I am a big fan of SoftMaker Office Professional 2021 on my iMacs. Simply put, TextMaker is an excellent word processor. Ditto for their iOS version. It makes going from working on your iMac or macBook to your iPad pretty seamless. The free iOS version of TextMaker is fine if you don’t need to print or convert documents to PDF. And even then, you can create a document in TextMaker on your iPad and pass it to your iMac or MacBook and print it that way. For me, the annual fee is a fair price for the convenience of printing without extra steps. What can I say? Every software developer and their Aunt Mable wants a steady cash flow, hence subscription software abounds. I’m hoping the fine folks at SoftMaker will eventually offer a “buy it once and own it” iOS option in the future. Either way, the bottom line is this: if you want MS Word on your iPad or iPhone without buying into the whole Microsoft Office 365 environment, look no further. And yes, I wrote and spellchecked this on TextMaker on my iPad. Duh. :) Hope my comments are helpful.

I used SoftMaker’s FreeOffice products on my Windows PC’s for years before my organization required me to install Microsoft 365 products on them. With my 365 license I also installed Microsoft products on my iPad Pro as well which I sometimes use as a backup laptop. In recent months 365 products have been come unusably buggy and glitchy, so I downloaded SoftMaker’s products to try. They work wonderfully! Exact same experience as on Windows. Very user friendly, detailed instructions on how to use, clean interface, very snappy and responsive. Bottom line they just WORK when I need them to, every time! (Unlike 365, which is pathetic given SoftMaker’s budget vs. Microsoft’s budget.) Definitely recommend!

Strange bug thats a little bit amusing I don’t know if anyone else has been having this problem. I’m running a iPad ninth generation. For some reason, it randomly calls up the Text to Speech feature of iOS and starts speaking gibberish. It joins words together in the text randomly. Kind of sounds like a baby learning to speak for the first time.. Or somebody that’s had one too many beers…Think it might have something to do with the accessibility options. I’ve got the accessibility options to speak words as I type.

Thanks to Softmaker for their response. I was able to find in the app a way to make TextMaker a nice, menu-driven application resembling their excellent desktop version. My whines now are limited to these:-- There's peculiar behavior among embedded links, where a link is not just the linked text but all the text to the end of the paragraph when the document is opened in any other word processor.-- The app behaves unexpectedly when minimized, keeping the document but closing it and opening to a blank screen when maximized again. Strange, irritating, but seemingly nondestructive.-- The app behaves unpredictably when saving an edited document, sometimes simply saving it as expected but sometimes invoking the whole "save as" dialogue instead. Wishlist item: it would be nice if there were keystroke combinations to perform common functions, especially when a hardware keyboard is used, though I understand that this might be difficult or impossible.Another wishlist item: it would be nice to be able to just buy the thing. I'd happily pay even a fairly high purchase price, but I recoil at software rental.