While Bean is not designed to compete with programs like LibreOffice Writer, Writer, or Microsoft Word, its feature set is complete enough to cover the needs of many users. It is especially suitable for note taking or writing short articles because the program is highly responsive and starts almost instantly, while full-featured office suites take a much longer time to load. The design of Bean was heavily influenced by Marten Van De Kraats' article "Lean Word Processor Specifics". Also, I'll try to continue technical support at the usual email address." Since this announcement, Hoover has provided further updates and fixes for Bean, reaching version number 3.4.7 by October 2022. It may even be updated as necessary to keep the app running on future versions of OS X. Bean will remain available for download at the website. The name Bean is a play on Cocoa and Java, two popular programming frameworks.Īfter the release of Bean 3.2.2 in November 2012, Hoover announced that "active development of Bean will cease.
Many of Bean's operations are carried out by the underlying Cocoa framework of Mac OS X.
According to its author, James Hoover, Bean is not meant to replace Microsoft Word, but to be a lean word processor that is beautiful and user friendly.
However, the Bean executable is still distributed free of charge. Originally free and open source software Bean became closed source at version 3.
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