Free/open source software (FOSS

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• AbiWord
  AbiWord
  AbiWord is a free and open source software word processor. It was originally started by SourceGear Corporation as the first part of a proposed AbiSuite. Development stopped when SourceGear changed their focus to Internet appliances. AbiWord was adopted by some open source developers and AbiWord...
  
  
• Bean
  Bean (word processor)
  Bean is an open source, free software word processor currently available for Mac OS X only. According to its creator James Hoover, it is not meant to replace Microsoft Word, but to be a lean word processor that was beautiful and user friendly...
  
  
• Document.Editor
• EZ Word
  EZ Word
  EZ Word was a word processor developed as part of the Andrew User Interface System, a user-interface research project jointly done by both IBM and the Carnegie Mellon University. Originally developed for UNIX systems, it was the first graphical word processor available for Linux.Many people found...
  
  
• Feng Office Community Edition
• GNU TeXmacs
  GNU TeXmacs
  GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific word processor and typesetting component of the GNU Project. It was inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs, though it shares no code with those programs. TeXmacs does use TeX fonts. It is written and maintained by Joris van der Hoeven. The program produces structured...
  
  
• Groff
  Groff (software)
  Groff is the GNU replacement for the troff and nroff text formatters. It is an original implementation written primarily in C++ by James Clark and is modeled after ditroff, including many extensions. The first version, 0.3.1, was released June 1990. The first stable version, 1.04, was announced in...
  
  
• JWPce
  JWPce
  JWPce is a simple Japanese-language word processor that runs on the Windows 95, ME, 2000, XP, NT, and CE platforms. It is designed for non-native speakers of Japanese who want to produce Japanese-language documents. Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, JWPce is free...
  
   is a Japanese word processor, designed primarily for the English speaker who is reading or writing in Japanese.
• KWord
  KWord
  Calligra Words is a free word processor, part of Calligra Suite and developed by KDE.The text-layout scheme in Words is based on frames, making it similar to FrameMaker by Adobe. These can be placed anywhere on the page, and can incorporate text, graphics and embedded objects...
  
  
• LyX
  LyX
  LyX is a document processor following the self-coined "what you see is what you mean" paradigm , as opposed to the WYSIWYG ideas used by word processors...
  
  
• LibreOffice
  LibreOffice
  LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. It is largely compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, and available on a variety of platforms...
  
   Writer (fork of OpenOffice)
• OpenOffice.org Writer
  OpenOffice.org Writer
  OpenOffice.org Writer is the word processor component of the OpenOffice.org software package. Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect, with some of their features....
  
  
• Ted
  Ted (word processor)
  Ted is a word processor for the X Window System environment, which runs on Linux and other Unix-like systems. Developed primarily by Mark de Does, Ted is a lightweight yet full-featured word processor....
  
  

Commercial software

• Apple Pages, part of its iWork suite
  IWork
  iWork is an office suite of desktop applications created by Apple for the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. The first version of iWork, iWork '05, was released in 2005. The suite originally bundled Keynote, a presentation program which had previously been sold as a standalone application, and...
  
   - Mac
• Applix Word - Linux
• Atlantis Word Processor
  Atlantis Word Processor
  Atlantis Word Processor is a stand-alone low-end word processor for Microsoft Windows developed by Rising Sun Solutions, Inc. It was previously known as "Atlantis Ocean Mind"....
  
   - Windows
• Altsoft Xml2PDF
  Altsoft Xml2PDF
  Altsoft Xml2PDF Workstation is a commercial software for converting xml-based files to portable document format . The product is intended for the professional publishing business community. It runs on Windows PCs...
  
   - Windows
• Final Draft
  Final Draft
  Final Draft is screenwriting software for writing and formatting a screenplay to meet the screenplay submission standards set by theater, television and film industries. The program is developed and owned by Final Draft, Inc., headquartered in Calabasas, CA; the company also owns Script magazine...
  
   Screenplay/Teleplay word processor
• FrameMaker
  FrameMaker
  Adobe FrameMaker is a document processor for the production and manipulation of large structured documents. It is produced by Adobe Systems. Although FrameMaker has evolved slowly in recent years, it maintains a strong following among professional technical writers.- Overview :FrameMaker has more...
  
