“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
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Superb
Fazer1k143
This is excellent software and I'm delighted with the purchase! Since buying this app I have used it a lot. I started by learning Markdown, the basics of which took little time, and then I started learning HTML and CSS for formatting purposes, which has been a great experience. I couldn't get the RTF output to function well (at least, opened in Apple Pages) with much information lost but have found that copying "formatted text" from iA Writer then pasting into Apple Pages works well. I have also been able to create my own templates which should mean formatting is automatic and no longer takes time (or focus) away from the writing process. Placing the text in the middle of the screen (while composing text) to mimic a typewriter view is useful and users can also choose to highlight the current sentence or paragraph; excellent for keeping the focus on the words and sentences being typed. And the 'style' and 'syntax' checking features, on their own, is probably enough to justify using iA Writer for me.
Developer Response
Thank you very much for your detailed review. Here’s to many more years with Writer!
Brilliant
mentalelf59
I’ve been using iA for some time now, I slowly found myself migrating from other authoring programs like Libre and sometimes Goodnotes, until I realised iA was everything I needed, I love been able to have an idea on the street or coffee shop and make a quick note for an idea on my iPhone or iPad mini just so easily. And hey presto whichever device I pick up, two iPads an iPhone and my MacBook it’s there to look at. If there was an improvement it’s nothing serious and I don’t lose sleep, but I’d like access to a library of fonts that I can down load and either increase the number of fonts by two, or replace two existing fonts with two chosen from the library (online). But I always recommend iA to absolutely anyone, less is definately more and allows you to focus on writing not a myriad of choices.
Developer Response
Thank you for leaving a 5-star review! Happy Writing!
Surprising How Little Is Needed
RobertGCarr
This is a great package for generating lovely documents and fits with the way I've always structured documents (using headings properly etc). Found it particularly useful for templated documents such as letters.Way better than all the distractions most other writing products have, especially as you are focusssing on content, rather than the layout.Can't give it 5 stars as there are few aspects a little lacking:- Writing longer, structured documents isn't quite so simple. There are ways around it (creating sub documents etc), but they're tricky. There's a document structure preview in Windows, but not yet in Mac.- Embedding and editing tables is pretty poor, mainly due to the constraints of Markdown. This would benefit from some sort of modal UI to preview the table and edit the cell contents, or at least paste tables from other apps. This is currently the weakest aspect, preventing me using it for technical writing.- Images are not quite so tricky, once you realise they have to be in the same folder as your document.- Creating your own templates is hard. To use iA Writer to any advanced level and customise the appearance, you need a reasonable knowledge of HTML and CSS, but most of the provided styles are rather lovely anyway. The process of developing and testing your own templates is pretty tedious. This should be far simpler.Anyway, whilst I've been using this product a lot for letters and general writing, there are cases when other packages are more suitable.
Developer Response
Thank you for this very detailed review with interesting feedback, Robert!
iA about as good as writing gets
scoobsoriginal
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:-)
This update fixes a few small bugs. It includes all the great features in iA Writer 7.3:
# AI in Technicolor
Whether you proofread with Apple Intelligence, or paste from Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT, the generated text now bursts onto the page with a colorful gradient. It looks as artificial as its origins. Think of it as a game: you got help, now make it your own.
We also made it easy to tell different human contributors apart. They appear in subtle tones. And you can choose a preferred color for saved authors in settings.
Reference material stays dimmed. Use this to see the changes you made to a downloaded contract, to track the progress since your first draft, or when you’re not sure how a text was created.
Version 7.3.4
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 .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Voice Control
Dark Interface
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Provider
Information Architects AG
Size
16.4 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
Languages
English and 10 more
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese