iA Writer Classic2.1.6

iA Writer seems cool, but some of the most important features that need to be clarified before I'll buy it is ... HOW DOES THIS PLAY WITH OTHER APPS? WHAT FORMAT DOES THIS SAVE IN? CAN I EXPORT IN HTML, RTF? I'm not willing to spend $18 to find out something that should be basic information on the app's page.

so app store apps can't copy apple apps but can copy one another? http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/42904/h|w-writer (it's waiting for patent on focus mode? didn't ia writer got there first?) http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40912/clean-writer-pro devs are going crazy with the apple store, not to mention a lot of bad looking game clones.

While an excellent software on the iPad, the mac version is quite useless and a big ripoff. Lack of features does not constitute a feature in itself, except in Kafka's literary works. The interface is smooth and pleasurable to handle, which is why I've not given it a half star rating, but that's it. I regularly have to write papers in French and was furious that this app does not even support simple accented characters like é or à which happen to come in several. It is also a pity that considering the price, there is no support for asian languages or other scripts, but at least the app warned us of this beforehand, unlike with most of its faults.

Where to even begin with this adventure into idiot-land. Purchasing this app was my first experience with app store or as others call it correctly the crap store. After what seemed like hours I finally got my app store account working correctly with my credit card and the validation email was finally sent to my email box. Without the validation email I wasn't allowed to login or make purchases yet. Any other email I recieve within seconds but this email from apple took over 30 minutes. On with the purchase. I purchased the app after giving up trying to navigate the app store manually and used the search box. Installed iA Writer. How did I like iA Writer? $9.99 for a minimalistic writing tool. I felt cheated after 5 minutes and demanded a refund from apple. My applications folder has installed stickies and textedit that offered more stabilty and real world features. iA Writer is as polished as a high school kid's weekend programming project. I wasn't impressed I was being used as a guinea pig for unfinished software that cost more money than it will ever be worth. Last year I donated to OmmWriter Dāna II and never felt cheated for the hard work and a truly unique minimalistic writing tool. iA Writer is junk. It is a first year high school project at best. For $9.99 it's a rip off when you can use free alternatives already installed or much better alternatives.

A friend purchased this software and I cannot stop laughing at him. The poor sod could have written something for free with RealBasic and paid nothing for something with better control and features. This app isn't even worth 99 cents!

iA Writer seems cool, but some of the most important features that need to be clarified before I'll buy it is ... HOW DOES THIS PLAY WITH OTHER APPS? WHAT FORMAT DOES THIS SAVE IN? CAN I EXPORT IN HTML, RTF? I'm not willing to spend $18 to find out something that should be basic information on the app's page.

On the Mac, IA Writer is both elegant and buggy. It appears to be a work in progress with great potential. I really like its focus mode. I do think that it is very unfortunate that the app does not offer a trial version. I also purchased it and now regret spending $18 for an app with bugs (the close window failed to work). But my biggest disappointment was the formatting procedures IA Writer uses to identify headings, levels, and emphasis. I was presuming (I guess with some naivete), that these would port onto a more complete WP without the need to remove them from the text document. This proves to be a serious and very annoying problem and limitation, because I now need to remove each formatting symbol one keystroke at a time when I paste the document into any other WP medium. So one of its most compelling features, becomes its biggest weakness. Overal, an app with potential, but in its present state woefully inadequate.

I am a big supporter of iA Writer on the iPad, and bought the Mac product. That was a (big) mistake at the price. On the Mac, with it's very different form factor, iA Writer simply does not shine. The Mac form factor, especially with a large screen, requires more flexibility. For example, I would like to sometimes view the text in a larger size (my eyes are getting old). I can't. Further, with a large screen, I would like to adjust the margin sizes, top, bottom and sides. I can't. But, on a MacBook Air iA Writer will no doubt shine pretty well. The smaller the screen the better. But I use 24-27" monitors, quite different animals. Frankly, Pages in full screen mode is pretty terrific. It provides all the flexibility (simple or sophisticated) I need, albeit without one or two nice features found in iA Writer. But the flexibility afforded by Pages makes it the winner on the Mac, not iA Writer. iA Writer seems a big waste. I use Pages, TextWrangler, and (rarely these days) Mellel. Word I ditched a long time ago - though I still own the latest MS-Office (also prefer Numbers to Excel, and Keynote to PowerPoint). I will stick with iA Writer on the iPad, and right-off the Mac version purchase as a bum investment. Sorry guys.