iA Writer 4+

Laser-focused writing

Information Architects AG

    • 4.8 • 312 Ratings
    • £49.99

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Description

“Leaving life’s mess for an ideal realm of words.” —The New Yorker

“iA Writer is just beautiful. To me, it’s the gold standard for Markdown syntax styling... an elegant champagne flute. That’s iA Writer for me.” —John Gruber

“iA Writer creates a clean, simple and distraction-free writing environment for when you really need to focus on your words.” —The New York Times

“iA Writer is an example of how powerful simplicity and accessibility can be.” —The Guardian

“iA Writer is all about textual production—writing this phrase, this sentence, this word at this moment.” —WIRED

4 x Best of App Store Winner

# The Simple Writing App
iA Writer removes distractions. Giving you a calm, focused, writing space, so you can express yourself clearly.

# Focus
Focus Mode dims everything but the current sentence or paragraph, helping you stay in the flow.

# Start
Don’t worry about the format. First, write in plain text. Then preview in HTML.

# Organize
Search, sort, and quickly swap between documents from different clouds without leaving the window.

# Work
iA Writer includes an inverted light-on-dark-mode, perfect for working day and night.

# Clean
Spot superfluous adjectives, weak verbs, repetitive nouns, false conjunctions and clean your text of the usual rumble.

# Shape
Customize your templates and export to WordPress or Medium, HTML, Microsoft Word (.docx), or PDF.

# 100% Text
Embed links, pictures, tables and text files in plain text and see them in preview.

# Get in Touch
- Visit ia.net/writer for more information
- Visit ia.net/writer/support for support and feedback
- Let us know what you think on Twitter @iAWriter

What’s New

Version 7.2.4

This update fixes a few small bugs. It includes all the great features in iA Writer 7.2:

# Library Improvements
- New tree navigation makes it easier to organize your work
- Click a folder to expand its contents without leaving your current location
- Use contextual menu to create files and folders in expanded subfolders
- Use contextual menu to open a folder (just like before)
- Drag and drop to move files
- Added new file and folder buttons to toolbar
- You can choose between tree and list navigation in settings

# Style Check Improvements
- Now supports Spanish
- Major upgrade to French

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
312 Ratings

312 Ratings

scoobsoriginal ,

iA about as good as writing gets

I've been using the iOS version for a while and it's also really good. I love the text colouring (like in coding) and it makes the obvious mistakes really stand out. I'm enjoying the added functionallity of the MacOS version and the iCloud syncing makes working across platorfms really easy.
Side by side markdown/preview is incredibly useful.
I bought iA Writer in an attempt to improve my writing skills and produce content for web sites.
Squarespaces' rendering of some of the Markdown can be a bit disapointing compared with the preview version but that's to be expected. The iA Writer website guides to improving your writing were also really useuful, so it looks like the company takes what they do really seriously. Good to see and looking forward to a long relationship with iA.

Developer Response ,

We're looking forward to this as well! We're never too far away should you need us. Besides the support pages you mentioned, you can always reach us at support@ia.net. Thanks for taking time to share your experience:-)

Rizzz91 ,

Really helps me with my dyslexia.

As a dyslexic, I've always struggled writing in every sense of the term. I've struggled with writing messages, assignments to blog posts. I have heard good things about IA Writer so I decided to give the trail a spin to see if this app could motivate me to write. I can happily say IA Writer is an absolute saviour to me.

Because of my dyslexia, I usually end up missing words and muddling my sentence structure. With IA Writer I've found myself missing no words or phrases, thanks to the fantastic Syntax Highlight tool which offers a simple visualisation of sentence structure, this means I now can proactively catch missing words and muddled sentences.

Writing has been an absolute joy during the trial period, and I just had to purchase this app because I find it so useful. I would highly recommend this tool to anyone who struggles with writing.

On a sidenote, I also love that IA Writer uses Markdown. I work as a digital designer, and IA Writer fits perfectly into my workflow as it allows me to write copy for systems like Jekyll without having to restructure anything.

The only thing I would like IA Writer to add is a "preview" button in the touchbar. I can't configure that at the moment and it would be nice to have.

Developer Response ,

Hi Rizz, we are happy that you enjoy iA Writer. Thanks for the tip about adding a preview button in the touchbar.. We'll pass it on to the developers.

Curlypaws ,

Fast and functional

I've used IA Writer since its early days, with some periods where I've relied on its main competitor (Ulysses). What brought me back to IA Writer were the templates (which allow inclusion of a company logo in the header, for instance) and the lack of a subscription model.

You might expect lack of subscriptions means a slow developing piece of software, but on the contrary the Style Check and improved speed in the latest release show a real commitment to adding useful functionality.

IA Writer is a very polished editor, with excellent Markdown support and a lot of flexibility. It doesn't lock in your files and has a very flexible template system. It looks good, runs across iOS and Mac and I've found it to be stable and reliable. I highly recommend it.

Developer Response ,

To start, we're happy to have you back on iA Writer! We could hardly wait to share these latest updates and we're pleased with the response so far. Thank you for taking the time to share your journey and for your recommendation of our app. Enjoy those updates :-)

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The developer, Information Architects AG, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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