# PureWrite: Writing Studio — Screenplay & Markdown Writer

> Screenplay & Markdown Writer (iPhone/iPad app by Yechiel Ben David.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/purewrite-writing-studio/id6773729284 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Yechiel Ben David](https://appshunter.io/developer/1863307655)
- Category: Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 7 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, German (Germany), Hebrew, Japanese
- Released: 2026-08-25
- Data updated: 2026-11-10

## What is PureWrite?

PureWrite is a writing tool with no distractions. Your documents are Markdown files in your own folder, and other apps such as Obsidian can edit them too. Writing and exporting are free.

Writing Studio, a one-time purchase, is for making a longer work: a screenplay, a novel or a paper.

The free app:

• Start typing and the file sidebar and the table of contents leave the screen. Move the pointer back and they return.
• Open a folder you already have. There is no import step and no database, and the folder can stay an Obsidian vault or a git repository.
• Edit the document as it looks, while the file on disk stays ordinary Markdown, tables and links included.
• Hebrew and English in one document: each paragraph takes its own direction, and nothing is written into the file to do it.
• Search the whole folder, with the context around every match.
• Keep footnotes and images in the file as you wrote them.
• Use focus mode, typewriter scrolling, find and replace, and quick open.
• Export a folder or a single document as Word, PDF or EPUB.
• Autosave runs a second after you stop typing.

Writing Studio:

• Screenplays in the standard page format: Courier 12, (MORE) and (CONT'D), dual dialogue, locked scene numbers and production revision marks. Scripts are plain Fountain files, written with nothing else on screen.
• Export to PDF, Word and Final Draft, and import from Final Draft. Final Draft does not support right-to-left text, so a Hebrew or Arabic script goes out as PDF or Word.
• Templates for fiction, life stories, academic work, Torah study and screenplays, with questions and a length target for each part. The prompts appear in the editor and stay out of your files, so you can switch structure without touching your text.
• A sources desk: keep a passage with its source, and leave a short reference in the document. Citations come in seven styles, and a source is looked up only when you ask.
• Two languages side by side: a document and its translation, each in its own file, with the matching paragraph marked.
• Versions of a document, saved as you write, compared word by word and restored.
• An on-device assistant: translate, reword or shorten a selection, then compare the result with your original. Ask a question about the folder, or look for contradictions between chapters. It needs Apple Intelligence on a supported device.

PureWrite never sends your documents anywhere: no account, no telemetry. The network is used only when you ask the studio to look up a source.

macOS, iPhone and iPad. The download is free. Writing Studio is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, shared across your devices with the same Apple Account.

## Is PureWrite safe?

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## Is PureWrite legit?

PureWrite: Writing Studio appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PureWrite is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.0.0 — 2026-11-07

PureWrite 2.0 adds Writing Studio, a one-time purchase for long work. Everything you had stays free, including writing, editing and exporting.

Writing Studio:
• Writing templates for fiction, academic work, life stories, Torah study and screenplays, with a prompt and a length target for each part.
• Screenwriting in Fountain, with Final Draft import and export.
• A sources desk with citations in seven styles.
• Versions of a document, compared and restored.
• A document and its translation side by side.
• An on-device writing assistant, on devices with Apple Intelligence.

Also new, and free: export a single document as Word, PDF or EPUB, not only a whole folder. In edit mode, each document has its own export button.

Fixed: text typed just before switching files always reaches the file it was typed in, and a save that fails now says so.

### 1.1.6 — 2026-10-28

• Move to…: move a file or folder into another folder. In edit mode, tap the folder icon beside it and choose where it goes. A document keeps its images and links when it moves.

Fixed: on iPhone and iPad, the Done button above the keyboard threw away the name of a new file or folder. It now creates it, as Return does.

### 1.1.5 — 2026-10-26

• Export a whole folder as one document — Word, PDF or EPUB — in the order set in the sidebar, with Hebrew and English right in every paragraph and real footnotes. Free.
• Undo and redo, at the start of the toolbar — on iPhone and iPad there is no ⌘Z without a keyboard.
• First-line indent (Settings): long text reads like a printed page — each paragraph after the first is indented, with no blank line between them, on the right in Hebrew and on the left in English. Your Markdown file stays as it is.
• System updates: the editor and its Markdown engine are updated to their latest versions, including security fixes.

Fixed: pressing ⌘Z right after opening a file could empty it.
Fixed: properties at the top of a file (Obsidian or Pandoc front matter) were damaged when the file was opened, and Pandoc citations like [@key] were saved with backslashes.

### 1.1.3 — 2026-10-21

Fixed: on iPhone the settings could be taller than the screen, which pushed the close button out of reach. They now fit the screen, scroll, and close with a tap outside.

### 1.1.2 — 2026-10-20

Tools for the writing itself — and two fixes that matter if your files have images or footnotes.

• Footnotes. Add one from the toolbar; each note stays where you wrote it, and a click on the number takes you to it.
• Images. Pictures in your Markdown now show in the document. Drop an image in, or paste a screenshot: it is saved in an images folder beside the file and linked for you.
• Find and replace in the document (⌘F, ⌥⌘F).
• Focus mode dims everything but the paragraph you are writing; typewriter scrolling keeps your line in the middle of the screen.
• Quick open: ⌘P and part of a file's name.
• Word count, reading time and writing time, at the bottom of the table of contents — with the count for a selection when you select.
• Copy a whole document as formatted text, ready to paste into Word or Google Docs with Hebrew and English facing the right way (⇧⌘C).

Fixed: an image in a file was removed from it on the next save, footnotes were saved as \[^1\], and Hebrew file paths in links came back percent-encoded. Your files now keep exactly what you wrote.

In a Hebrew interface the whole app is now mirrored — the files on the right, the contents on the left. And on iPhone and iPad the App Documents folder reopens after an update instead of coming back empty.

Also in this version: safer syncing between devices — an edit from another device is never overwritten, iCloud files open on Mac before they are downloaded, and saves are atomic. Ready for iOS 27.

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