Zoho Writer User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience29.8% of reviews
Neutral13.2% of reviews
Negative experience57.0% of reviews

~ Based on 151 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Zoho Writer Safe?

Zoho Writer - Document Editor has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Zoho Writer is 60/100.

This assessment is based on 136 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.9/5.

Safety Analysis

40.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
14.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
45.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 136 App Store ratings for Zoho Writer.

Is Zoho Writer Legit?

Zoho Writer - Document Editor appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Zoho Writer is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Works well enough

The app is almost excellent but has some quirks with the fonts.
Worth owning as a backup program.

Horrible

Horrible app. It crashes frequently and often won’t even open, making it impossible to access your documents when you need them. I gave this app several chances, but it has disappointed me over and over again. Completely unreliable. Negative zero out of ten.

Useless

Company has Word documents and you can’t access them. Customer sends Word documents and you can’t read those. Useless.

Excellent and user friendly application

Very easy to navigate and downloading to it from other apps

Super

Je suis surprises des commentaires moyens sur cette application alors qu’elle est géniale ! Il y a peut être eu des mis à jour depuis mais en tout cas elle marche parfaitement et est gratuite. Pour écrire c’est super, y’a le conteur de mots, on peut modifier les couleurs d’à peu près tout, après en avoir testé plusieurs c’est la meilleure !
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Right time of shifting from Microsoft or Google WorkSpace to ZOHO

I genuinely want to support an Indian workspace solution, and that’s why I tried Zoho. However, Zoho Workspace is still far behind Google Workspace in core features and user experience.

Zoho Writer lacks advanced functionality and smooth collaboration compared to Google Docs. Zoho Drive’s interface and usability also do not match Google Drive standards.

Right now, this is a 1/5 experience for me — not because I dislike Zoho, but because the product is not yet competitive at a global level.

If Zoho truly aims to compete with Google Workspace, please provide a clear roadmap and a concrete deadline for achieving feature parity, especially in Writer and Drive.

I want to switch. But I need confidence that serious improvements are coming — with timelines.
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mobiles beschreiben schwierig

ich bin seit neustem auf zoho writer umgestiegen, um eine simple, KI-freie und schnelle lösung zu haben, die mir nicht an jeder ecke ein abo für "Premium Features" andrehen will. grundsätzlich ist die app auch genau das, was ich wollte; mein einziges Problem ist, dass kontinuierliches Bearbeiten EINFACH NICHT FUNKTIONIERT. sobald ich bearbeiten drücke und losschreibe, ist meine tastatur innerhalb von drei sekunden wieder weg und das bearbeiten wieder beendet. sogar mitten im schreibefluss macht es davor nicht halt. wirklich ärgerlich, wenn man mehr als einen buchstaben zur zeit schreiben möchte. bitte bitte fixen, dann bin ich absolut happy mit der app!!
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Desktop is way better

This app is horrible by comparison to the desktop version. It’s barely usable and has a terrible UI. please update this Zoho!!!

Update Failed

“An error occurred while updating the app. You can use the app only after the error is rectified. Please contact the support team.” Consider yourself contacted. Not much better than the web anyways

App glitches

Really glitchy. I downloaded this as a substitute to Google Docs as my Google account expired, but this has very limited editing. I have to copy and paste from other places to get what I want, and every time I try typing, it either doesn’t work or the keyboard goes away. Haven’t tried the browser version yet, but I wouldn’t recommend the app. I also can’t find the ways to change text size, font, and format, so I am stuck with whatever happens when I paste it in. Really wouldn’t recommend the app.
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Best indian replacement

Best and affordable

iOS fonts access.

Access to iOS fonts must be enabled. Default font are less attractive. Apart from this font size customisation, paragraph formatting, super script sub script and renaming like features are to be added in this application.

Please fix this

I used to love this app because it would allow me to reread and review lengthy documents from the comfort of my cell phone. After the last update three weeks ago it now lags and crashes when I try to open larger documents. Help please!

App crashes a lot not working good on ipad, on iphone its better than ipad

App crashes a lot of times

Table not editing

After pasting a table from Zoho Sheet, the table can’t be edited. It doesn’t appear the same way as it does in Zoho Sheet — instead, it comes in a single line. How has Zoho not noticed this issue yet? I request you to fix this in the next update. Once this is resolved, the Zoho app will become even more popular than Word.
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Online storage support

Please add support for online storage like Dropbox, Google drive

Good one

Can it fetch cloud files from Dropbox, iCloud etc as well as save it back?

Stuck at setup workspace screen.

Hey zoho,
After login, i am getting screen where i am asking for set zoho work drive.
Can anyone help me!

Not What is Should be

This app allows you do work offline but that is all it does. If you need to the formatting features in the online version, they are not there AT ALL. So unless you want to use it as a very basic notebook, this will not do what you want. Very disappointed with the lack of feature available. I hope they work on this soon to improve it. I need an offline version of this to incorporate this product as part of my companies ecosystem.
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Not great

Has not worked for me for close to a month. I try to open the app but it says the update failed and I need to contact support. My app is up to date.