The time spent thinking before and while writing was frighteningly low. Most started by adjusting fonts and margins, typed a bit, deleted a bit, moved text around, and got caught in a loop of fumbling. I noticed students wasted too much time on formatting and playing with non-writing-related functions – and that I was no different. Oliver: I used to teach Microsoft Office and academic writing. We speak to iA founder Oliver Reichenstein about what it takes to make a revolutionary writing app – and make sure its shine never fades. Byword had to edge when it came to exporting and publishing features too, making it the winner, with iA Writer second.Īs a long time user of iA Writer, I’m happy to be moving to Byword from now on.The latest iA Writer – still sleek and efficient! Q&A: A brief history of iA Writer Overall, although I prefered the look and feel of MarkDrop, iA Writer and Byword were far superior when it came to usage. £5.49 MarkDrop (no iPad version) Conclusion £6.99 Byword + £2.99 publishing addon + £2.99 iPad versionģ. The Mac versions are similary priced, MarkDrop being the cheapest.Ģ. I found this quite convenient, a lot more so than MarkDrop which doesn’t even have a ‘copy html’ option like iA Writer does. When you are ready, you can publish straight to your blog (or just copy it across as a draft). Byword has pretty much the same, which is good.īyword does appear to have the advantage though as a 2.99 in-app purchase, Byword has some extra publishing tools for publishing directly to WordPress and other services: IA Writer has several export options HTML, RTF, Docx, and lets you ‘copy html’ to the clipboard. Instead you have to export HTML then get the contents and put it in WordPress. I personally would have liked to see this as its faster to get content from the App to WordPress. Starting with the weakest, MarkDrop lets you export as a PDF or HTML. The keyboard shortcuts are more compact compared to iA Writer giving you more space to write. iA Writer on the iPadīyword for the iPad is also fab, and although it doesn’t seem to have focus mode, I found the keyboard shortcuts much more useful, giving you quick shortcuts to make headings, links, images, lists and tabs, and also cursor controls. It has some shortcodes when writing allowing you to insert commonly used characters and move the cursor or a single space or by word. The iA Writer iPad app works very similar to the Mac app. Both have iCloud integration letting you continue editing on the go. MarkDrop doesn’t have an iPad app, but Byword and iA Writer do. Winners: Byword and iA Writer Mobile apps As I’m not a Droplr user, and don’t need to share my documents, I didn’t play around with this and just saved locally (boo). MarkDrop however only saves to Droplr – the idea being to make it easy to share documents. Winners: Byword and iA Writer Saving & Syncingīoth Byword and iA Writer save to iCloud which is what I like to see – having my docs in the cloud where I can pick them up from anywhere is a great benefit. Simple editors, with previews and various export options. Other than that, the features are pretty standard. iA Writer focus modeīyword also alternativly lets you focus on lines as well, and has something called ‘typewriter mode’ which keeps the line you are writing centered. This is useful if you want to focus on the paragraph you are currnetly writing. IA Writer and Byword both have a ‘focus mode’ whereby the current paragraph is emphasised (other’s fade). MarkDrop wins for the clean UI and split preview. iA Writer doens’t have this – not neccessarily a bad thing though because the default theme/font is nice to use. I love the split preview in MarkDropĪll three show word count and character count in the footer which is pretty useful.Ĭustomisation wise, MarkDrop and Byword let you choose light or dark, and Byword has font options. MarkDrop has a split pane so you can preview as you type which I like. iA Writer and Byword have a similar appearance, with a plain window for writing only. In this post I’ll review each and give my verdict on my favourite solution overall.Īll apps strive to give a distraction free writing environment. I’ve been experiementing with 3 apps in particular this month Byword, MarkDrop, and the one I’ve used the longest iAWriter. Not from WordPress admin though – I’m a markdown lover and I prefer dedicated apps. This month I’ve been blogging like a champ, every day.
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