iA Writer

iA Writer (was iA Writer Pro) is a professional writing suite that gives you full control over your notes, drafts and edits.

• Workflow: Note - Write - Edit - Read. Each stage has a task-specific typeface and color.
• Syntax Control scans the syntax of English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish text and highlights your adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions or conjunctions.
• Precision Writing Tools:
• Auto Markdown formats text on-screen -- your hands stay on the keyboard
• Syntax Control introduces syntactic markup for natural language text. It covers English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Patent pending.
• Convert Markdown to Microsoft Word 2007 .docx, and back again

Features

• Workflow states
• Custom typefaces, carefully set for optimal readability
• In-app preview
• Reading time, plus sentence, word, and character count
• Real-time iCloud sync
• Ready for Retina displays
• Full-screen

Hashtags:

• Write #tags to group files
• Use in Quick Search and Smart Folders
• All hashtags are shown in Organizer and Go menu
• Hide hashtags from Preview and PDFs in Templates preferences

Smart Folders:

• Filter your files using a variety of rules including text searches, file extensions, hashtags, parent and ancestor paths, absolute and relative dates
• Use a custom sort order
• Automatically sync across your devices
• Get automatic keyboard shortcuts in Go menu

URL Commands:

• Updated commands to create and open documents
• Added authenticated x-callback-url commands to read and write files
• Manage URL commands in General preferences

Dark Appearance:

• Renamed night mode to dark appearance to conform with a future update of macOS
• System light and dark appearance state is matched by default with a future update of macOS

Free Candy:

• Added navigation controls to Library in full screen windows
• Assign custom display names to Library Locations in Organizer
• Rename Favorites in Organizer
• Duplicate items in Library
• Go > Enclosing Folder menu
• Fixed an issue where images couldn’t be dragged to Editor from Safari, Photos, and other apps
• Added STIX 2.0 fonts for math expressions in Preview
• HTML tags are dimmed in Editor
• Hide Favorites, Smart Folders, or Hashtags sections from Organizer and Go menu in Library preferences

Fixes:

• Improved library performance and reduced memory usage
• SVG images are always displayed as pictures when used as content blocks
• Code blocks are excluded from text stats