◉ "New Apps We Love" - Apple
◉ "A solid new alternative to text editors like iA Writer and 1Writer" - Federico Viticci
◉ "I like the program very much" - Michael D. Shear
◉ "Best New App for iPad and iPhone" - imore.com
◉ "The original distraction-free writing app" - idownloadblog.com
◉ "WriteRoom for iOS lives on as Writemator" - Jesse Grosjean, founder of Hog Bay Software
Writemator is based on the source code of WriteRoom app for iOS & iPadOS with all bug fixes and new features.
FEATURES:
• Based on WriteRoom source code for iOS & iPadOS. Fast handling of large documents.
• Updated for the latest iOS and iPadOS with all bug fixes and new features.
• Built-in Files App Support.
• Support Multiple Window feature for iPadOS.
• Drag and Drop Support (for items like plain text, xml, html, URLs, etc.) of iPadOS (in Split View).
• Touch ID/ Passcode/ Face ID support.
• Search tool that lets you search for and find every document that contains your search text.
• TypeWriter Mode.
• Live Word Counter.
• Customizable System Dark Mode.
• Reading Time option available.
• Lined Paper option available.
• Dropbox Sync API V2. Support both "Sync Automatically" and "Manual Sync".
• Writemator allows you to choose the folder with which you link in your Dropbox account.
• Keyboard Shortcuts. Toal 58 keyboard shortcuts are available (excluding iPadOS system keyboard shortcuts).
• Quick Search & Replace text feature available. Works great even for a document with more than 500,000 words.
• Synonyms, Antonyms, Rhyming words for a selected word.
• Drag-to-scroll scroll bar for quick navigation bigger documents. Just like desktop app scrolling.
• In full-screen view, tap margins to move cursor toward margin (iPad only).
• Many new fonts are added like iA Writer Duospace, IBM Plex, SF UI Text, etc. More than 150 fonts are available.
• Extended keyboard row with customizable keys.
• Dark Mode keyboard.
• Support TextExpander Touch Expansion. Updated to the latest SDKs of TETouch.
• Document Picker Support. Support "Import" and "Export" methods of document picker.
• Access Writemator files in iOS Files app.
• Extra app icons available to change the app icon.
• Customize your text and background color to any color, line spacing, font size to make your own writing room.
• Line spacing is improved from the older version of WriteRoom. Margin option is available.
• Siri Shortcuts.
• Tint color option.
• Sort the folder list by name or date, descending.
• Hide or unhide status bar. Dark mode status bar for dark background
• Scroll headings during typing to hide headings.
• Rename your document or folder.
• Swipe to delete a document or a folder.
• Detect links in a document.
• Support text right to left (useful for writers for languages like in Arabic)
• Powerful URLs scheme support
• Export and share file in PDF format.
• Hide or show file extensions ;html, css, plain text, ft, etc.
Really? Can’t Use Enter/Return Key?
I paid for this app to find that, oddly enough, you can’t hit return/enter to start a new line or paragraph. You have to hit shift+enter. I’ve been typing forever and using a ton of different apps and software over the years, and this is the first time I’ve ever seen something like that. It slows down my typing speed TREMENDOUSLY and actually makes the app horrible to use. I wish I could get my money back!
United StatesUseless
Read the reviews first! as a longtime user of Writeroom on the Mac OS, I was pretty excited to start using this app. Paid $3, downloaded, and saw that it accessed my iCloud Drive seamlessly.. only to discover that the app crashes when trying to open a document. Please either refund my $2.99, or correct the issue. I’m using iOS 15.3.1.
United StatesDude!
I have been patiently waiting for about five? Years for amit to update this... I am very excited to try the new xcode rewrite. The old inherited code was very buggy and jesse had to abandon it but no shame there it happens! This is super duper and ill try and remember to come back and update my impressions.. (I was an original write room user in like 2009..) so.. :). Much respect to you Amit, this rocks!
United StatesCrashes immediacy on Sync Now
Purchased the app to replace Writeroom. Linked to Dropbox, authorized. Hit “Sync Now” and the app crashes. Opened again, Settings > Dropbox > Sync Now. Crash. Seems unstable.
United StatesHorrible, lost the text I was editing
Only reason I was using the app was to edit longer texts that I could later paste as plain text in other apps. In the middle of changing through applications, this app simply lost my text. Certainly it was a problem the came up when it tried to sync with a server, but still unforgivable. Lost all the work that I was painfully editing on a phone. Not worth the risk. I’ll even ask for a refund, a first time for me.
United StatesSync and user experience issues
1. Dropbox sync no longer works reliably. The app sometimes syncs, sometimes not. It can require using the “Sync All Now” menu item, which I don’t recall ever needing to use with the original WriteRoom. It just worked. 2. The use of the native Files UI is a jarring user experience and redundant with respect to WriteRoom’s original, uncluttered file listing. I would rather turn it off or hide it entirely, but this doesn’t seem to be an option.
United StatesWas great, now having issues saving/syncing
So, the developer asked me to update the app (which I did) and then update my review. Here is the update: the app is still losing my work. I saw my file with content in it (the thumbnail showed text in it and the file size was 157kb) on my iCloud when I opened Writemator, but when I opened the file in Writemator, it was blank and when I backed out to check the file in the iCloud window again, I watched it zero-out the file size and the thumbnail went blank, too. I have most of this file in another app thankfully, and your results may vary, but I'm going to have to move on to another app, sadly. I miss when this app only supported Dropbox. It was simple but worked perfectly, in my experience, 100% of the time. I really loved this app. My previous review: I haven't used this app since about August of last year when I used it to finish the first draft of my last novel. I am ready to get writing again, so I open Writemator and find that it's all about access files through the Files UI. OK, fine, but I can't get my work to sync to my OneDrive from either my iPad or my iPhone. I had started an outline on my iPad and wanted to continue it on my iPhone a day later only to discover no file had saved from my iPad--and it still hasn't. I've even used the "Export to Cloud Storage" option in the pulldown but it didn't appear to do anything. I ended up having to copy the content I'd go on to write on my iPhone and paste it in Writemator on my iPad using Continuity (I think that's what it's called when you share the clipboard automatically with another Apple device with the same AppleID on it). I appreciate the ability to pull from more cloud services, but it doesn't seem to work! Going to have to stop using Writemator until there is an update that fixes this issue.
United States
This update fixes a few bugs and made few enhancements. Please leave a nice review (or spread the word) if you like Writemator. It really helps! If you have any questions/ issues/suggestions then please contact me via email ([email protected]) or on twitter (@writemator) Have a wonderful time ahead!
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