# Taio - Markdown & Text Actions

> Ultimate text processing app

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1527036273](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1527036273)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1527036273`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** 颖 钟
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (649 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.68.0
- **Last updated:** 2023-09-13
- **First published:** 2020-11-21
- **Size:** 44 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/taio-markdown-text-actions/id1527036273)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://docs.taio.app/#/privacy](https://docs.taio.app/#/privacy)

## Description

Taio is a modern text processing app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, delivering clipboard capture, a full Markdown editor (CommonMark and GitHub Flavored), and powerful text workflows. It includes in-document search, built-in image uploading, focus mode, multi-tab editing, themes, outline view, math formulas, wikilinks/backlinks, export options, dynamic text in snippets, an open file system accessible to other apps, and syntax highlighting for common languages.

Taio Actions lets you build extensible workflows from action blocks with variables and control flows, and you can write custom blocks in JavaScript via JSBox for deeper iOS integration. With universal purchase and iCloud syncing across devices, Taio enables cross-device productivity for power users.

## Rankings

- #65,827 — Overall
- #86 — text editor

## Review summary

Taio is praised as a powerful, highly customizable Markdown editor with LaTeX support and broad device integration, appreciated for its native feel and cross-app usefulness. However, users frequently cite stability issues and slow performance, a perceived lack of updates, pricing that hides features behind Pro, Mac-specific UX quirks, and limited cloud-provider support. Overall, strong capabilities are tempered by polish, maintenance, and pricing considerations.

### Pros

- Powerful, feature-rich Markdown editor with LaTeX support and file format conversions.
- Extremely customizable with easy-to-use settings; regarded as among the best Markdown editors.
- Native macOS/iOS experience with solid Apple ecosystem integration and mobile-friendly design.
- Cross-tool usefulness: complements Obsidian, can open non-Taio files, and exports to formats like RTF or Apple Notes.
- Lifetime unlock / one-time purchase option praised by some users.

### Cons

- Stability and performance issues: crashes, long delays in input, slow cursor responses.
- Lack of frequent updates; perceived stagnation and dwindling developer activity.
- Pricing model and gating: many features require Pro or a high upfront cost.
- Mac-specific UX gaps: missing basic file operations (save as/move), iPad-like behavior, overall polish issues.
- Cloud integration limitations: the Locations sidebar doesn’t work with non-Apple providers (e.g., OneDrive/Google Drive).

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