Simple Writer - for Your Daily Writing App Reviews

its free so its chill

All is going well. Download was seamless. Opened no problem. Made sure it would allow me to print, looked good. Spend 2+ hours typing a list with a lot of words, numbers and ‘tabs’ and I go to print, look at the print preview and I have a long narrow page. OK, I adjust page to US Letter format. Seems simple enough. Look at print preview and all looks good BUT, there is only one page when there should be 8-10 pages. The character count and word count at the bottom of the screen look accurate (1203 words and 9339 characters) but they are somewhere. I did press print hoping the whole document would print but as expected and suspected, only one page printed. Am I messing up somewhere?? I don’t use my Mac for typing lengthy documents, this is really the 1st time, and I wanted something simple that I could print to hard copy. Far from impressed right now. If anyone can help, please. Document is saved and it’s stlll one page but showing word and character count to be a lot more than a page

Ever heard of .adoc? That’s apparently the only format this thing saves to. In any of the six word processors I opened one of these files in, they opened the saved file with a formatting tail like this: the opinions of mankind{*shppict {pict jpegblipPageWidth pageWidth = 540.000000}} That’s what resulted when I saved text ending in: the opinions of mankind… So if you are fine with using this little app with its peculiar limitation, it otherwise seems to perform okay. For now, I’m sticking with Bean for my mini-word processor, even though it’s now an orphan; it saves in six formats.

The review by "XD Eleven" is inaccurate. The program saves in many formats including adoc, pdf, rtf, rtfd, doc, webarchive, xml, html, txt, odt, and docx. To get to these options you must click on the PDF icon in the top toolbar. A window comes up to name the saved item with a drop down menu listing the file formats listed above. If you click on the SAVE icon instead of the PDF icon, you get no options and the item is saved in the adoc format. Not exactly intuitive. I have been using the program for only about half an hour, so I can’t give a full review.

(Yosemite) This would be a great little writing app if everything worked as advertised! Unfortunately, many features, like columns, margins, text-wrap, etc. simply dont work. Like so many AppStore apps, the developer released it prematurely, with sloppy coding. Hopefully, the developer will correct these flaws and release a new version when everything works!

The layout looks good like a sheet of paper. This application can open documents that load in the finder. However, when you try to print anything a dialog pops up "Load the following paper into the rear tray.” Folllowed by a list of what to load. There is no provision to change this to the front tray or cassette. So choose Save as a PDF you end up getting the same dialog and you cannot save as a PDF. There are no preferences to be set. Consequently all you have is a platform to write on with out the ability to print or save as a PDF. All you can do is Copy and Paste our work into another application in order to print it. or save it as a PDF. Therefore, I grant this app. two stars which should give the author some incentive for improvements in the near future.

Works well for me. It’s basic, but has everything I need. This app is the best one I have tried/used yet.

Bean is fantastic; too bad it’s “orphaned”. Major problem here = flaw in program (my version, at least) that will not spread the pages out properly for printing on American-sized typing-paper. So, if everything you write is less than a page, you won’t have any problems. Otherwise, it treats long text like a single strem of very-long text. I guess this proves the adage “you get what you pay for.”