# Mellel — An Advanced Word Processor > Advanced word processor for complex documents on iPad, syncing with Mac. (iPhone/iPad app by Eyal Redler.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mellel/id986769180 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Eyal Redler](https://appshunter.io/developer/408714125) - Category: Productivity, Business - Price: $19.99 - Rating: 3.43/5 from 14 App Store ratings · 23 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 11.0 · 8 MB - Languages: English - Released: 2015-06-15 - Data updated: 2026-06-10 - Monetization: paid - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mellel/id986769180/reviews.md ## What is Mellel? Mellel, the most powerful word-processor for the Mac, comes to the iPad. Built for long and complex documents, Mellel allows you to create documents with style, sophistication, and consistency. What’s even better, Mellel for iPad will gradually incorporate advanced features added to its Mac counterpart. Enjoy full compatibility: All the attributes set on Mellel for Mac are compatible and will be maintained on Mellel for iPad - and vice versa. At home with a Mac or on the top of the Mont Blanc with your iPad, you can now work on your documents, keeping your cross-references, citations, images, captions, custom auto-titles, notes and so on intact. Power at your fingertips: Mellel supports several powerful features, allowing you to access some high-end word-processing features while enjoying the iPad ease-of-use: • Outline: Easily navigate your entire document via the Outline. • Auto-titles: Easily add headings to structure your document. • Find and Replace: Find any word, anywhere in your documents. • Track-Changes: Track changes you and others make in a document. • Comments: Add comments to your document. • Notes: Easily add footnotes, endnotes, author notes, and more. • Tables: Insert and edit tables in your document. • Word count: Count words, paragraphs, lines, notes, and more. • Special characters: Use the Insert strip to easily insert special characters and symbols. • Zoom: Examine details or zoom out to 4-up view, to view your entire document flow. • Document viewer: Add, duplicate, delete, name and rename your documents. Styling is easy: Mellel's powerful styles will allow you to style your documents on-the-fly or using styles, allowing you to maintain consistency and apply a myriad of changes all at once: • Character: Apply character styles or set the font, font face, size and other attributes yourself. • Paragraph: Apply paragraph styles or set the alignment, line spacing and direction yourself. • Images: Add images to your document, and move them around. • Text boxes: edit and manipulate text boxes. • Lists: Start, stop, increase and decrease lists, and apply list styles. • Section: Apply section styles to set two, three or four columns in any section of the document. • Page: Apply page style, to change the margins, headers and footers and other attributes. • Marking: Mark text easily and quickly. iCloud: Turn on iCloud to make your documents automatically available on your Mac: • Save your documents to iCloud Drive, Dropbox, and compatible storage services. from your iPad or your Mac... • ... And easily open them in place or your iPad. • Export files as DOCX, RTF or PDF from Mellel for iPad. • Import files in RTF or DOCX format. • Send your documents via eMail anywhere. ## Key features - Outline navigation - Auto-titles for structure - Track changes - Insert and edit tables - Advanced styling options - iCloud synchronization - Export to DOCX, RTF, PDF ## Recent user reviews (10 of 23) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mellel/id986769180/reviews.md ### 4/5 — Convenient iOS document creation *2024-06-04* Mellel is my favorite app to create documents on my iPad—simple powerful and convenient. My one complaint is that the document page does not seem to support folders so document organization is extremely handicapped. ### 4/5 — additional Mellel folders *2022-10-20, version 5.1.3* just create a folder in Files app and drag to Mellel folder ### 3/5 — Really want to like the app but have a few issues with it *2022-02-07, version 5.0.8* The idea of having Mellel on my iPad, portable…powerful I really like. There’s a few things I think it really needs to be a better mobile writing experience (and if they exist already please let me know). 1. Ability to set keyboard shortcuts for different auto-titles, and a custom font (like body with red text), bullet, and outlines. This constant task of having to tap insert and reselect the number slows me down incredibly. 2. The mac keyboard shortcuts do not work properly to navigate lines. The very important cmd+ left arrow, or cmd+ right arrow should navigate on the current line and they do not. They jump to the top of the document, but not even the actual top (which is the purpose of cmd+ up arrow/down arrow which work as expected). 3. Proper folder support in the Documents view - no idea why there are no folders, but I just have a bunch of documents in an unorganized group. Even if I have my documents in folders they just all show in place. 