iA Writer 4+
Laser-focused writing
Information Architects AG
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- RM229.90
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Description
“Leaving life’s mess for an ideal realm of words.” —The New Yorker
“My favorite iOS app for writing in Markdown, without question, is iA Writer. 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.
# Customize
When you tap and hold a key in the command keyboard, you’re given the chance to choose your own layout. Rearrange your keys, or pick new ones from the extensive list.
# Search
You can open documents and launch frequent actions in no time with the new Quick Search. It lives in the keyboard so it’s always close at hand.
# 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 7.2.6
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
- Tap 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 folder button 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
Editors’ Notes
When we want to hunker down and type without distraction, one of our favourite resources is iA Writer. Substantially updated since its initial release, this writing app offers a customisable keyboard, selective text highlighting, iCloud sync and many other features we’ve come to depend on. Plus, a streamlined interface lets you simply swipe left to preview a document and swipe right to access your library. The entire experience is designed to be quick and easy so you can focus on your work.
Best writing app
This is the far best writing app I’ve ever used. And they keep updating their app to maintain their high quality app.
Thanks. I really enjoy using your app!
Developer Response ,
🫶 We love to hear it! Thanks for your continued support. ☺️
Selecting text is such a pain!
It’s only my second day using this app, I’m already getting so much stress from it.
Firstly, it was kind of disappointing on how the file access works. The Dropbox support was not convenient.
Basically you’re forced to use iCloud to save your files and export it Dropbox if needed.
The Direct access to Dropbox isn’t conveniently available at all. (Sorry I even find it hard to describe the usage behavior)
As most people would expect to just link your Dropbox and open up files directly for writing or editing.
I would hope for improvement on working with Dropbox files instead. Or at least to have options for using either iCloud or Dropbox.
Secondly, for text selection; whether is it using the shortcut command or direct selection, the screen just keep scrolling up and down too quickly when you try to select any sentences.
There’s no way for you to select precisely what you need. So the feature is basically just there for decorative purpose.
While I’m not sure for the choice of MultiMarkdown, but having just too many things to change from our workflow just to use this app doesn’t make it any better for end users.
Is YAML and GFM support possible?
Developer Response ,
On Dropbox: they discontinued their API and so we switched to using the native iOS Files API. Dropbox pledged their support for this but don't yet offer the ability to share full folders. Once they do, you'll be able to add them right beside the iCloud location. It already works perfectly with other apps like the wonderful Working Copy—we're just waiting on Dropbox to finish their end of the bargain.
On text selection: we're not able to replicate to this ourselves. If you could send us steps detailing in what context this issue occurs we would love to fix it. (support@ia.net)
We opted for MultiMarkdown because it offered improvements over standard Markdown, such as tables and footnotes. These days, there are more options on the table and things could change if there is a good argument for it.
YAML is partially supported by MultiMarkdown, at least in terms of the initial metadata format at the top of a file. GFM is mostly cross-compatible too—just some edge cases with very specific table formatting.
App Privacy
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:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Information Architects AG
- Size
- 60.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2010–2024 Information Architects GmbH
- Price
- RM229.90
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.