iA Writer User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience73.2% of reviews
Neutral9.2% of reviews
Negative experience17.6% of reviews

~ Based on 1,004 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is iA Writer Safe?

iA Writer appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for iA Writer is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 1,530 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

88.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,530 App Store ratings for iA Writer.

Is iA Writer Legit?

iA Writer appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for iA Writer is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Keyboard issues

This app used to work nicely on my iPad Pro 12in using the official keyboard. Unfortunately, right now the app doesn’t show the suggestions on the bottom bar, or even highlight typos or misspellings. Force to show the touch-keyboard, making impossible to use Grammarly. Stage manager is disabled, and the keyboard works perfectly in many other apps. Looks like a small issue, but it completely destroys my workflow. I hope the developers fix this issue ASAP.
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Horrible support with files opened from other apps

The editor is great but opening and editing files from other apps is tedious at best and sometimes constantly shows a status of updating, overwriting edits from other devices or various of other kinds of bad and unpredictable behavior that makes the app extremely difficult to work on documents. When it works it is great but when it doesn’t it will make you want to delete the app.
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Magnífica aplicación.

Es la mejor aplicación de escritura. Simple y con un diseño excelente. Un detalle: la compré hace años y nunca ha dejado de mejorar. Y nunca me han intentado vender una suscripción. Su fidelidad a los clientes es su mejor presentación.

Freeze with icloud

Unusable lately. Open a file in iCloud. Leave the open, reopen the app hours later and try to “exit” current file by tapping the back button to “iCloud”. App freezes entirely and never recovers.

Paid for features that I’m not getting.

With this app being so highly rated and I want it to be useful—the app doesn’t do what it’s saying it will for me. I purchased this app on my iPad as I believe the features would be really convenient to use, however none of the syntax features work at all on my iPad. This is an iPad Pro that is only a few years old. The app works perfectly fine on my iPhone but I didn’t pay for it to be used on there. Please fix this issue as I’m certain I’m probably not the only person experiencing this.
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la mejor app

simplemente fantástica

It’s. Just. Like. This.

Bowing to the Buddha nature, iA Writer presents a white space/blank page/tabula rasa that my ADHD brain appreciates. As said in meditation and concept, “It’s just like this.” And iA Writer enables me to write without backspacing, correcting, editing, and just…writing like no one is watching… Freestyle, free flowing, thank you iA Writer for continuing the updates and improvements, after all these years, you are still my number one. ✌🏼🫶🏼✨
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Impact

Been using since first IA writer then iA writer classic and pro and then the modern mastered iA writer. This is by far the best implementation of what i’ll call a text editor for any outcomes

便利です

便利に使っていますが、最近の仕様変更で検索がわけがわからなくなってしまい、使用に耐えません。探しているメモに辿り着けません。日本語だけなのかもしれませんが、検索語の最初の文字しか探せていなかったり。

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MacでもiOSでもシームレスに使えて、ノートの数が増えても重くならないし、ファイルの状態がオープンなので手動でバックアップする事もできるのがいい。中身がただのテキストファイルなので階層を入れ替えたり他のエディタで編集したりしても問題がおこらない。

yes

yes

Thanks for the recent highlight features!

That’s so important to distinguish AI-generated texts and to remind humans humanize them. Thanks!

Terrible customer service

I found a bug that renders this app useless for me. (Constant pop up "File not found" while editing files.) Submitted a bug report. Was politely told that it’s not gonna be fixed, while actually being a known problem. After I replied, suggesting that the app for a fee has to provide some service and fix issues, I did not even get a reply. Not a worthy investment of money at all. I switched to free Runestone app for my markdown editing and it’s great!
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great

bought this app when it was $9.99 however developer decided jack up price significantly. it’s a shame

Great!

I have this on Mac and iOS. The outline navigation is a great new feature. It’s free of bloat, opens quickly, and syncs perfectly. If even Ulysses has too much to distract you, you’ll be at home with version 8 of iA Writer. Plus, it’s great to have all my writing in plain text markdown files, rather than locked away in a database and held hostage by a subscription.
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Estupenda app

Estupenda app sea que escribas o simplemente la uses para tus notas, fácil de usar aunque los cambios en la interfase son menos intuitivos. Pero igualmente muy buena. Tengo muchos años usándola.

Unhappy from version 8

The latest version 8 made me really unhappy. Chiefly due to merging the former command palette with the lighting menu. The palette’s tiles were very handy and configurable also for writing characters hard to find on keyboard - very useful when you write multilingual documents. Such a pity…

設定消失

原本設定很久的直覺方式功能,一個更新全部設定消失⋯⋯ 希望有備份設定⋯
這次更新讓人失望

Exceptional Tool For Writers, BUT…

I am using Scrivener for organizing the memoir I’m writing, but it hasn’t been an easy app for me to write in. iA Writer is the easiest app I’ve found for writing, but its templates for printing are almost non-existent. The type sizes are too small and the margins are too wide. There is no way to reset margins, fonts, or type sizes within the app and the templates are difficult to change for non-technical users. I’m disappointed.
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My brain’s home

Simple, beautiful, detail obsessed. I’ve always stored my life in plain text and iA Writer is the app I live in nowadays. Motions between actions happen almost at the speed of thought.

The new iPhone update is another happy surprise. My favourite change is the reworked all-in-one search. It’s the most delighted I’ve been by a bar you type in and it guesses what you want since Firefox introduced the Awesome Bar in 2008.
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I’m still with you

chatGPT cares for David and my archive: Research_OS. IAWriter arrived on all devices in my Mac ecosystem and on my M5. In split screen mode on my Studio monitor chatGPT enabled me to talk iAWriter’s language and agreed that the original risk: an expensive purchase: and enables me to work and select fragments for archive which live in Switzerland and in many other and that was easy. I can distribute fragments of trace capture that inform my accidentology and traceology. I’m caring for myself. iAWriter has some tools that began to withdraw from me: keyboard combinations and a navigation that me in a state of near panic were required and chatGPT within Firefox told me how to speak with operators and tools present became present-to-hand once more. IAWIter is still under audit. I say: take the leap. Good luck everyone.
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