4. Ability to open Mellel files as a pdf on iPhone from iCloud, or a Mellel Viewer app for iPhone… I don’t always have my iPad or computer with me so this is really essential as well. 5. Click+shift to highlight a section of test does not work as well as click and drag to highlight text. (Apple magic keyboard). If these could be fixed it would make the writing experience so much better, thanks! ### 5/5 — great app *2020-12-28, version 5.0.5* I love this app! Wonderful for right to left languages. Works great for English also. ### 3/5 — Extemely limited! *2020-07-06, version 5.0.0* Mellel doesn’t even have autocorrect! How useless is that? I’ve tried it several times and fail to see any advantages over other note-taking apps such as Apple Notes, for example. Or Microsoft Word or Apple Pages (these are excellent). Many others are way more capable than this overly-simplified one. ### 1/5 — Does not integrate with Siri (dictation) *2020-02-20, version 4.2.8* Update 7 (2/2020): Siri dictation still doesn’t work right. Update 6 (2/2020): Siri dictation still (and still) doesn’t work right. Update 5 (6/2019): Siri dictation still doesn’t work right. Update 4 (11/2018): Siri dictation still doesn’t work right. This is the only word processor I have that doesn’t work. Update 3: Siri dictation still doesn’t work right. Update2: Siri still doesn’t work right. Update: Still useless if you rely on Siri to input text. After using it today, it’s beginning to crash quite often and does not retain what is inputted. Going downhill fast! When using Siri for dictation, Mellel does not work. The complete sentence shows up after you read it, but then is cut by up to 75% when "Done" is pressed. ### 2/5 — It feels outdated *2018-10-18, version 4.1.3* I WANT to like this app, because I love the desktop version of Mellel. But it’s just not “there” yet as an app in and of itself. It feels more like an early iPad app, a companion to the “real” application than an actual tool. ### 4/5 — Terrific complement to Mellel for Mac *2017-12-28, version 4.0.1* I use the Mac version for documents with many 'chapters' and sub-heading with a table of contents. I love it. And Mellel for IPad means that I can take my Documents with me and work on them away from home. There are two things I would like to see for this app. 1. To be able to organize several documents into one notebook or file. 2. To be able to use the system emojis in a document as well as change font colors within a document. ### 2/5 — Limited Power *2017-11-11, version 4.0.1* This is the companion iOS app to Mellel word processor, which is a unique and fine piece of software. Mellel on iOS is very good for writing and editing, especially long form writing. It is also so buggy that currently it’s use is limited. Prime example is iCloud Drive—you never know if the app is going to read the drive’s contents, and it usually does not, and fixing that is pretty much rolling the dice via reboots. Since this currently does one thing that I don’t need right now, I’ve stopped using it. Whenever the iCloud integration works, I’ll start using it again. ### 1/5 — Wow ... I want my money back *2017-09-13, version 4.0.0* This app is not finished. It's terribly buggy. For example, if you do "list" as the first thing that you do, you can't delete the "bullet" or "number" of the list. It's stuck on the first line. No way of deleting it. Undo won't work once you close the document. It's very difficult to select and drag to highlight a clause or sentence. You cannot change the styles. If you want to create your own styles, forget it. You're stuck with the styles they give you when you get the app. I've used it for five minutes and it's awful. Please update and fix these problems. ## Frequently asked questions about Mellel ### What is the price of Mellel? Mellel is a paid application priced at $19.99. This one-time purchase grants you access to all its features. ### What devices does Mellel support? Mellel is currently supported on iPads. It is designed to work seamlessly with its Mac counterpart for document synchronization. ### How often is Mellel updated? Mellel was last updated on December 14, 2023, with version 6.0.0. This indicates regular updates to improve functionality and compatibility. ### Can I collaborate on documents with Mellel? Yes, Mellel includes a Track-Changes feature, allowing you to monitor modifications made by yourself and others to your documents. ### What file formats can Mellel import and export? Mellel for iPad can import files in RTF or DOCX format. It can export files as DOCX, RTF, or PDF. ### How does Mellel handle long and complex documents? Mellel is built specifically for long and complex documents, offering features like an outline for easy navigation, auto-titles for structure, and robust styling options to maintain consistency. ### What is the user sentiment for Mellel based on ratings? Mellel has an average rating of 3.4 stars from 14 ratings. While this indicates room for improvement, it also suggests a user base that finds value in its advanced features. ### Is Mellel suitable for younger users? Mellel has an age rating of 4+, making it suitable for a wide range of users. Its advanced features are geared towards users who require sophisticated document creation tools. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 6.0.0 — 2023-12-14 • Compatibility with Mellel 6 on the Mac. • Bug fixes. ### 5.1.5 — 2023-06-15 • Fixed an issue that caused changes in table text and text boxes in a header/footer to sometimes not to be visible after existing editing the header/footer. • Fixed a problem that caused paragraphs with hanging indents to be exported improperly to docx. • Several other bug fixes. ### 5.1.4 — 2023-03-01 • bug fixes ### 5.1.3 — 2022-08-21 • RTF Import and Export improvements. • Lots of bug fixes. ### 5.1.2 — 2022-05-27 • Fixed several bugs. ## Apps similar to Mellel | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Taskmator - TaskPaper Client](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/taskmator-taskpaper-client/id806250172) | 4.3 (226) | $4.99 | Productivity | | [Bookends](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bookends/id739087947) | 4.7 (392) | Free | Productivity | | [Outliner for iPad](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/outliner-for-ipad/id360659928) | 4.8 (13) | $4.99 | Productivity | | [Notebooks: Write and Organize](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/notebooks-write-and-organize/id1490084838) | 4.7 (1,041) | $17.99 | Productivity | | [StoryLines - Write and Track](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/storylines-write-and-track/id6444220966) | 3.2 (5) | Free | Productivity | | [xScope Mirror](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xscope-mirror/id488819289) | 3.0 (2) | $1.99 | Productivity | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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