  
• Gobe Productive Word Processor
• Han/Gul (a.k.a. HWP)
• InCopy
• IntelliTalk
  IntelliTalk
  IntelliTalk is a word processor by Synapse Adaptive. It exists in the IntelliTools family of products, and is intended for students in kindergarten through eighth grade...
  
  
• iStudio Publisher
  IStudio Publisher
  iStudio Publisher is a desktop publishing application developed by c:four.iStudio Publisher 1.0 was released on 6 January 2009 at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco....
  
   - Mac
• Kingsoft Writer - Windows and Linux
• Lotus Word Pro
  Lotus Word Pro
  Lotus Word Pro is word processor software produced by IBM's Lotus Software group for use on Microsoft Windows-compatible computers and on IBM OS/2 Warp. Word Pro can be obtained as part of the Lotus SmartSuite office suite....
  
  
• Mariner Write - Mac
• Mathematica
  Mathematica
  Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing...
  
   - technical and scientific word processing
• Mellel
  Mellel
  Mellel is a word processor for Mac OS X, developed since 2002 and marketed as especially suited for technical and academic writers. It is made by RedleX, a small software company from Israel. New features are added to the program every few months, many of which come from user suggestions...
  
   - Mac
• Microsoft Word
  Microsoft Word
  Microsoft Word is a word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS , the Apple Macintosh , the AT&T Unix PC , Atari ST , SCO UNIX,...
  
   - Windows and Mac
• Microsoft Works
  Microsoft Works
  Microsoft Works is an integrated package software that is produced by Microsoft. Works is smaller, less expensive, and has fewer features than Microsoft Office or other major office suites. Its core functionality includes a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system...
  
   Word Processor
• Microsoft Write - Mac (a stripped-down version of Word)
• Nisus Writer
  Nisus Writer
  Nisus Writer, originally Nisus, is a word processing program for the Apple Macintosh. The program is available in two varieties: Nisus Writer Express, and Nisus Writer Pro....
  
   - Mac
• Polaris Document Master
  Polaris Document Master
  Polaris Document Master by Infraware Inc. is an office suite that runs on mobile platforms such as Android and Windows Mobile. The suite is divided into a word processor, spreadsheet editor, presentation editor, and a file viewer. It is capable of reading and exporting in Microsoft Office file...
  
   - Android and Windows Mobile
• Pages
  Pages
  Pages is a word processor and page layout application developed by Apple. It is part of the iWork productivity suite and runs on the Mac OS X & iOS operating systems. The first version of Pages was announced on January 11, 2005, and was released one month later. The most recent Macintosh version,...
  
   - Mac
• PolyEdit
  PolyEdit
  PolyEdit is a compact multipurpose word processor and text editor for Microsoft Windows. It has been developed by PolySoft Solutions since 1998.The program can be downloaded as PolyEdit Lite, which is free for home use...
  
  
• Ragtime
  RagTime (computer program)
  RagTime is a computer program primarily used for desktop publishing. The software combines spreadsheet features with word processing and embedded multimedia....
  
   (an all-in-one desktop publishing
  Desktop publishing
  Desktop publishing is the creation of documents using page layout software on a personal computer.The term has been used for publishing at all levels, from small-circulation documents such as local newsletters to books, magazines and newspapers...
  
   software) - Mac, Windows
• Oracle Open Office Writer
• QuickSilver
  Quicksilver (software)
  Quicksilver is a computer utility software program for Mac OS X, originally developed by Blacktree Software and distributed freely. It is essentially a graphical shell for the Mac OS X operating system, allowing users to use the keyboard to rapidly perform tasks such as launching...
  
   formerly Interleaf
• Scientific Word & Workplace - technical and scientific word processing producing latex documents
• Scrivener
  Scrivener (software)
  Scrivener is a word-processing program designed for writers. Scrivener provides a management system for documents, notes and metadata. This allows the user to keep track of notes, concepts, research and whole documents for reference...
  
