Mellel

Mellel is my favorite app to create documents on my iPad—simple powerful and convenient. My one complaint is that the document page does not seem to support folders so document organization is extremely handicapped.

just create a folder in Files app and drag to Mellel folder

The idea of having Mellel on my iPad, portable…powerful I really like. There’s a few things I think it really needs to be a better mobile writing experience (and if they exist already please let me know). 1. Ability to set keyboard shortcuts for different auto-titles, and a custom font (like body with red text), bullet, and outlines. This constant task of having to tap insert and reselect the number slows me down incredibly. 2. The mac keyboard shortcuts do not work properly to navigate lines. The very important cmd+ left arrow, or cmd+ right arrow should navigate on the current line and they do not. They jump to the top of the document, but not even the actual top (which is the purpose of cmd+ up arrow/down arrow which work as expected). 3. Proper folder support in the Documents view - no idea why there are no folders, but I just have a bunch of documents in an unorganized group. Even if I have my documents in folders they just all show in place. 4. Ability to open Mellel files as a pdf on iPhone from iCloud, or a Mellel Viewer app for iPhone… I don’t always have my iPad or computer with me so this is really essential as well. 5. Click+shift to highlight a section of test does not work as well as click and drag to highlight text. (Apple magic keyboard). If these could be fixed it would make the writing experience so much better, thanks!

I love this app! Wonderful for right to left languages. Works great for English also.

Mellel doesn’t even have autocorrect! How useless is that? I’ve tried it several times and fail to see any advantages over other note-taking apps such as Apple Notes, for example. Or Microsoft Word or Apple Pages (these are excellent). Many others are way more capable than this overly-simplified one.

Update 7 (2/2020): Siri dictation still doesn’t work right. Update 6 (2/2020): Siri dictation still (and still) doesn’t work right. Update 5 (6/2019): Siri dictation still doesn’t work right. Update 4 (11/2018): Siri dictation still doesn’t work right. This is the only word processor I have that doesn’t work. Update 3: Siri dictation still doesn’t work right. Update2: Siri still doesn’t work right. Update: Still useless if you rely on Siri to input text. After using it today, it’s beginning to crash quite often and does not retain what is inputted. Going downhill fast! When using Siri for dictation, Mellel does not work. The complete sentence shows up after you read it, but then is cut by up to 75% when "Done" is pressed.

I WANT to like this app, because I love the desktop version of Mellel. But it’s just not “there” yet as an app in and of itself. It feels more like an early iPad app, a companion to the “real” application than an actual tool.

I use the Mac version for documents with many 'chapters' and sub-heading with a table of contents. I love it. And Mellel for IPad means that I can take my Documents with me and work on them away from home. There are two things I would like to see for this app. 1. To be able to organize several documents into one notebook or file. 2. To be able to use the system emojis in a document as well as change font colors within a document.

This is the companion iOS app to Mellel word processor, which is a unique and fine piece of software. Mellel on iOS is very good for writing and editing, especially long form writing. It is also so buggy that currently it’s use is limited. Prime example is iCloud Drive—you never know if the app is going to read the drive’s contents, and it usually does not, and fixing that is pretty much rolling the dice via reboots. Since this currently does one thing that I don’t need right now, I’ve stopped using it. Whenever the iCloud integration works, I’ll start using it again.

This app is not finished. It's terribly buggy. For example, if you do "list" as the first thing that you do, you can't delete the "bullet" or "number" of the list. It's stuck on the first line. No way of deleting it. Undo won't work once you close the document. It's very difficult to select and drag to highlight a clause or sentence. You cannot change the styles. If you want to create your own styles, forget it. You're stuck with the styles they give you when you get the app. I've used it for five minutes and it's awful. Please update and fix these problems.