iA Writer App Reviews

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Simply the Best

I’ve been using it almost since it came out v1. It’s great, it stays out of your way, the new features are helpful, and you should use it.

No complaints.

No complaints -- perfectly immersive writing tool with brilliant, well-schemed features.

What is “writing”?

The more I see all these apps being released that talk about “distraction free writing” the more I realize I don’t know what kind of writing they’re talking about. Why on earth would I want to clutter up my creative writing with hashtags and asterisks? How is that remotely helpful? Oh and I love how the screenshot used in this product listing to illustrate “Maximum Focus” shows a few paragraphs litered with markup symbols and text in a multiitude of colors. Really? That’s distraction free? Or is this app so forward thinking that for the first time in human history it’s been decided that a paragraph of text should be presented in a rainbow of colors, with a few hastags and asterisks thrown in. These markdown apps need to stop pretending to be serene, utoppian “distraction free” apps. They’re technical tools for bloggers or those writing for what, Medium or something? CSS? I don’t know —all I know is this is absolutely not geared for creative writing. You know what gets in the way of writing? Contrived paradigms, abstract formatting “tools” and a pricetag that feels about three times what it should be.

It crashes

I love writing with this app on my Phone or Ipad, but when it comes to opening it on my Laptop its more of a hassel then a help. It keeps on crashing and wont open at all. anyone else having this problem? please help if anyone has any Ideas.

I really want to like this app

I now have 2 versions on my mac and I have one new version on my iPhone. I can’t seem to import my old docs into the new iA Writer on my mac, also the new docs I created on the iphone do not show up on my mac fully (some of the text does). UPDATE: Had to restart the mac to get the sync to work… Had some crash when both iphone and mac apps are open on the same doc. They might as well make this app $10 a year subscription right away because you know they’ll just keep coming out with new paid versions and deleting the old ones and break my flow again.

Fantastic

Its simple, easy to use, and elegant. Frequent updates are super appreciated. Love this app!

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