  
• TextMaker
  TextMaker
  TextMaker is a word processor developed by the Nuremberg based software company SoftMaker and available as part of the SoftMaker office suite...
  
  
• ThinkFree Office
  ThinkFree Office
  ThinkFree Office by Haansoft ThinkFree Co. Ltd., a subsidiary company of Haansoft Corporation, is an office suite written in Java that runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and Android platforms....
  
   Write
• WordFile4ME
  WordFile4ME
  WordFile4ME is a shareware Object Linked Embedded capable word processor with nine different stages/faces, to suit curriculum requirements the stage menu selector allows features to be enabled progressively...
  
  
• WordPad
  WordPad
  WordPad is a basic word processor that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 upwards. It is more advanced than Notepad but simpler than Microsoft Works Word Processor and Microsoft Word. It replaced Microsoft Write....
  
  , previously known as "Write" in older versions than Windows 95, has been included in all versions of Windows since Windows 1.01. Source code available from Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
   as an example.
• WordPerfect
  WordPerfect
  WordPerfect is a word processing application, now owned by Corel.Bruce Bastian, a Brigham Young University graduate student, and BYU computer science professor Dr. Alan Ashton joined forces to design a word processing system for the city of Orem's Data General Corp. minicomputer system in 1979...
  
  
• Xiosis Scribe - Windows
• Xoom Office
  XOOM
  Xoom was an early dot-com that used to primarily provide free unlimited space web hosting, similar to GeoCities.-History:Xoom was founded by Chris Kitze in September 1996 as a download website offering free clipart and a productivity suite including a word-processing application, centering around a...
  
  Word Pro

Freeware

Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...

• Atlantis Nova
• Baraha
  Baraha
  Baraha is a word processing application for creating documents in Indian languages. It was developed by Sheshadrivasu Chandrashekaran with an intention to provide a freeware to enable and encourage Indians use their native languages on the computers. Baraha can be effectively used for creating...
  
   Free Indian Language Software
• IBM Lotus Symphony
  IBM Lotus Symphony
  IBM Lotus Symphony is a suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, presentations and other documents, and is currently distributed as freeware. First released in 2007, the suite has a name similar to the 1980s DOS suite Lotus Symphony, but the two programs are...
  
  
• Jarte
  Jarte
  Jarte is a word processor for users of Microsoft Windows, based around the WordPad engine. In terms of market appeal, Jarte sits between the feature laden Microsoft Word and other more basic word processors such as Notepad. The standard version of Jarte is offered free of charge, while an enhanced...
  
  
• Kingsoft Office Personal Edition
• Madhyam
  Madhyam
  Madhyam is a Devanagari word processor that complies with the InScript Devanagari Text Input Standard authenticated by the Government of India, the Unicode Consortium and Bureau of Indian Standards. It allows typing text in Indian languages, i.e...
  
  
• Qjot
• TED Notepad
  TED Notepad
  TED Notepad is a freeware portable text editor for Microsoft Windows. The software has been developed by Juraj Šimlovič since 2001, originally as a school project. It has a similar cosmetic look to Notepad, but provides variety of features for advanced plain-text editing...
  
  
• SSuite Office - WordGraph
• Softmaker/Textmaker
• PolyEdit Lite
• Rough Draft

Online word processors

• Adobe Buzzword
• EtherPad
  EtherPad
  Etherpad is a 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 author's text in their own color...
  
  , real time word processor
• Google Docs - free online service
• Nevrocode Docs
• Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
   Office Web Apps
  Office Web Apps
  Microsoft Office Web Apps is a web-based version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite. It includes the web-based versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft OneNote. The web applications allow users to access their documents directly from anywhere within a...
  
   - free online service
• ThinkFree Office
  ThinkFree Office
  ThinkFree Office by Haansoft ThinkFree Co. Ltd., a subsidiary company of Haansoft Corporation, is an office suite written in Java that runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and Android platforms....
  
   Write
• Verbosus
  Verbosus
  Verbosus is a browser based LaTeX editor which allows a user to create and handle latex projects in a browser.The graphical user interface does deliberately not resemble non-browser-based Editors such as LEd or TeXworks...
  
