a useful tool in the writer’s kit

As a writer of long form fiction and non-fiction I use different applications, depending on the project and its requirements. Having discovered iA Writer Pro I tried it and found it offered me a good, distraction-free on-screen environment to write in, to keep the Flow going. One of the challenges this app’s developer will face is the temptation to continually upgrade it with new features which, if the developer is not careful and resists the siren call of “more is better” will make it like other writing apps, and then—what’s the point? I mean, if I want a feature-laden app for research i will use Scrivener. For works requiring indexing and footnotes, I still rely on Word. iA Writer Pro has a specific place in the writer’s toolkit, as a small, elegant, fast application which can be used as it is now for multiple projects including html creation. So yeah, I do recommend it to all writers, it’s not expensive, it allows you to write distraction-free, and it is well-thought-out.

mjscox about iA Writer, v1.5.2