Text editors are much more helpful if you're editing code, creating web pages, doing text transformation or other things for which a word processor is just overkill. Text editors are an entirely different story. Word processors like Microsoft Word and Apple's own Pages software are just dandy if you want to write a college paper or fax a cover sheet, but their focus is on page layout and text formatting. The best free and paid text editor programs for Mac whether you're a web developer, programmer, technical writer, or anything in between!