   - Free LaTeX and Octave Editor
• WriteOnline
  WriteOnline
  WriteOnline is an online word processor from Crick Software that incorporates writing support tools and is designed for schools and colleges.-Features:...
  
  
• ZCubes
  ZCubes
  ZCubes is free web-based software that is intended for the creation of documents including web pages, web sites, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, albums, and portals.-Overview:...
  
   – free online service
• Zoho Writer
• FeyaSoft Office Suite#FeyaSoft MyWord

Historical

• 1st Word / 1st Word Plus
  1st Word / 1st Word Plus
  1st Word and 1st Word Plus were word processors developed by GST Computer Systems in the 1980s. The original package, 1st Word, was given away free with all Atari STs. The later 1st Word Plus was sold by GST and was more advanced....
  
   Atari ST family & Acorn
• Amí
  Amí
  Ami was the name of a word processing program developed and marketed by Samna in the late 1980s. It was the first WYSIWYG word processor and was an obvious threat to command driven word processors such as WordPerfect and Microsoft Word who borrowed their use model from the Wang word processor...
  
  
• AppleWorks
  AppleWorks
  AppleWorks refers to two different office suite products, both of which are now discontinued. Originally, AppleWorks was an integrated software package for the Apple II platform, released in 1984 by Apple Computer...
  
   Word Processing - Windows and Mac
• Apricot Computers
  Apricot Computers
  Apricot Computers is a British manufacturer of business personal computers, originally founded in 1965 as "Applied Computer Techniques" , changing its name to Apricot Computers, Ltd. in the 1980s...
  
   SuperWriter
• AtariWriter
  AtariWriter
  AtariWriter is a word processing application for the Atari 8-bit computers. It is a 16KB ROM cartridge that works with either a cassette or disk drive.-Details:...
  
   - Atari 8-bit family
• Bravo
  Bravo (software)
  Bravo was the first WYSIWYG document preparation program. It provided multi-font capability using the bitmap displays on the Xerox Alto personal computer...
  
  
• Bank Street Writer
  Bank Street Writer
  Bank Street Writer was a word processor for Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore, Macintosh, and IBM PC computers.It was designed in 1981 by Jeff Nilson, software manager at Intentional Educations in Watertown, MA and Gene Kuzmiak, then a senior at Harvard College...
  
  
• ChiWriter
  ChiWriter
  ChiWriter is a commercial scientific text editor for MS-DOS, created by Cay Horstmann in 1986. It was one of the first WYSIWYG editors that could write mathematical formulas, even on IBM PC XT computers that were then common....
  
  
• Cut & Paste - Commodore 64
  Commodore 64
  The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...
  
  
• DeskMate
  DeskMate
  DeskMate was a software application that provided an operating environment that competed with early versions of Microsoft Windows. It originally was made for Tandy's TRS-DOS Operating System and for their TRS-80 line of computers, but eventually shifted to PC, where it was developed using C and...
  
   - strictly speaking, DeskMate had a word processor component within it
• DisplayWrite
  DisplayWrite
  DisplayWrite was a word processor software application that IBM developed and marketed for its line of IBM PCs. Its document files used the RFT or DCA filename extension, both of which were standards on IBM mainframe computers...
  
  
• DPCX
  DPCX
  DPCX was an operating system for the IBM 8100. IBM hoped it would help their installed base of IBM 3790 customers migrate to the 8100 and the DPPX operating system...
  
  /DOSF
• Easyscript - For Commodore 64 computers
• EasyWriter
  EasyWriter
  EasyWriter was a word processor first written for the Apple II series computer in 1979, the first word processor for that platform. It was written by John Draper's Cap'n Software, which also produced a version of Forth, which EasyWriter was developed in....
  
   - DOS and Apple II (CP/M
  CP/M
  CP/M was a mass-market operating system created for Intel 8080/85 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc...
  
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• Electric Pencil
  Electric Pencil
  Electric Pencil, released in December 1976 by Michael Shrayer, was the first word processor for home computers.-History:In 1975, the "laid-back" Shrayer was "semi-retired" from 20 years as a New York filmmaker, and had moved to California for a quieter life...
  
