Support is Excellent
When I experienced an issue, the developer responded immediately and started working on it that same day. They remained committed to finding a solution and didn't stop until everything was resolved. That kind of customer support is hard to find these days. Combined with their excellent product, it makes for a truly exceptional experience.
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‘Upgrade in settings to export’
Having paid £20 for this app some ago, mainly to support the app and get export functionality, it now says ‘upgrade in settings to export’. The functionality of that is not working, and also why would I pay twice for the same thing?
Aesthetic peace for productive writing
I'm writing my third book, and it's delightful that I now can use this app. Not only it's functional, beautiful and well-designed for peace of mind and creativety, but it's also actively developed. The app's developer responds quickly to bugs and fixes them at lightning speed. Wonderful app.
Disappointing
I love the ideas and really wanted it to work. But it just isn’t there yet. Even a simple function like Undo can turn your document into a mess. So how can you can you trust it with important work? Some of the features described I simply couldn’t get to work. I really do hope it gets better, maybe I’ll take another shot one day.
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Subscription to use Apple Intelligence ?!
I can understand a subscription for chatgpt. But “Author” still wants to charge you if you use your own Apple Intelligence. I don’t mind paying for software, but I won’t pay for a subscription to use inbuilt services that are free on my laptop. This is highly annoying. I will cease using Author.
Wonderful!
This perfectly named app is PERFECT for writing drafts of a novel-length manuscript. Beautiful to look at, stable, with just enough options to customize the experience without demanding a steep learning curve. Using the tab key every time you need an indented paragraph - like the old days on a typewriter - makes you feel like a real writer. Thank you.
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Amazing app!
It takes some time getting used to, but I think it’s an amazing app. I like it a lot more than Word! It has a nice and clean lay-out, lots of useful keyboard shortcuts, and just lots of useful functions in general. I first bought this app for creative writing (which I hate doing in Word) but now I’ve found myself using it all the time for all different kinds of writing. I’d definitely recommend it!
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A labor of love I love
I use it many hours everyday - for job interview preparation. An excellent tool able to record links, headings, key points. Frode is spot on. Author introduced me to new ways of thinking and connecting thoughts - job prep has evolved into research and knowledge of industry practices, logging data, identifying and exploring concepts. When I get a new position, I will have to credit Author. In anticipation, I have started building connected documents to support leading and managing. I plan to use it for executive level reporting. I have not used the VR capabilities, yet. What a wonder that will be. Thank you, Frode.
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Initial headache turned out to be a PEBKAC issue
I made the mistake (and it was a mistake) of downloading this based on the App Store promise of “…Author is ideal for EVERYTHING from note-taking to academic writing.”
Everything is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I wanted something to help with creative writing and fiction. For this purpose, I’d rate the application at about minus 3 stars.
However.
I stuck with it after realising my mistake and found that it is the ideal tool for my “day job”. For technical reports, research papers, training material, etc. it is absolutely fantastic.
It would be 5 stars if I could find a crib sheet for all of the keyboard shortcuts.
Everything is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I wanted something to help with creative writing and fiction. For this purpose, I’d rate the application at about minus 3 stars.
However.
I stuck with it after realising my mistake and found that it is the ideal tool for my “day job”. For technical reports, research papers, training material, etc. it is absolutely fantastic.
It would be 5 stars if I could find a crib sheet for all of the keyboard shortcuts.
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More AI Nonsense
Real writers don’t use AI, and this app puts the theft machine front and center.
“Ask AI” is not working
The “Ask AI” feature shows an infinite loading spinner and displays an unexpected price string: “199 p/месяц,” which appears to be Russian. As a US user, this raises concern and looks like a localization or billing bug.
Aside from this issue, the app is well designed. It would be significantly stronger if local AI endpoints or BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) were implemented, as this would better support privacy and trust.
Aside from this issue, the app is well designed. It would be significantly stronger if local AI endpoints or BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) were implemented, as this would better support privacy and trust.
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Crashing
I am sorry to write this, having paid for the app and wanting the great features to work. The app crashes - an example after asking it to save to iCloud it appeared to do so, although a chunk of more recent text was greyed out and then disappeared. The word count went from c.1200 to c.900. Whilst staring at the screen in disbelief at losing my work the app crashed. Using the latest version of Sequoia M4 Mac mini. Not a big loss this time, but feels now a risk.
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Love it
It’s a great tool for organizing my thoughts and improving my writing. Totally worth it!
No French
It’s not translated in French as described.
Some buttons are not in latin-like language.
Some buttons are not in latin-like language.
Great for minimalist journaling, and probably a lot more
I primarily bought Author to use as a minimalist, open-and-type journaling app. For this it’s been excellent. There are layers of features, for which I didn’t initially buy the app, that are well thought out and useful.
I use it to record daily bird watching observations. I love the way that entries expand and contract. With a few shortcut keys, I can “zoom out” to a macro level of information that just shows me the names of the birds I listed for each day. Then, it expands back with a few shortcut keys and it feels like “zooming in” to read the details I recorded for that day. The text find feature is similarly helpful.
And, it’s a joy to use with a good mechanical keyboard. It just feels satisfying to type stuff.
I use it to record daily bird watching observations. I love the way that entries expand and contract. With a few shortcut keys, I can “zoom out” to a macro level of information that just shows me the names of the birds I listed for each day. Then, it expands back with a few shortcut keys and it feels like “zooming in” to read the details I recorded for that day. The text find feature is similarly helpful.
And, it’s a joy to use with a good mechanical keyboard. It just feels satisfying to type stuff.
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Citing is the heart
I’m a PhD student, and I always wanted an app like this. When I saw it, I thought it was a dream come true so I buy the three apps, author, reader and liquid. After using them I can say that, I completely love the idea and the concept of the apps. I hope that this apps from augmented text continue evolving in order to someday become my main option to go when writing and recommend them to all my friends and colleagues (Hardware MacBook Pro M1).
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Never Worked
The Author of this app never responded to me. I also was unable to get a refund on any of the apps. I bought all the apps that came from the author of this writing app, but unfortunately none of them work for some reason, even though I’ve checked the OS, updates, etc. Very frustrating to be ignored by both Apple and this app publisher.
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Metni kopyalayamıyorum
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Developing...
I very much want Author to soar past the other tools I've been using. I'm rating it 5-stars in faith that it will improve and become everthing it can be.
Currently I'm stuck with the following tools:
- MS Word because of its auto-outlining capabilities. I desperately want Author to match or exceed it. I long for freedom.
- IA Writer for its massive editing feature set, but Writer's sans/humanist fonts are apalling to me. Author does not have this flaw.
- Byword for its simplicity (and .txt default. I never got into markdown; its useful but I just don't like it).
Most of Author's features I have not yet explored, but the concept map looks fascinating, and the ability to make notes in the margins is nice. There's a lot of promise in this tool, no matter how niche, and I look forward to being part of the developer's journey. Best to you, sir. I'm on your side.
Currently I'm stuck with the following tools:
- MS Word because of its auto-outlining capabilities. I desperately want Author to match or exceed it. I long for freedom.
- IA Writer for its massive editing feature set, but Writer's sans/humanist fonts are apalling to me. Author does not have this flaw.
- Byword for its simplicity (and .txt default. I never got into markdown; its useful but I just don't like it).
Most of Author's features I have not yet explored, but the concept map looks fascinating, and the ability to make notes in the margins is nice. There's a lot of promise in this tool, no matter how niche, and I look forward to being part of the developer's journey. Best to you, sir. I'm on your side.
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