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

New Features:

• New typeface in three flavors
• Mono: Single character width, the classic
• Duo: Two widths, freeing M and W
• Quattro: Four widths, for a cleaner text image
• Over 1,000 optical variations seamlessly adapt to provide the best writing experience in any environment
• 14 text sizes in Editor and Preview
• Many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typography improvements, including emphasis dots
• Bold, italic, and strikethrough commands are much more reliable and work inside words
• High quality math equation typesetting in Preview using KaTeX

Library Locations:

• Now support Desktop & Documents in iCloud
• Can be added from anywhere in iCloud Drive

Fully-Featured Export to Microsoft Word:

• Rebuilt from the ground up
• Compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 or newer, Apple Pages, and Google Docs
• Supports local images, footnotes, citations, page breaks, tables, math, headings, unordered lists, ordered lists, task lists, definition lists, blockquotes, bold, italic, CJK emphasis, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, links, horizontal rules, code

Other Improvements:

• Added visible filename when switching between tabs with hidden title bar
• Copy URL command to open files from menu in Library
• Command-Click links in Editor
• Use to exclude words from searches: -microsoft word
• Inline code command
• Typing suggestions can be enabled in Touch Bar
• Korean and Russian localizations
• Added help articles
• Better hashtag detection