  
• Excellence - Amiga
  Amiga
  The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...
  
  
• FullWrite Professional
  FullWrite Professional
  FullWrite Professional was a word processor application for the Apple Macintosh, released in late 1988 by Ashton-Tate. Though it was released a year later than promised and had a number of problems, it developed a faithful following and some amount of commercial success...
  
   - Mac
• Gypsy
  Gypsy (software)
  Gypsy was the first document preparation system based on a mouse and graphical user interface to take advantage of those technologies to virtually eliminate modes. Its operation would be familiar to any user of a modern personal computer...
  
  
• Homepak
  Homepak
  Homepak by Batteries Included, was an integrated application for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit personal computers.Homepak combined word-processor, database and communications modules into one application.*Hometext*Homefind*Hometerm...
  
   for Commodore 64
  Commodore 64
  The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...
  
   and Atari
  Atari
  Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA . The original Atari, Inc. was founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. It was a pioneer in...
  
  
• IBM 3730
  IBM 3730
  In the late 1970s, the IBM 3730, a word-processing variant of the IBM 3790 was announced. It used 3790 hardware but its software made it a dedicated shared-logic word-processing system which could support a dozen or more word-processing IBM 3732 terminals....
  
  
• Interleaf
  Interleaf
  Founded in 1981, Interleaf was a company that created software products for the technical publishing creation and distribution process. Its initial product was the first commercial document processor that integrated text and graphics editing, producing WYSIWYG output at near-typeset quality...
  
   - Now called QuickSilver
• Lexicon
  Lexicon (program)
  Lexicon was a text editor / word processor MS-DOS program that was extremely popular in the Soviet Union and Russia at the end of 1980s and in 1990s. Some estimate that Lexicon was illegally installed on 95% of all Russian PCs. The last version for MS-DOS was 3.0...
  
  
• LocoScript
  LocoScript
  thumb|right|400px|The opening Disc Management screen in LocoScript 1.40. The "hidden files" are the LocoScript software.The word processing software package LocoScript by Locomotive Software was introduced as one of the programs bundled with the Amstrad PCW, a personal computer launched in 1985...
  
  
• Lotus Manuscript
  Lotus Manuscript
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• MacWrite
  MacWrite
  MacWrite was a word processor application released along with the first Apple Macintosh systems in 1984. It was the first such program that was widely available to the public to offer WYSIWYG operation, with multiple fonts and styles...
  
  
• Magic Wand
  Magic Wand (software)
  Magic Wand is the name of a piece of word-processing software for CP/M-based computers first released in 1979, written by Mike Griffin. Les Pinter was COO and Bill Radding was VP of Marketing...
  
  
• MindWrite
  MindWrite
  MindWrite is an early word processor designed for Macintosh computers. It was published by DeltaPoint.It appeared after MacWrite and has several features that make it appealing to users. It can create multi-level outlines and show them in full, only the first-level outline level or any number of...
  
   - Mac
• MultiMate
  MultiMate
  MultiMate was a word processor developed by Softword Systems Inc. for IBM PC MS-DOS computers in the early 1980s. Wilton H. Jones, a programmer turned entrepreneur MultiMate was a word processor developed by Softword Systems Inc. (later renamed Multimate International) for IBM PC MS-DOS computers...
  
  
• NewWord - derivative of WordStar used mainly on Concurrent DOS
• Norton Textra Writer
• PaperClip
  PaperClip
  PaperClip was a word processor for the Commodore 64, 128 , and Atari 8 bit personal computers.The Commodore 64 version of PaperClip was written by Steve Douglas and was rewritten for the Atari personal computer by Steve Ahlstrom and Dan Moore....
  
   - For Commodore 64 computers
• PC-Write
  PC-Write
  PC-Write was a computer word processor and was one of the first three widely popular software products sold via the marketing method that became known as shareware. It was originally written by Bob Wallace, in early 1983....
  
