Get focused. iA Writer offers a unique writing experience that lets you concentrate and clarify your message. Used by half a million people worldwide, its powerful interface is crafted to cut out noise, let you focus on what you want to say, and help you structure and trim your text. Available for Mac, iOS, Windows, and Android.

# What is iA Writer?

It can be used without reading long manuals. Just open the app and start typing. Introduced with the original iA Writer in 2010, **Focus Mode** blinds everything out except the sentence or paragraph you are working on.| Write one sentence or paragraph at a time. When you said what you feel, edit. We have you covered there as well.

Simple and Powerful

No rulers, no formatting bars. iA Writer provides the crisp, uncluttered environment you need to write well, supported by discrete, powerful features, from Content Blocks, to Syntax Highlighting.

Focus and Flow

Focus is the key to good writing, and the guiding principle behind iA Writer. With shortcuts and simplified settings, you can keep your hands on the keyboard and your mind in the text.

Ownership and Control

We think every craftsperson should own their own tools, so when you download iA Writer, you own it. No forced subscriptions, microtransactions, or compatibility concerns. Your work, your files, your app.

Available for Mac, iOS, Windows, and Android. Full-featured trials available! Trial periods are listed below each app.

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iOS

iOS&iPadOS
$29.99 App Store →
No Free Trial

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Win

Every app is purchased separately. There are educational discounts and discounts for purchases over 20 apps. The app will prompt you when the trial expires.

Powerhouse. iA Writer is so simple, it’s easy to overlook the wealth of features packed under the hood, from Focus Mode to MS Word export, and PDF-Preview.

# Why Colors?

Syntax Highlight shows parts of speech in different colors. This helps you eliminating superfluous adjectives, spotting weak verbs, and unwanted repetitions. Highlighting syntax provides you with a more structured view on your text, and it helps you spot typos, patterns and structural errors.|

Hack Your Syntax

Highlight parts of speech to improve your writing. Spot superfluous adjectives, weak verbs, and unwanted repetitions. Developers have long used syntax highlighting to improve their code. Now you can hack your text.

Power of Style Check

Style Check is like having a personal editor-in-chief on your device, carefully reviewing your text for redundancies, clichés and filler words as you type. It’s simple, different, and powerful.

The Original Focus Mode

Focus only on the sentence or paragraph that you’re working on. Introduced in 2010 with the original iA Writer, Focus Mode has since been copied by many writing apps. This is the original, and still (we think) the best.

Flexible Content Blocks

Swap sections around, add media, and construct your content with flexible building blocks of text, .csv tables and image files. Stitch separate chapters together into one master file. Express yourself through experimentation.

Optimized Typeface

We have created an innovative typeface for iA Writer, specifically designed to enhance the writing experience. The family comes in three flavors: classic Mono, Duo for larger screens, and Quattro for small devices.

Parallel PDF Preview

iA Writer now offers a live, paginated PDF preview, parallel to the text you are editing. Instantly see how your document translates into PDF pages, as you edit.

Advanced Markdown to Word Export

iA Writer features one of the most advanced Markdown-to-Word export functions available anywhere. Quickly export your Markdown documents to MS Word (and back too!). Includes support for tables, images and footnotes.

# Improve Style

Unlike your high-school language teacher, Style Check doesn’t ~~actually~~ tell you what is right. It grays out superfluous words and ~~just~~ strikes them through hypothetically, so ~~at the end of the day~~ you can see how your text will flow with them removed. A double tap/click on a struck through word or phrase will ~~so to say~~ select it for easy removal. It’s ~~completely~~ up to you which ones you remove and which ones you ~~effectively~~ keep.|

Working hard to keep it minimal. We constantly improve and simplify iA Writer, expand its flexibility and fix occurring issues. See all updates

Markdown in Academic Writing

6.1.2021

A piece of writing aiming to be academic must be 'clear, concise, focused, structured and backed up by evidence'. We believe that Markdown writing tools make it easier to focus on content and thus support the main aim of academic writing. iA Writer has a couple of tricks up its sleeves that other apps do not. →

After all, everyone is distracted once in a while

5.12.2021

These days we all fight to stay focused. People with ADHD are specialists on the matter. We asked you to share your experiences with iA Writer. Answers revolved around the topics of distractions and the ability to focus, which are key concerns of the attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Let's see how iA Writer helps you tackle the challenges of writing as explained by users with ADHD. Their insights can help us all. →

Style Check on Android

3.29.2021

After its launch on Mac and iOS last summer and its recent introduction to Windows, Style Check has arrived on Android with version 2.1 of iA Writer. It has been one of our best received and most requested features, therefore we worked hard to make it available for all platforms. →

Apple AppStore App of the Year 2011, 2012, and 2013. MacStories App of the Year 2019. We win prizes. But what really makes us happy are the notes we get from writers worldwide.

“iA Writer creates a clean, simple and distraction-free writing environment…”

“Write more clearly with a syntax feature that highlights adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs...”

“An example of how powerful simplicity and accessibility can be…”

“iA Writer is all about textual production – writing this phrase, this sentence, this word, at this moment.”

“… a clean and distraction-free environment… a plain text editor for Markdown aficionados.”

“The very best developers can create for Apple’s platforms in 2019.”