iA Writer 4+
Laser-focused writing
Information Architects AG
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- £49.99
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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 7.1.4
This update fixes a few small bugs. It includes all the great features in iA Writer 7.1:
- Major upgrade for iA Writer’s integration with Shortcuts
- 18 new actions to open, create, edit, and organize files
- This feature requires iPadOS 16.1, or iOS 16.1
- We’ve prepared a few practical shortcuts to show what’s possible, and to inspire you to create your own
# Open
- Open New: Opens a new note, ready to be saved to your Inbox folder as soon as you type.
- Add Diary Entry: Adds an entry to your Diary folder with the current date and time.
- Take Meeting Notes: Creates meeting notes document for your upcoming calendar event.
- Open Clipboard: Opens a new file with clipboard contents converted to Markdown.
# Save
- Dictate Text: Saves dictated text to your Inbox folder.
- Dictate To-Do: Saves dictated text to your To-Do file.
- Read Later: Saves a web article to your Read Later folder.
- Shazam: Shazam a song and save it to your Inbox folder.
# Current File
- Listen: Turns current file into audio.
- Copy Link: Copies a link that can be used to open current file from other apps.
- Translate: Translates a copy of the current file.
# Edit with ChatGPT
- Writing Assistant: Use ChatGPT as a conversation partner to improve your text.
- Proofread: Proofreads a copy of the current document.
- Shorten: Shortens a copy of the current document.
- Change Tone: Changes tone of a copy of the current document.
# Organize
- Duplicate Template: Duplicates a template file or folder and adds it to favorites.
- Search: Opens Quick Search with the provided query.
# Other Improvements
- Added top author percentage to stats
- Adjusted insert date actions to use system language
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Choice
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.
Hands Down, Best note, markdown, and personal app available
It suits my workflow of building ideas and thoughts over time, with none of the immediate burden of being forced to classify everything you do. It can connect to any storage, it can export to many media web formats, it’s perfect for mark down, it can cope with more notes than Apple Notes can, has a preview mode, and one of the best word highlighting tools I’ve ever come across to support my writing tone. The hash-tagging of notes as a way of noting themes is especially useful in bringing together scraps here and there, just tag it after. Can be as simple or as complex as you like. If you use take notes for projects or for assignments or for building text over time or Markdown often, this is the one you should get.
Honestly, I’ve been using this for years. And I’ve tried many others similar products, but they just want to tell you how to use it their way. iA Writer doesn’t presume to know what you, as an individual want, it just gives you the tools as you see fit to use them. It’s really refreshing, and unfortunately seldom seen in this app market.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your continued support of iA Writer! 🥰
Everything beautifully considered
ia Writer has been through a long-term process of refinement and improvement, and it shows. This and the macOS application work really well together and have a pretty solid equivalence in the range of features, from typography and appearance to document management. I’ve finally settled on this (as opposed to a number of other Markdown/text editors I’ve looked at) as my main writing tool.
One of the reasons this works so well is that you can send documents to ia Writer, edit them, and have them synced back to the source applications (whether Files, DTTG, Working Copy, or any one of a whole set of storage providing applications on iOS). You’re not forced to keep things within it’s own silo, like most other editors seem to want you to - though it does provide a storage space in iCloud that syncs with the macOS version, when you need it.
It’s good looking, well-integrated, minimal when it needs to be yet comprehensive and feature-packed when you need it to be. You can tell this application has a solid heritage and is the best distraction-free, plain text editors in the App Store. Highly recommended!
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
- 48.8 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
- £49.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.