“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
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Is iA Writer free?
iA Writer is not free (it costs 199.99), however it doesn't contain in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is iA Writer legit?
🤔 The iA Writer app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
The Best Writer app (review after 2 years of usage)
The best thing about iA writer is clean interface that let you write without any distractions. While using this app, I can focus more on writing as ideas flow more fluently the user interface is excellent.
The keyword is packed with powerful tools that is superior to other apps.
No Subscription another best thing i love about this app once you pay your good to go all features are unlocked unlike many others.
And it is always available on windows.
Thank you developers for this incredible app.
Add force sync button
Syncing is really bad. I dont understand when my mac syncs with the phone. Most of the time it doesnt. Can you please add a force sync button and show something like last synchronized date.
Dont be like apple that tries to do magic syncing but doesnt work.
Objective? Not really. Bothered by negligence? Absolutely.
They ask for reviews after every update. They expect us to rave, give feed back and be objective.
Years in development, but still no support for Arabic language. When will they support us? Probably never. It's a patter with this company.
The best Writer
Top notch. Always improving, upgrading, fixing issues.
I’ve used it since the beginning . . . nothing better!
This is a quick app that takes care of a lot of things for you and it even saves for you. I use it instead of word. I’ve even used it to write short stories.
IA writer
The iA writer is very useful, easy to use and my material is still there when I come back to read it. Thank you for a great writing program!
Excellent quality and Outstanding Support
I have been searching for a long time for an editor that works well with voiceover and voice control. Finding a simple text editor shouldn't be this hard. I have considered iA Writer several times over the years but the price discouraged me from tying it. I really wish I had taken a chance years ago when it was much cheaper. However, I don't regret the purchase at its current price point. I'm also impressed with how quickly I got answers from support before I made the purchase. There are several other apps that haven't responded to my requests at all. Even though this editor is designed for markdown, I have had no trouble using it for LaTeX and other plain text file types. Now I can go back to concentrating on my notes and not fighting with the core tools of iOS.
Bring the new editor this one is done
It started back there when they presented well designed, but half baked feature wiki links. That suffers from the absence of back and sections linking. It continues with the are annoying bug glitching editing behavior while typing on iPad with keyboard. I mean they’ve failed the critical bug in the main feature of the app. Then it was the revolutionary md hash markup whatever feature. Like are you kidding me?! A hash function as a major feature? And now they presented the shortcut that just throws a user into a god forbidden chatgpt web page, leaving them to copy paste and then markup whatever it would print out useful manually, rather than use their own so hyped hash markup appendix whatever feature to being integrated through, that, well, would be consistent and reasonable to do, like to minimize the volume of user’s redundant moves even a bit. But nope sir, it isn’t there. The more it goes the more I believe that the team is suffering from the lack of development skills (no offense), while having enough of such in both product design and branding. I dunno why, but whatever, I’m tired of this. Bring the new editor this one is done.
Very disappointed.
After years of using this app with no problems, it suddenly couldn’t find or open any file remote or local. Regret to say support was less than helpful, enough so that I’m giving up on what was a dependable tool I used every day. I’m really hoping Apple Notes has caught up.
UPDATE
their support folks did reach out mostly to see it was an iOS issue and asked more questions. I ended up fixing it myself by reopening files through my Mac which fixed the issue on the iOS side. Not clear if it was the app or iOS but I came up with the solution myself.