iA Writer

iA Writer

A Laser-Focused Writing App

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“My favorite iOS app for writing in Markdown, without question, is iA Writer iA Writer is just beautiful. To me, it’s the gold standard for Markdown syntax styling... an elegant champagne flute. That’s iA Writer for me.” –John Gruber
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Ashish Bhateja
Bought this in their early years. But they changed the pricing model and my purchase was made obsolete. The developers spend a lot on their publicity but I think there are better alternatives imo.
Oliver Reichenstein
iA Presenter
Maker
@ashish_bhateja iA Writer has had free updates for eight years. The original app you mention is 12 years old, had received free updates for 6 years, and worked without any issues for 8, until Apple’s operating system updates made it obsolete. We believe in fairness. We don't believe in working for free.
Oliver Reichenstein
iA Presenter
Maker
In 2010, the original iA Writer introduced focused writing with Markdown. Twelve years later, iA Writer opens the doors to a simple and friendly knowledge management system with wikilinks.
Cole Kennedy
Been a dedicated user of iA Writer for almost my entire career. It's an indispensable notepad. I'm not entirely sure how I'll incorporate links into my workflow, but if it's implemented with anything resembling the thought and craft iA put into the rest of the product over the years, I'm sure it'll be well done.
Oliver Reichenstein
iA Presenter
Maker
@cdohertyk Thank you for your support, Cole. Wikilinks was new for me, too, when we started two years ago, but it quickly became a very productive and natural habit. I use them when I expand on a thought inside an article that fits but would stretch the purpose of the text. I use them to collect thoughts on my favorite topics (together with hashtags), and I use them for more complex projects (with a TOC made of Wikilinks). There are plenty more ways! You can always get in touch with us if you have questions. If you find a cool workflow, please share it with us.
Cole Kennedy
@reichenstein My workflow is rather boring: I create a new note at the beginning of each month, and each day gets an H2 heading. Then I simply fill it with all the drafts and scratch copy I find myself writing throughout the day, before it is ready for other eyes or to be placed in the 'final' doc. The solo focus/lack of collaboration is actually a huge benefit for me! Perhaps I will begin to remember tagging and linking things together for later reference.
Andrey 🇺🇦
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iA Writer is the first app I'd always install on a new device. Rare example of exceptional software that only gets faster, more reliable and qualitatively better with time. Amazingly the wikilinks-style support is what I've been emulating for about 3 years, as other "second brain" apps were either too slow or too badly made to replace my tool for thought — iA Writer. Supercharged tags and auto-links is an amazing bonus. I know that shipping great work is a pleasure of itself, but still — super well done and thank you!
Oliver Reichenstein
iA Presenter
Maker
@andreyz Thank you, too, for this wonderful review. We were skeptical at first, but once we tried linking documents there was no going back. We're really excited about extending the shareability of our markdown plaintext files with other apps.
Maximilian Schulz
Congratulations on the release!! You guys never disappoint! There’s no better app for writing! It’s a pure joy being able to use the same files with either Obsidian or iA Writer depending on the situation! Would you ever consider adding support for backlinks as well? Hats off to the whole team! Congratulations!
Oliver Reichenstein
iA Presenter
Maker
@maxwschulz Hi Maximilian, yes, backlinks are next on our roadmap.
Maximilian Schulz
You made my day! 🫶
Mehran Khalili
My go-to app for notes and writing since it was first released. Well done Oliver and team, for continuing to develop it. Hashtags were already awesome, but wikilinks are brilliant for turning your notes library into a real knowledge database, among many other things. I also notice search is a lot faster. I have 12,000 notes and rising, and the last version stuttered on iOS for me when searching. No longer!
Oliver Reichenstein
iA Presenter
Maker
@mkhalili Thank you, Merhan. We indeed put a lot of time and energy into making it performant. Lots of people that stress-tested it with thousands of files have reported that it is indeed flying fast. You will also notice, that start-up time is much faster compared to a nonnative app.
Neil
This is a great app and it's awesome to see a new major version. IA is clearly focused on creating a great, highly focused experience, and their attention to detail is often missing from other notetaking apps. The only thing it's missing (for me) is folder support for Dropbox on mobile (like the Desktop version supports), but I understand it's more complicated on mobile. Still, if you're looking for a dedicated text notes app, this is one of the best.
Oliver Reichenstein
iA Presenter
Maker
@neilio Thank you Neil. Well, I have good news for you: Last week, Apple announced support for NSFileProviderReplicatedExtension in iOS and iPadOS 16. Most file sync services, including Dropbox, support it on macOS. Once they start using the same code on iOS and iPadOS, you’ll be able to add folders as custom Library Locations. We've been a bit stubborn on this, but finally, it looks like we might have been on the right track. :-)
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