iA Writer5.6.1

Name: iA Writer
Price: 29.99 $
Rating: 4.4 (11 reviews)

04 August 2020

Professional writing suite (was iA Writer Pro).

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Overview

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

What's new in iA Writer

Version 5.6.1:

Style Check:

Improve your writing by getting rid of fillers, clichés, and redundancies
They’re automatically dimmed and crossed-out as you type
Easy to delete: double-click to select the whole phrase
Private: all processing is done on your device
Fast: optimized to work in real-time
Enable in Focus menu or with Option+Shift+Command+D
Built-in patterns for English, French, German
Add your own patterns in Editor settings
Use the ? button when editing custom patterns to learn how to make them better by providing context, exceptions, and using regular expressions

Other Improvements:

Markdown files open up to 350 times faster
More responsive when editing large files
Editor correctly handles inline code that contains backticks

18 Reviews of iA Writer

Excellent application if you want to boost your productivity while writing. Templates are quite good as well.

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LeroyMorrison

01 June 2018

Version: 5.0

Is this app worth the price? I do a lot of writing but I am not sure if I should purchase it or not.

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InspiredLife2

06 October 2017

Version: 4.0.4

This app appears to have doubled in price. It's now $19.99. Looks like the macupdate page needs updating.

Although I haven't used some of the more epensive direct competition like Ulysses (though I own the previous version) or the unlocked version of Bear Notes, I am very pleased with IA Writer for much of my writing. It's beautiful (custom font, design, even little things like the blue cursor), it's powerful (able to insert links to graphics, pdfs and more) and it's well designed and stable.

I hope to soon try out the publish-to-Wordpress functionality that's built in.

I wish there were some more user customizations but it's a solid app and works beautifully with its iOS version too.

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Without an Outline panel, I've had to discard this app for editing long documents; that is to say, for all my writing. I've replaced it with Typora.
And for pre-production Marked 2 is better. Though once I have it, I may try to use iA Writer to highlight adjectives, nouns, etc. That's it.

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iA Writer Pro is a fine app. It does what it claims. It's a no frills word processor for creative ones. I use it regularly. I have never had problems with the software's quality.

Anastasio

13 November 2015

Version: 3.0.3

No demo version = no purchase.

Like most writers, I keep several apps around. Some I've always liked, some I used to like but now don't use much, and a few I turn to virtually every day. For me there are three of those every-day apps. Scrivener, the workhorse for just about any task. Byword, for quick sketches and direct posting to WordPress. And the current version of iAWriter, which is where I write short fiction and essays. Just what I want.

Unfortunately I can not get this software to run stably. it keeps crashing on both OS X and iOS which is a shame as I really want to use it.

Gazman

28 September 2015

Version: 3.0

As of Version 3 (currently at 3.0.1) iA Writer and iA Writer Pro are merged back into a single program. If you bought iA Writer Pro through the App Store version 3 is a free upgrade. So far I'm liking it much better than the old 'Pro' version with it's convoluted workspaces (writing, editing, notes).

dreamfactory

04 January 2015

Version: 1.4

There's a 21 days fully working demo on the dev's website: http://iawriter.com/demo/iA-Writer-Pro-1.4-6001.zip

Zx81

02 October 2014

Version: 1.2

How can this app have a 5 stars rating on MU most recent updates page?

neartheredrocks

04 April 2014

Version: 1.0

How can the developer dare to name this software "Writer Pro" when there is since years a software by the name "Nisus Writer Pro"?

F451

26 December 2013

Love the concept, but with no trial version how can one objectively decide whether it will work for them? Especially a writing app. Most of the MAS reviews are not good regarding version 1.0 (current version as of my writing this comment).

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