Reviews of Atlantis Word Processor

1. 
   pjafrombbay

   Reviewing 1.6.5.5 (Mar 28, 2011)

   Reviewing Version 1.6.5.5 - This is still one of the best word processors available. Tables would be nice and are apparently on the way.
   
   Regards,
   Peter
2. 
   pjafrombbay

   Reviewing 1.6.5.3 Beta a0 (Oct 14, 2010)

   Over a year since my last review. This is still a very good piece of software. It would be nice to have tables and to be able to wrap text around an image. Both are supposed to be coming but should be there now.
   
   Compared to "Office Suites" this is lean and mean and just does the job.
   
   I highly recommend Atlantis.
3. 
   bobad

   Reviewing 1.6.5.0 Beta 3 (Dec 30, 2009)

   Great! Very light, and just the features you need for an every day word processor. Has 95% of the features of WinWord with 5% of the bulk. I especially like the way it uses WordWeb thesaurus, and has an inline spell checker. Try it, you won't be disappointed!
4. 
   bnsquash

   Reviewing 1.6.4.3 Beta (Oct 31, 2009)

   Great program. Love the recently added ability to create epub files for ebook readers. Much easier to use Atlantis for this than, say, Sigil or BookDesigner if you have a lot of formatting changes to make, what with Atlantis's excellent Styles implementation. This assumes you can get your source into Atlantis, which you usually can if you get creative. Output files work great on Sony and Hanlin ereaders (the only devices I have available). A friend of mine says they also look good on his iPod Touch using the Stanza reader program.
   
   It's good to see a word processor actually developing new features to keep up with modern trends such as the rising popularity of ebooks, rather than just relying on poorly-written third-party plugins to do the job for them. Seems like a lot of word processors these days seems to be primarily interested in reshuffling their user interface.
5. 
   netean

   Reviewing 1.6.4.3 Beta (Oct 30, 2009)

   Having looked at the mess of a UI (from the screenshot) I wasn't overly hopeful - seriously how to make a program look confusing - stick 1000 icons all over it.
   
   I installed it nonetheless.. erm, it was... well it was ok. Not terrible, but not that good either. OK I didnt' test it thoroughly, but to be honest that was because it's so damn fugly - it's really horrible to use. I found use it, even in basic form, just.. lacking.. somehow.
   
   If it was free, I'd say, ok, maybe it'd be worth hanging on to. But There are some pretty good freeware word processors already: Abiword, Openoffice (if you can stand the huge download) Heck, even wordpad is ok when there's nothing else.
   
   Openoffice, is significantly better than this, Abiword is too, and Abiword is also a lot lot easier to use also. Openoffice & Abiword are portable, so I really can't find a reason why I'd ever use this. It's not good, it's not free and there are cheaper and better alternatives out there.
   
   Sorry, to dis this, clearly there's a lot of work gone into it - but when there are good freeware apps out there shareware apps need to up their game and be significantly better. This, sadly, just isn't

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