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.

I have had this app for nearly thirteen years, it has been my indispensable writing companion that entire time. Indispensable to the point that I am unable to make the switch to android as this app is no longer supported there. I literally just got a new phone and it had to be an iPhone solely because of this app, that’s how much I love it. Every feature is useful, succinct and it’s worth every penny. I highly recommend!