The simple, award-winning design of iA Writer delivers the essential writing experience. Used by half a million people worldwide, its minimal interface is crafted to cut out noise. It’s just you, your thoughts, and the words on the page. IA Writer 5.5.2 MAS + iCloud is a professional writing suite that gives you full control over your notes, drafts and edits. Unmatched Writing Experience. IA Writer is designed to provide the best digital writing experience: Keep your hands on the keyboard and your mind in the text. Swipe Right to Library. IA Writer now comes with an integrated. This might sound odd because iA Writer isn’t a word processor. It is a simple text editor app that runs on both iOS and MacOS. I have installed it on my MacBook, iPad and iPhone. Late last year the software was updated to version 5.2. While iA Writer was already my favourite writing tool, the newest version makes for a better experience.
I’ve been looking for a serious writing program. Maybe serious isn’t the right word, because I use Vim and BBEdit, and those are nothing if not serious. But they don’t feel right for the type of concentrated, long-form prose that I am trying to write. The contenders that I settled on are iA Writer and Ulysses.
Both are great, and I would recommend either. Choosing between them is more about your personal preferences, workflow, and writing needs. My observations based on my particular needs are below.
You should also check out the comparison by Marius Masalar.
Comparison
This is not comprehensive, just a few things that happen to be important to me.
Post to WordPress
Ulysses posts to self-hosted WordPress installations.
iA Writer requires Jetpack for self-hosted WordPress.
I have no desire to install Jetpack, so this is a drawback to iA Writer. Ulysses works exactly the way I want it to.
Update: Starting with iA Writer 5.5, WordPress posting on personal sites has been improved.
File Management
iA Writer works on files. Ulysses works on “sheets,” a file abstraction that lives in a database owned by the application.
Both approaches have their advantages. iA Writer’s advantages:
- The files are searchable with Spotlight. Using Finder to search for things will reveal your iA Writer files just as well as searching within iA Writer.
- The files are portable. It is easy and immediate to edit the files in another program. I can use BBEdit or Vim to open a file I created in iA Writer without having to export.
- I can keep the files in a git repository. iCloud probably serves most writers’ needs, but if you’re a git user, having your history in a repository is reassuring.
The downside is that I am doing my own file management. I have to decide what to name a new document. I have to decide where to save my file. These little decisions can slow me down.
By contrast, Ulysses works with a container that manages the files for me. The benefit of this is that no file name or folder location is required when I create a file (or “sheet”). Just ⌘N and I’m ready to write.
It also easy to compose a work of many sheets. It lets me think in sentences and paragraphs instead of files. I can combine sheets, rearrange their order, “glue” sheets together, and split them apart. It’s more flexible and useful than iA Writer’s “content blocks.”
Fonts and Appearance
Ulysses has a very detailed preference pane to customize every element of my Markdown syntax. I can create themes, and I can use themes created by others. Ulysses comes with a solarized theme, so I picked that. Then I noticed that there is another solarized theme: slightly different and more in line with what markdown looks in MacVim. So I changed to that. After a while, that started to feel garish, so I switched to a theme that mimics Editorial. This was great. But now that theme is starting to look a little…I don’t know…too subdued, maybe. I’ll find something I like if I keep looking. If not, there’s a way to create custom theme styles…
iA Writer looks great. There is a setting for light or dark. There is a font setting with three choices. I picked the one I like and haven’t given it much thought since. I feel none of the theme malaise that Ulysses makes me feel.
Markdown
iA Writer is straight markdown, more or less. More textual than Ulysses, anyway. That is, a link in iA Writer looks exactly like you would expect:
Ulysses has clever little additions that make it less textual and more graphical. The target URL is not listed in the source view. If you double-click on the link text, a little inspector window opens to show the target link. It’s very well done, but I feel the textual nature of markdown is a benefit, and Ulysses loses that.
Share Extension
Ulysses has a (poor) Safari share icon. It can paste a web site title and URL, and that’s about it. It is no match for Bear or Keep It.
iA Writer has no service or share extension.
(Preliminary) Decision
I like iA Writer better. Even though Ulysses does have real advantages, iA Writer just feels better. I like the fonts and the built-in preview styles. I like the more standard, textual markdown source. I like the options for previewing the rendered markdown.
The file handling goes both ways. I can totally get behind Ulysses’ philosophy, but I like having my content indexed in Spotlight.
I love that Ulysses can post directly to my WordPress blog. I get around this iA Writer deficiency by using Byword to open the file created by iA Writer and posting from there. This workaround may become tiresome, but for now it works.
This comes down largely to aesthetics and intangible preferences.
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Potential Game Changers
These are things that might tip my decision the other way, after more time using them.
- WordPress posting. Ulysses just does WordPress posting the way I want.
- File management. I can see myself coming to prefer Ulysses’ style after a spending more time with both.
- Writing Goals. Ulysses can track writing goals, both daily, and set per sheet.
