TextEdit

TextEdit

Screenshot of TextEdit 1.19
Developer(s)	Apple Inc.
Initial release	July 1996; 28 years ago (1996-07) with the release of OPENSTEP 4.0[1]
Stable release	1.18  / 24 October 2022; 2 years ago (24 October 2022)
Operating system	Originally released for NeXTSTEP, released for macOS after Apple's purchase of NeXT; Ported to all GNUstep systems (up to 1.6)
Type	Text editor, word processor
License	BSD-3-Clause
Website	developer.apple.com/library/mac/samplecode/TextEdit

TextEdit is an open-source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. It is now distributed with macOS since Apple Inc.'s acquisition of NeXT, and available as a GNUstep application for other Unix-like operating systems such as Linux.^[2] It is powered by Apple Advanced Typography.