In late 2023, we launched Authorship to keep writers one step ahead of generative-AI writing workflows. We immediately heard from users itching to have the feature added in Writer for Windows too. Today we’re delivering on our most popular feature request for Windows.

Authorship1 shows where text came from. It highlights the difference between what you felt, thought, and typed, and what you quoted, borrowed, or generated. It also shows what changed as you edit a document.2

Writing improves through collaboration with sources, editors, friends, and first readers. But the more hands touch a text, the harder it gets to track who said what. In the age of LLM-assisted writing, tools that distinguish your words from borrowed or generated text matter more than ever.

Performance and UI

The latest update iA Writer for Windows delivers a substantial performance boost with greatly reduced startup time. It is almost twice as fast now. Allowing users to launch and start writing as quickly as possible is key for a good writing experience.

We’ve also improved library loading performance and made a number of under-the-hood changes that pave the way for further speed improvements.

Alongside UI changes for Authorship, Writer for Windows features an improved Editor experience. User selectable highlighting colors, previously an Apple exclusive, is now fully supported on Windows. We’ve improved the UI used for contextual menu items.

New Account System

When you launch Writer for Windows 2.1 for the first time, you’ll see the new iA Account sign-in. Simply enter your email and the one-time six-digit code and you’re writing. No more scouring the bottom of your inbox for license keys. No more emails to Support for resets or to have your key sent for the fifth time. Your iA Account is your key, not just for Writer, but soon for all our apps.

Welcome to Writer sign in screen
iA Account dashboard showing user's product portfolio

Free Upgrade

If you own iA Writer for Windows already, Version 2.1 is a free upgrade. It is available for sale now and you can sign in with the email you previously gave us. New to Writer? Click to get a free trial.

  1. What is an author? Author comes from Lat. augere, meaning to grow. An author is literally who (or, as we need to underline these days, what) makes a text grow. If we publish words we neither felt nor thought, we ask others to make sense what we were too lazy to understand. The basis for honest communication is that as authors we clearly see what we grew and what we borrowed. ↩︎

  2. Read our launch article on Authorship and our colorful update one year later. ↩︎