iA Writer

My all-time favorite app for writing. It’s beautiful, focused, and calm—an antidote to how basically everything else works on devices and computers these days. Absolutely lovely. They sweat the details and it shows.

The writing itself is gorgeous, minimalist, and incredibly practical. I was very excited for iA to become my main drafting and freewriting tool. The only issue is that sometimes the app will delete chunks or text or lose documents (the titles appear but the content is gone or cannot be opened) if you are saving things to iCloud. I have tried a couple of different things with iCloud to fix this, but no luck. Of course this limits how useful it is, there is nothing the iA writer team can do about this, and I only mention this to other users so they can avoid losing a document in the first place. Just only use the sync features on copies of files that are otherwise stored directly on your device.