  
• PC Type
• PFS First Choice - DOS
• pfs:Write
  Pfs:Write
  pfs:Write was a simple early word processor for Apple II and DOS systems created by Software Publishing Corporation. It included basic features such as automatic word wrapping, spell checking, copy and paste, underlining, and boldfacing...
  
  /Professional Write/IBM Writing Assistant
• Protext
• Prowrite, a word processor for Commodore Amiga computers
• Scripsit
  Scripsit
  Scripsit is a word processing application written for the Radio Shack TRS-80 line of computers. Versions were available for most if not all computers sold under the TRS-80 name, including the Color Computer and several pocket computer designs, as well as the Tandy version of the Xenix operating...
  
  
• Signum
  Signum
  Signum is Latin for "sign" and may refer to:* Signum function or sign function in mathematics* Signum, a part of the female Lepidoptera genitalia* Signum , a 1995 by German industrial music artist P·A·L* Signum Framework...
  
  - Atari
• SimpleText
  SimpleText
  SimpleText is the native text editor for the Classic Mac OS. SimpleText allows editing including text formatting , fonts, and sizes. It can be considered similar to Windows' WordPad application...
  
   - Apple System 7-9
• SpeedScript
  SpeedScript
  SpeedScript was a type-in word processor for various home computers. Approximately 5 KB in length, it provided many of the same features as commercial word processing packages of the early 8-bit era, such as Easy Script and Bank Street Writer....
  
   - For Commodore 64 computers
• Sprint
  Sprint (word processor)
  Sprint was a powerful and programmable text-based word processor for DOS, first published by Borland in 1987.__FORCETOC__- History :Sprint originally appeared as the "FinalWord" application, developed by Jason Linhart, Craig Finseth, Scott Layson Burson, Brian Hess, and Bill Spitzak at Mark of the...
  
  
• Taste
  Taste (software)
  Taste is a Macintosh word processor that combined a number of basic features from page layout software, just a "taste" of it, to build a unique solution to preparing documents. Taste was originally offered by DeltaPoint, the publishers of the famed MindWrite, but was eventually spun off to a 3rd...
  
  
• Tasword
  Tasword
  Tasword is a word processor for the ZX Spectrum developed by Tasman Software. The first version was released in 1982 and spawned two major revisions in addition to several add-ons and, later, tailored versions for the +2 and +3 Spectrum models, the SAM Coupé and the Amstrad CPC range...
  
  
• TJ-2
  TJ-2
  TJ-2 was published by Peter Samson in May 1963 and is thought to be the first page layout program. Although it lacks page numbering, page headers and footers, TJ-2 is the first word processor to provide a number of essential typographic alignment and automatic typesetting features:*Columnation,...
  
  
• VolksWriter
  VolksWriter
  Volkswriter was a 1980s-era word processor created and distributed by Lifetree Software, Inc.Volkswriter was first published in 1982, and was the first word processor for the IBM PC Lifetree published versions of the software until May, 1989 when due to profitability problems, the Volkswriter...
  
  
• WordMARC
  WordMARC
  WordMARC was a scientifically oriented word processor developed by MARC Software, an offshoot of MARC Analysis Research Corporation . It ran originally on minicomputers such as Prime and Digital Equipment Corporation VAX...
  
  
• WordStar
  WordStar
  WordStar is a word processor application, published by MicroPro International, originally written for the CP/M operating system but later ported to DOS, that enjoyed a dominant market share during the early to mid-1980s. Although Seymour I...
  
  
• WriteNow
  WriteNow
  WriteNow was one of the two original word processor applications developed for the launch of the Apple Macintosh in 1984, and was the primary word processor for computers manufactured by NeXT....
  
   - Mac
• QText
  Qtext
  QText was a famous and popular Hebrew-English word processing application for DOS in the late 80s and early 90s. It was developed by Dvir Software from kibbutz Dvir, Israel, and programmed in Turbo Pascal....
  
  
• XyWrite
  XyWrite
  XyWrite is a word processor for DOS and Windows modeled on the ATEX mainframe program. Popular with writers and editors for its speed and degree of customization, XyWrite was in its heyday the house word processor in many editorial offices, including the New York Times from 1989 to 1993...