iA Writer vs GoalLane

“Leaving life’s mess for an ideal realm of words.” —The New Yorker “My favorite iOS app for writing in Markdown, without question, is iA Writer. iA Writer is just beautiful. To me, it’s the gold standard for Markdown syntax styling... an elegant champagne flute. That’s iA Writer for me.” —John Gruber “iA Writer creates a clean, simple and distraction-free writing environment for when you really need to focus on your words.” —The New York Times “iA Writer is an example of how powerful simplicity and accessibility can be.” —The Guardian “iA Writer is all about textual production—writing this phrase, this sentence, this word at this moment.” —WIRED 4 x Best of App Store Winner # The Simple Writing App iA Writer removes distractions. Giving you a calm, focused, writing space, so you can express yourself clearly. # Focus Focus Mode dims everything but the current sentence or paragraph, helping you stay in the flow. # Start Don’t worry about the format. First, write in plain text. Then preview in HTML. # Organize Search, sort, and quickly swap between documents from different clouds. # Customize When you tap and hold a key in the command keyboard, you’re given the chance to choose your own layout. Rearrange your keys, or pick new ones from the extensive list. # Search You can open documents and launch frequent actions in no time with the new Quick Search. It lives in the keyboard so it’s always close at hand. # Work iA Writer includes an inverted light-on-dark-mode, perfect for working day and night. # Clean Spot superfluous adjectives, weak verbs, repetitive nouns, false conjunctions and clean your text of the usual rumble. # Shape Customize your templates and export to WordPress or Medium, HTML, Microsoft Word (.docx), or PDF. # 100% Text Embed links, pictures, tables and text files in plain text and see them in preview. # Get in Touch - Visit ia.net/writer for more information - Visit ia.net/writer/support for support and feedback

Start with the finish, not an endless task list. GoalLane is a personal planner for clear, short-term goals. Define the result you want and when it should be ready, then add the concrete steps that will take you there. Every task belongs to a goal, so today’s work always has a direction. See one path across your active goals: • plan steps by day • see today’s workload and available capacity • spot an overloaded day before promising too much • optionally keep no more than three goals active at once • receive one daily briefing at the time you choose • revisit completed goals and their full step history in the archive Private by design: • no account, advertising, analytics, or app server • keep data only on this iPhone or sync privately through your personal iCloud • protect the app with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode • export and import a portable JSON backup • keep planning with the local copy when you are offline GoalLane does not turn your life into a scoreboard. It helps you choose a finish, make the route realistic, and take the next useful step. Important: data stored only on this iPhone is removed if you delete the app unless you have exported a backup. iCloud sync also syncs deletions and is not a separate backup.