United States“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 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
Old faithful that’s gotten really, really good
I think I have been using iA Writer forever. Usually for anything longform. I often try other apps but when I need pen to paper, as it were, I come back to Writer. I’ve never used it as my primary notes app. But I just started about a week ago. While I wasn’t paying attention Writer got all the features you need to manage your notes. Links between notes, clickable tags, saved searches, and more. It’s great.
United StatesGreat app, small things
This app is great and allows me to focus on just the words without being distracted. There are a few oversights on a technical level, however. One I would like to point out is that if you are using a Mac to share your mouse and keyboard with an iPad, and you move your mouse off of a full screen IA writer to move the mouse to the iPad on the *left-hand side*, the sidebar for IAWriter stays opens the entire time and this is rather annoying.
United StatesGreat for blogging!
I use iA Writer for drafting my blog posts. The markdown support is easy and suitable for basic drafting and note-taking, and the editing/style checks are super helpful for clearer writing!
United StatesBest Markdown Appo
It just keeps getting better.
United StatesI can no longer put up with this
After years of putting up with it, I have finally decided to ditch this app. It works great for short texts, but once you have a larger text, it starts overlapping words and sentences, and you have to wait several seconds - up to twenty seconds - for it to recover and show all the words again. This has always plagued this app, and I had hoped to see it fixed in updates, but nope. I now have the most powerful Mac on the market, with massive memory, but that doesn't solve it ether. So I am shifting to an app that doesn’t have this fundamental flaw.
United States$50 For a regular Test Editor
There is nothing special about this app. It does what every other text editor does. Do not waste your money.
United StatesYou need to buy the app separately for iOS and macOS
I needed an editor for the iPad, and, yes, my fault I decided if I paid for the app on mac, it meant I could use it on all my devices. It was a mistake: you must pay separately for macOS and iPadOS. I am very disappointed that I spent $100 on a simple editor.
United States
# Wikilinks - Wikilinks make it easy to connect, browse, and rediscover your writing - A [[wikilink]] is a link from one text file to another - To make a wikilink, just type [[ and the name of the file you would like to link - Autocomplete suggests files from your Library - Open the linked file with ⌘-click, or ⌘⏎ - If the file doesn’t exist, it’ll be automatically created and ready to type # Navigation History - Navigation history keeps track of the files you recently opened using wikilinks, Library, or Quick Search - To go back and forward, hold ⌘ and swipe right or left anywhere in the document - Click the history buttons in the title bar - Or press ⌃⌘← and ⌃⌘→ # Hashtag Improvements - Hashtags can be now added anywhere in text - Autocomplete suggests hashtags as you type - Consistent styling for hashtags and other links - Show a hashtag in Quick Search with ⌘-click, or ⌘⏎ # Autolinks - All web links and email addresses are automatically detected - Open a link in browser or compose a new email with ⌘-click, or ⌘⏎ - Control how wikilinks, hashtags, and autolinks are exported in Markdown settings # Content Block Improvements - To add a content block, type / at the beginning of a line and the name of the file you would like to include - Autocomplete suggests files from your Library - A path to a file is no longer required. Filename-only content blocks automatically find the nearest matching file - Open a text content block with ⌘-click, or ⌘⏎ - If the content block file doesn’t exist, it’ll be automatically created and ready to type # Metadata - All-new metadata engine enables powerful new features - Provide variables to text content blocks, width and height attributes to image content blocks - Supports Markdown in metadata variables - Define global metadata in Markdown settings # Look and Feel - Completed tasks are faded and crossed-out - All-new highlight colors
Subscribe our newsletter and get useful information every week.
Publisher's Other Apps
Other Productivity Apps