A Macintosh application for basic word processing, it is the Macintosh equivalent of Wordpad. Part of the Macintosh Operating system since System 7, it replaced Teachtext, used before System 7.

Features include fonts, sizes, basic formatting, and printing. It exports only to standard text format.

With the coming of Mac OS X, Simpletext will be replaced by TextEdit, which promises to include support for colors and PDF. Still no spell check.