iA Writer (was iA Writer Pro) is a professional writing suite that gives you full control over your notes, drafts and edits.
- Workflow: Note – Write – Edit – Read. Each stage has a task-specific typeface and color.
- Syntax Control scans the syntax of English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish text and highlights your adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions or conjunctions.
- Precision Writing Tools
- Auto Markdown formats text on-screen — your hands stay on the keyboard
- Syntax Control introduces syntactic markup for natural language text. It covers English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Patent pending.
- Convert Markdown to Microsoft Word 2007 .docx, and back again
Features
- Workflow states
- Custom typefaces, carefully set for optimal readability
- In-app preview
- Reading time, plus sentence, word, and character count
- Real-time iCloud sync
- Ready for retina displays
- Full screen
What’s New
Version 5.1.2:
Hashtags:
- Write #tags to group files
- Use in Quick Search and Smart Folders
- All hashtags are shown in Organizer and Go menu
- Hide hashtags from Preview and PDFs in Templates preferences
- If you’re writing an article about a hashtag and want it to look like text, just put a backslash before the hash sign #TalkLikeAPirateDay
Smart Folders:
- Filter your files using a variety of rules including text searches, file extensions, hashtags, parent and ancestor paths, absolute and relative dates
- Use a custom sort order
- Automatically sync across your devices
- Get automatic keyboard shortcuts in Go menu
URL Commands:
- Updated commands to create and open documents
- Added authenticated x-callback-url commands to read and write files
- Manage URL commands in General preferences
Dark Mode on macOS 10.14:
- Updated to match system look
- System light and dark state is matched by default
- Switch to manually managing state in General preferences
Free Candy:
- Added navigation controls to Library in full screen windows
- Assign custom display names to Library Locations in Organizer
- Rename Favorites in Organizer
- Duplicate items in Library
- Go > Enclosing Folder menu
- Fixed an issue where images couldn’t be dragged to Editor from Safari, Photos, and other apps
- Added STIX 2.0 fonts for math expressions in Preview
- HTML tags are dimmed in Editor
- Hide Favorites, Smart Folders, or Hashtags sections from Organizer and Go menu in Library preferences
Fixes:
- Improved library performance and reduced memory usage
- SVG images are always displayed as pictures when used as content blocks
- Code blocks are excluded from text stats
Compatibility
OS X 10.11 or later, 64-bit processor
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