwise - BBC Micro
• Wordwise Plus - BBC Micro
• Wordsworth - BBC Micro
• Wordworth - Amiga
• The Write Stuff
• WriteNow - Mac
• QText
• XyWrite

See also

• Comparison of word processors
• List of office suites

References