Non-issues
iA Writer has a feature that will highlight words based on parts of speech (nouns, verbs, etc.). I don’t find this useful.
Many are outraged by the subscription pricing of Ulysses. It doesn’t bother me. It is useful how a single subscription gives me access to macOS and iOS versions of the app. Textual 7 0 9 – lightweight irc clients. If I start writing more with my my iPad, this might be useful.
Recommendation
My recommendation is that you can’t decide, get both. You can get a week’s trial of both. If that isn’t enough time, just buy iA Writer, and buy a monthly subscription to Ulysses. Give yourself a couple of months to settle into them both. One will reveal itself as your favorite.
This is what I’m doing. I prefer iA Writer, but Ulysses has clear advantages. I want to live with both and see which feels better over the long term. There might be drawbacks to iA Writer that get annoying only over time. When I make a final decision, I’ll post an update.
iA Writer提供了独特的“无干扰模式”,该模式隐藏了一切可能对写作造成干扰的界面元素,只留下一张白纸、一个键盘,以及右上角灰色的“小锁头”(这是 用来退出无干扰模式的),而且只高亮显示正在编辑的几行文字,其余的文字会淡化处理,想来也是为了最大程度的让写字者集中注意力于当前的文字。
iA Writer 5.2.3 Mac 破解版 介绍
iA Writer提供了独特的“无干扰模式”,该模式隐藏了一切可能对写作造成干扰的界面元素,只留下一张白纸、一个键盘,以及右上角灰色的“小锁头”(这是 用来退出无干扰模式的),而且只高亮显示正在编辑的几行文字,其余的文字会淡化处理,想来也是为了最大程度的让写字者集中注意力于当前的文字。这个模式考 虑的非常周到,甚至禁用了手指点击移动光标的功能,我想这是为了避免不小心接触到屏幕而导致光标移动到错误的位置,这个想法我能理解,但实际使用中,还是 常常感到不便。
iA Writer Pro for Mac 是 iA Writer 的进化版,它有以下几个特征:
专注写作,比如没有其他的复杂按钮,比如会高亮当前在写的句子,会自动隐去几行之前的文字。让文字工作者注意力集中在在写的东西上
Pro版本出来的模式功能,可以提供“阅读” “注释” 和 “写作”三个模式。看样子应该是和作家用户深度沟通过,知道作家们在写作的不同情境下的不同需求
Pro版本还有个功能叫做词性高亮——你可以选择高亮整个句子,高亮文章中所有的动词,或所有的形容词、副词、连词等等。我猜测这个功能是给作家润色的时候用的,是推还是敲呢?先把所有动词高亮出来再说!
iA Writer是一个专业的写作套件,它能让你完全控制你的笔记、草稿和编辑。
工作流程:注-写-编辑-阅读。每个阶段都有特定于任务的字体和颜色。
语法控制扫描英语、法语、德语、意大利语和西班牙语的语法,并突出你的形容词、名词、动词、副词、介词或连词。
精密书写工具:
自动标记在屏幕上显示文本——你的手停留在键盘上。
语法控制引入了自然语言文本的语法标记。它包括英语、法语、德语、意大利语和西班牙语。专利申请中。
将Markdown转换为Microsoft Word 2007 .docx,然后再返回。
特性
工作流状态
定制的字体,精心设置为最优的可读性。
Spacious 2 0 download free. 应用内预览
阅读时间,加上句子,单词和字符数。
实时iCloud同步
准备视网膜显示
全屏
What’s New in iA Writer
Version 5.2.3:
This update fixes a few small bugs.
Version 5.2.1:
New Features:
New typeface in three flavors
Mono: Single character width, the classic
Duo: Two widths, freeing M and W
Quattro: Four widths, for a cleaner text image
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Over 1,000 optical variations seamlessly adapt to provide the best writing experience in any environment
14 text sizes in Editor and Preview
Many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typography improvements, including emphasis dots
Bold, italic, and strikethrough commands are much more reliable and work inside words
High quality math equation typesetting in Preview using KaTeX
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Library Locations:
Now support Desktop & Documents in iCloud
Can be added from anywhere in iCloud Drive
Fully-Featured Export to Microsoft Word:
Rebuilt from the ground up
Compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 or newer, Apple Pages, and Google Docs
Dxo filmpack 5 1 5 download free. Supports local images, footnotes, citations, page breaks, tables, math, headings, unordered lists, ordered lists, task lists, definition lists, blockquotes, bold, italic, CJK emphasis, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, links, horizontal rules, code
Other Improvements:
Added visible filename when switching between tabs with hidden title bar
Copy URL command to open files from menu in Library
Command-Click links in Editor
Use to exclude words from searches: -microsoft word
Inline code command
Typing suggestions can be enabled in Touch Bar
Korean and Russian localizations
Added help articles
Better hashtag detection
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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
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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
Ia Writer 5 2 2016
SVG images are always displayed as pictures when used as content blocks
Code blocks are excluded from text stats