“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
This writing app is designed to let you type without distraction. Key features we’ve come to depend on include the customisable keyboard, iCloud sync and its streamlined interface for easy document preview and access.
Best writing app
Dangdhfgh
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!
FlikTeoh
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.
Great app, great potential, sadly no RTL
Yousif Al-Raheem
I started using this app since I need to write articles that will eventually be published in Markdown. It’s powerful but it lacks support for RTL languages. It does show Arabic content correctly, but it’s not RTL. Which makes the process of writing articles an Arabic such a hassle. Please enable this feature, I don’t think it’s difficult from a technical perspective. Apple’s Notes app has it.
Developer Response
Thanks for letting us know you'd like to see this in iA Writer.
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:
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Supported Features
VoiceOver
Voice Control
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Provider
Information Architects AG
Size
63.4 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Languages
English and 10 more
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese