# Cool Writer — Awesome writing & note taking

> Versatile writing, note-taking, and text editing app with advanced features and file conversion. (iPhone/iPad app by 纲 王.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cool-writer/id477698296 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [纲 王](https://appshunter.io/developer/477698299)
- Category: Productivity, Social Networking
- Price: $2.99 with in-app purchases
- Rating: 3.80/5 from 46 App Store ratings · 85 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 8.0 · 17 MB
- Languages: American English, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2011-11-11
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cool-writer/id477698296/reviews.md

## What is Cool Writer?

CW is not only a wonderful app for taking notes, writing and editing text, it also integrates conversion to PDF and image files, supports opening/printing most common file types. It comes with five cool built-in keyboards for you to input anything in a convenient and fun way: 
1. Special Characters Keyboard: contains 20 categories and more than 2000 special characters.
2. Emoji Keyboard: composed of 5 categories and 471 emoticons.
3. Article Keyboard: made up of 400 popular characters/emoji article pictures in 14 categories(animals, love…)
4. Crazy Text Keyboard: makes your text input interesting. For example, ‘upside-down’ enables you to input inverted characters. 
5. Shortcut Keyboard: define your own categories and add keys, which can be any texts. Saving your time of inputting text.
6. Create your own keyboard! (You can add or remove those keyboards in Preferences).
7. Support disable/enable Keyboard and keyboard categories. 

Powerful Accessory Keys:
1. These are keyboard extension, which can be found at the very top line of your keyboard.
2. They include arrow keys, word keys (to navigate between words), delete/space/select/copy/past/redo/undo/date/time keys, automatic bullets and numbering keys, etc
3. You can add, remove, edit, and reorder your accessory keys in Preferences->Accessory keys. You can also add your own shortcut keys into accessory keys.
4. Switch key enables you to efficiently switch between the keyboards. Making it faster and more convenient to write and edit text. 

The Advanced Editor supports:
1. Displaying line numbers. 
2. Jumping to a specific line-number within the editor.
3. Turning off the Word Wrap.
4. Current line highlighting with the color of your choice.
5. Setting line spacing, margins,  tab width

Other writing features:
1. Type and view your work in full screen mode.
2. Adjust font size, Change font style.
3. Word, character & line counts
4. Auto-save. Your text will never get lost.
5. Lock writing orientation. 
6. Save txt in UTF-8 or Unicode. 

Supports:
1. Open multilingual text-encoding. Includes Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Ukrainian... Save them in Unicode or UTF-8.
2. Non-binary files editing (C,CPP, HTML…)
3. Rename, delete, copy, and move your files as you please.
4. Sort your files by name, size, type, or time; Display files and folders as list, icons or thumbnails, Photos/txt/rtf/PDFs can be listed using big thumbnails. 
5. In-text search & replace, as well as file’s & folder’s name search.
6. Convert text files to PDF or image format, Background, font style/color will be shown in PDF and image completely. You can also custom conversion settings: PDF Title, subject, author, password, head title, margins, paper number, paper size and so on.
7. The converted PDF/images can be saved in folders,print or sent with an email or opened in other applications. The image can also be saved to the photo album. 
8. Add & open files from 3rd party app.
9. Dropbox syncing:  automatically synchronizes your files and folders in "Dropbox" storage. 
10. Real-time iCloud sync with folder support.
11. File sharing through WiFi network, iTunes USB, e-mail attachment.
12. Support Previewing of iWork/Microsoft Office documents, RTF documents, PDF/Image files...
13. Long press the file item to open the file in other App. 
14. Print files using AirPrint.
15. Protect your privacy with passcode. 
16. Zip and unzip files/folders.

Themes:
1. 12 beautiful themes that can be switched easily. Different skins represent your different moods and highlight free personality.
2. Create your own skin. Import picture from your photo album, use an image taken directly from your built-in camera. stretch/rotate/tile/zoom the picture, defining the color of text & buttons.
3. Create your own colorful skin: you can define the color of paper line, background, toolbar and text.
4. Switch paper space from solid to dashed line, or no lines at all.

## Key features

- Specialized keyboards (special characters, emoji, article, crazy text, shortcut)
- Customizable accessory keys for quick actions
- Advanced text editor with line numbers and highlighting
- Full-screen mode and font customization
- Word, character, and line counts
- Auto-save and file management
- Convert text to PDF and image files

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: $2.99.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlimited RTF Editing | $0.99 | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (10 of 85)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cool-writer/id477698296/reviews.md

### 4/5 — Awesome Note App

*2024-03-18*

Could you please update this app iOS 17.4, there is no other notes app like this one!

### 4/5 — Have Enjoyed the Cool Writer!

*2021-07-15, version 5.7*

Enjoyed it so much (since 2014) the documents on my older iPad are inaccessible; the new version won’t work with iOS9-10. I will take both pads to an authorized Apple tech. Perhaps my treasured writings will be mine again.
But really, folks, Cool Writer is da bomb!
Nobody in California

### 1/5 — Crashing

*2020-04-12, version 5.6*

The app crashes and has been crashing for months . When you start typing it crashes. It was a great app until this problem started.

### 1/5 — THANK YOU FOR UPDATE!!!

*2019-11-29, version 5.6*

PLEASE FIX!!  This app was amazing but with new iOS update the app opens for like 10 seconds then crashes,!!! 
I paid for the full version and loved it for years now there’s no update and the app won’t open with all my info!!!!! UPDATE NEEDED

**Developer response:** Sorry for that, We will upgrade this app for iOS11 and new devices soon.

### 1/5 — update kills it.

*2019-11-20, version 5.6*

ever since the last ios update this app loads for half a second then dies.

### 4/5 — Crashing in iOS13

*2019-09-27*

App will open and can access list of docs but when trying to open a doc it crashes. Also unable to use iOS13 Shortcut with app as only a very fleeting glimpse of authorisation ‘screen’ before an overlay of several colours appears ??

### 1/5 — crash

*2019-04-20, version 5.6*

after a latest OS upgrade,  it crashes right after opening
the apps!  Any suggestions?

### 5/5 — Love it!

*2018-08-28, version 5.6*

I had this app for a longtime. I love this app and I have so many devices that this app is used on. My 5 kids even use this app on their devices. I tried other writing apps, but none came to close to this. This is the best writing app. I absolutely love it.

### 1/5 — No response from Support

*2018-06-07, version 5.6*

I downloaded the app after reading user reviews. Was unable to link Dropbox, so sent requests to support team for advice. Never received a reply. 
Cool Writer may not exist. The Cool Rabbit website looks neglected.

### 4/5 — Finally an app with line Numbers....love this....

*2018-02-11, version 5.6*

I really enjoy the option to have these line numbers, it helps me to keep track of my editing. THAT IS AWESOME.
YOU CANNOT FIND THIS OPTION IN ANY APP, AT LEAST I COULD‘NT FIND ANY.
The search option for words is very helpful to.
I also enjoying the paper variety.
The only reason I do not give 5 stars is that the multitasking for the latest iOS version is not working or available yet.
Otherwise a very smart nice app.
Thank you, looking very  forward for your updates.
Danny

## Frequently asked questions about Cool Writer

### What does Cool Writer do?

Cool Writer is a comprehensive application designed for writing, note-taking, and text editing. It provides advanced editing tools, specialized keyboards for enhanced input, and the ability to convert text files into PDF or image formats. It also includes robust file management features.

### What are the key features of Cool Writer?

Key features include multiple specialized keyboards (special characters, emoji, article, crazy text, shortcut), customizable accessory keys for quick actions, an advanced editor with line numbers and highlighting, full-screen mode, font customization, word/character/line counts, auto-save, and the ability to convert text to PDF and image files.

### How much does Cool Writer cost?

The application is free to download and use, with in-app purchases available. Specific pricing for in-app purchases is not detailed in the provided description.

### What file types can Cool Writer open and convert?

The app supports opening and editing common file types, including non-binary files like C, CPP, and HTML. It can convert text files to PDF or image formats, preserving background, font style, and color. It also supports multilingual text encodings.

### Who is the target audience for Cool Writer?

This app is ideal for writers, students, professionals, and anyone who requires a versatile and feature-rich tool for creating, editing, and managing text-based content on their mobile device.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 5.7 — 2020-07-11

Fiexed some bugs on the new iOS & devices.

### 5.6 — 2018-01-15

Fixed the bug: crashed sometimes when you select all&delete the text in advanced editor.

### 5.5 — 2017-10-31

Fixed bugs, iOS11 ready.

### 5.2 — 2014-10-05

iOS8 ready!
Add an Unicode Symbol Key on accessory bar: tap this key, select a symbol, you can input any unicode symbol characters by using the standard keyboard.
Add an option to turn off the accessory key bar.
Fixed bugs.

### 5.0 — 2014-07-24

Add Advanced Editor for rtf/txt , the basic editor for txt is still supported, The Advanced Editor supports the following features:
1.  Supports displaying line numbers along the left side of editor. 
2.  Supports jumping to a specific line-number within the editor.
3.  Supports setting margins, Margins allow you to add white space to top, right, bottom and left borders.
4.  You can turn off the Word Wrap, so that you can read/write text from left to right with horizontal scrolling.
5. Highlight insertion point: current line highlighting (the line with the insertion point is highlighted with the color of your choice).
6. Supports setting line spacing. 
7. Supports setting tab width.

Writing paper line for rtf editor supports

Fixed some bugs.

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All apps by 纲 王: https://appshunter.io/developer/477698299

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