# RTF Write — user reviews

> 43 indexed App Store user reviews of RTF Write by Mach Software Design, rated 3.00/5 from 1 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rtf-write/id822253992/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rtf-write/id822253992.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 0 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0

## Newest reviews (12 of 43)

### 3/5 — Presque

*2026-02-06*

On a droits a textedit, mais on a rtf Write, dommage les icones de la nouvelle version sorte de l’ecran sur un iphone 16e

### 3/5 — Not very well programmed

*2026-01-26*

Very frustrating to use. Search for document, open the wrong one and it goes back to the main screen so I have to start the search all over again. Open a document, go away for a few minutes and it returns to the main screen so I have to reopen the document.  Could be so much better programmed.

### 3/5 — Access to notes on iCloud?

*2023-06-19*

Tried submitting a question to the company, but it seems to be very difficult to find their website. I downloaded RTF Write because I wanted to take the notes I have on the iCloud and save them as RTF documents on my PC. However, RTF rate does not have access to the notes that are saved on iCloud; access to the area that they saved it. That seems a pretty major drawback

### 3/5 — It is acceptable.

*2020-04-02*

It presents an easy-to-use interface, it is quite simple, and it works. The reason I give the app a three star, however, is because it is a little out-dated. It seems to be stuck in time and needs an update.

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work.

*2017-10-03*

Does not open any of the many RTF files,none. They all appear blank. The basic windows notepad can open them fine.

I wanted to add a major problem. Not only does  this program not display the rtf document but it erases the underlying file down to a blank form! Files drop from 48kb to 98bytes after viewing!  Without saving or editing at all. Good thing I had backups of the original files it erased the content from. I tested this erasing behavior on about 10 files, same results

### 3/5 — Good app?

*2017-09-29*

I came to the reviews section thinking the app was actually pretty good. I've had it for a long time, and even though there are some pretty inconvenient bugs, I mean, it's a free app.
However, I came here to make the developers aware of these bugs, because they've remained in the app for so long now. About a year, I guess.
And... I'm seeing several complaints from a year ago that have obviously not been addressed at all. Not sure what the developers are thinking or if they just gave up or what.
Overall, I like the app, I like the way it looks and the intended functionality, but there are some bugs I'll mention just in case anyone will bother to try to fix it:
• Consistently crashes every time I try to go back to the "home page" from an open document
•Sometimes the nice little convenient "shortcut" button things like the comma and delete buttons on top of the iOS keyboard freezes the whole document. It's strange.
• If a document within the app gets to be too large, the app kind of folds into itself and fails the entire app when you try to open it or retrieve any of its data (I had that complaint the first time I got the app...maybe 3 years ago? and haven't tested this since. Not sure if this still applies, but I'm assuming it will based on my observations today)
Once you know the bugs, it's easy to anticipate them and prevent them and they're also pretty quick bugs, not something majorly threatening, just probably really annoying/frustrating if you're an impatient person, which I am, thankfully, not.
I'm still keeping the app. I like the way it looks and it's free and I don't exactly require much else.

### 1/5 — Apple, remove this trash.

*2017-09-22*

Doesn’t even open all RTFs.

I know RTF is a weird and unstandardised format, but an app made exclusively to work with RTF should be able to open most RTF if not all.

### 2/5 — Impoverished

*2017-03-15, version 1.7.0*

Yes, I can now create and edit .rtf files on my iPad, but only after a fashion. Leaving aside the painfully limited formatting options (eg, no paragraph spacing), there's a basic failure in the way the app works. If text is made bold, italic and/or underlined, then the document's font size, font face, line spacing or justification are changed, everything reverts to plain text. Supremely annoying and useless!

As a final insult, the app crashed while I was trying to change some selected text from American Typewriter to Optima. It feels like an early beta at best and the developers will need to improve it significantly if they don't want it to be one of those apps that is typically deleted on the same day it was downloaded.

I would like it to get better, and I applaud any effort to create an .rtf solution for iOS, which is why it gets two stars instead of one.

### 2/5 — QADR says

*2016-11-26*

pros: 
free
cons: 
touch-hold-drag causes crashing.
cannot navigate folders. 
cannot sort files

### 1/5 — Doesn't export as RTF.

*2016-11-09*

Doesn't seems to be able to, at least. Tried it and it just came out as .txt. False advertising, really.

### 1/5 — ??

*2016-04-26, version 1.6.1*

Why is the app blinking? Lol

There is no back button on the text editor....  Or save icon

### 2/5 — Can't change keyboard language!

*2016-03-24*

The only useful rtf text processor program in AppStore can't work with other languages input

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Open RTF apps as blank

*2024-04-20*

I’m unclear why every single one of these apps, from any manufacturer, opens RTF apps from a server browsed over an SMB network as blank, but they do, and this one is no improvement on that. Absolutely useless.

### 1/5 — Love it but…

*2023-03-04, version 1.9.2*

Stopped working on the new IOS. Is there any way to fix this?

### 1/5 — No longer works on cloud

*2023-01-26*

I used this app for years with work documents on the cloud. I would access them with my phone in the field, and with my computer when I got home. It was great. Now with iOS 16.2 when I try to open a file on the cloud, it just crashes. It has become suddenly useless.

