Word Services is good for users as you can share a single speller, and a single dictionary among all your applications that use Word Services. You can have a single interface for spelling, and the you are not stuck with a built-in speller. If you don't like the speller your application came with, you can use another, or even add several, one for each language that you use. It's not just for spellchecking - it can be used for any operation on text that software publishers wish to provide.
It is good for developers because it saves you time, money, memory and disk space. Word Services is free - no license fee or nondisclosure agreement is required to use it. You can download the protocol specification from here (or read it as a Web page), and you can get the complete source code to Writeswell Jr., a simple Word Services word processor, and WSI NewsWatcher, a full-featured Word Services Usenet News client.
Developers: click here to find out more about how and why to Word Services to your applications, and to join the Word Services Consortium.
Word Services Client Applications for MacOS
Click here to find clients for BeOS
In some cases these applications are available for free or as free trial versions. Press the 
button to get the program. You can get instructions on using Word Services with these applications by pressing the 
button
Word Services is also used by some custom "in-house" applications by the University of Michigan and a Fortune 500 corporation.
Word Services Server Applications for MacOS
Click here to find servers for BeOS
| Application | Publisher | Description | Languages | Where to Get It |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spellswell Plus | Working Software, Inc. | Spellchecker | English | |
|
JChecker English Japanese |
Matsumoto & Co.,Ltd | Japanese, English |
JChecker is shareware. You may get either the Japanese version: for PowerPC for 680x0 for PowerPC for 680x0 |
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| LEXI | SoftLinc, Inc. | Spellchecker, thesaurus, translation and conjugation dictionary | English | Order Online |
| Grammarian | Casady & Greene, Inc. | Grammar Checker | English, Japanese | Download the demo version
here Order online from Cassady & Greene |
| Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary | Zane Publishing Inc. | Dictionary | English | Mail order catalog |
| Antidote | Druide informatique inc. | Grammar Checker | French | |
| Excalibur | Rick Zaccone and Robert Gottshall | LaTeX-Aware Spelling Checker | US and British English, Catalan, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Manx-Gaelic, Norwegian, Spanish | To get the supplemental dictionaries: |
| PRIMUSmac English Deutsch |
Fesh! | Spellchecker | English, French, German | Order online from Fesh! in English Deutsch |
| World Write | WorldSoft | Spellchecker | English, Czech, Polish and Russian | |
| MacKilavuz | Akif Eyler | Spellchecker | Turkish | This program needs a publisher |
| Mikhal | Panergy | Spellchecker | Hebrew | Ordering Info Panergy |
| Sans-Faute/Grammaire [française] [english] |
BCDL | Spelling and Grammar Checker | French | Dealer List |
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