WordPad Alternatives for Mac OS X

Vim is an open source advanced text editor.

LibreOffice - Writer is an opensource text editor software.

Microsoft Office Word is part of Microsoft Office suite for editing rich text files.

Apache OpenOffice Writer is open source document editor.

Scrivener is a word-processing program and outliner designed for authors. Scrivener provides a management system for documents, notes and metadata.

FocusWriter is a simple, distraction-free writing environment.

TextEdit is a simple, open source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXTs NeXTSTEP and OpenStep.

Dictanote is a fast accurate dictation service.