### 1/5 — This app is terrible

*2022-12-25*

-There's no save option anywhere.
-The app keeps randomly crashing and kicking me out. Sometimes immediately after I open it.
-App will just randomly undo all of your work on a document. I just lost 30 minutes worth of work after leaving the app for a few minutes, and this is very common. Sometimes
, it'll undo your work after crashing.

### 1/5 — App is DOA on iOS 16

*2022-11-06*

I use this app everyday. Terribly disappointing that it doesn’t work with the new iOS 16.

Please fix this app ASAP!

### 1/5 — Will not open files

*2021-05-29*

When I tryto open a file using Share, it crashes. When I try to open it from within the app I see, "Cannot communicate with a helper application".

### 1/5 — 한글 입력이 전혀 안됩니다.

*2020-08-11*

언어 전환 자체가 먹지 않습니다. 영문 전용이라고 봐야 할 듯.
사용 자체를 할 수가 없었으므로 평가도 제대로 할 수가 없군요.

### 1/5 — Terrible

*2018-12-16, version 1.9.0*

It doesn’t work!! App keeps shutting down everytime I try to open it!

### 1/5 — Garbage

*2018-09-26, version 1.9.0*

Spent all night writing notes for an exam on this app. When I woke up this morning they were all gone. Completely vanished, nothing on the cloud, nothing on the iPad, nothing in the deleted files, nothing in the search. I would have been better off scratching my notes into the wall with a spoon. I strongly recommend that you too use one of many alternatives.

### 1/5 — Don’t Bother. Even Free It’s Not Worth It

*2017-12-31*

Doesn’t open RTF files. Not sure why it was created.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Edit and Compose RTF. iCloud and Files Compatible

*2021-12-31*

I wanted a simple RTF editor and writer so I could compose and edit RTF on my iOS device. It also works with apples Files app so you can open and edit RTF files on iCloud and open them on your Mac. This app gets the job done. Sure it could use maybe a bit more polish but it still gets 5 stars from me as I really needed this to manage my RTF notes. Works perfectly.

### 5/5 — Именно то что я искал

*2021-11-11*

Редактор для работы с rtf файлами, ничего лишнего в интерфейсе, никаких подписок с ежемесячными платежами. Русский язык есть

### 5/5 — Using text edit on the Mac

*2020-12-15, version 1.9.2*

First impressions - a useful app if you are saving rtf files to iCloud and wanting to edit them on iOS or iPadOS.

### 5/5 — Works perfect!!

*2016-10-10*

Works as exactly expected! Great with iCloud!!

### 5/5 — Rare!!

*2016-07-07*

Une des très rares applis à éditer ce format, RTF. Quelques crashs parfois mais sinon rend de grands services.

### 5/5 — Good app

*2014-05-31*

This unique app is good :)

I wish you fix some bugs:
- when selecting two words wich are has different font or size, then tapping "change font" button it makes them in same size and font

- "Open In" doesnt work

My Device Info.
- Iphone 4s
- iOS 7

### 5/5 — Awesome!

*2014-05-16*

Who would have thought it would be possible to create PDF and RTF documents so quickly and effortlessly on an iOS device? I tried this for the first time today, and I really love it! I was able to update my resume, which was in RTF, right on my iPad, and convert it to PDF without any problems. I'll definitely be using this not only for school, but for all my word processing/note taking needs. The app is very straightforward. The interface is very easy to navigate. And most importantly for me as a blind user, RTF Write is completely accessible with the Voiceover screenreader! Buttons are propperly labelled, and Voiceover reads every element of the app. Way to go guys! :)

### 4/5 — Attn: those working with this 🛃

*2023-09-09*

I am a year plus into owning an iPad Air that became an iOS 12 I got my cousins neighbor an iPad Mini that is a second generation and she will be working with Blurb Inc to produce a creative nonfiction anthology featuring contributors who are able to work with programs akin to this and zWrite then their Android counterparts. I would love to see the creators of these apps work with them on this project. It sets up an interesting perspective if done well enough able to carry a 2000-2400 word range as a minimum word count then the higher range of 4000-6500 range. This works as its counterpart Mac Write on older iOS models.

Not a bad app, just needs someone who is aware of Jarte on Windows OS or Atlantis Nova to give this a much needed respect [right submission call and project to test the app.]

### 4/5 — What happened???

*2022-09-14*

Worked Great up till iOS 16 came out. Now it launches and everything is the but if I try to select to edit/copy it just blows away. Please fix. I use it all the time.

### 4/5 — Attn: those working with this 🛃

*2022-02-10, version 1.9.2*

I am a year plus into owning an iPad Air that became an iOS 12 I got my cousins neighbor an iPad Mini that is a second generation and she will be working with Blurb Inc to produce a creative nonfiction anthology featuring contributors who are able to work with programs akin to this and zWrite then their Android counterparts.  I would love to see the creators of these apps work with them on this project.  It sets up an interesting perspective if done well enough able to carry a 2000-2400 word range as a minimum word count then the higher range of 4000-6500 range.  This works as its counterpart Mac Write on older iOS models.

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