
Celtx replaces ‘paper, pen & binder’ pre-production with a digital approach that’s more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.




Rubyroom is a full-screen text editor, created using Ruby on Rails that lets you concentrate on writing without any of the usual distractions of a computer environment.


Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. It was built for Mac OS X.


NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X.


Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application with some excellent page layout features and can be used as an alternative to Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign.




AbiWord is a word processor lighter and quicker than OpenOffice’s Writer. It’s compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format too.




Open Office is a similar office suite to Microsoft Office available on different platforms. It offers a complete range of applications to tackle all your office tasks: Writer, Calc, Base, Impress, Draw, Math, Quickstarter etc.



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