On top of that, TextEdit can save documents to Apple’s iCloud, so if you have a desktop Mac and a laptop, you can work on your documents at home and know they’ll still be at hand when you’re on the road. It takes a half-second to launch, and it doesn’t lag even if you have a document containing hundreds of pages. It doesn’t offer advanced page layout features such as columns and image wrap, but it does provide most of the fundamentals. Simplicity comes with benefits, too. This text app comes as part of OS X, and can meet many of your writing needs.