Get focused. 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.

# 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 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.

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. Export Markdown tables, images, and footnotes to Microsoft Word and back.

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

Style Check on Windows, Big Sur Support, and Next Steps for Android

12.21.2020

iA Writer for Windows 1.4 is now available and it brings Style Check in a free update. We launched Style Check on Mac and iOS this past summer and we have never received so much praise for a new feature. You sent us request after request to bring it to other platforms. We doubled our efforts to bring it to other platforms as soon as possible. It's ready for Windows as of today. We are working on bringing it to Android next. →

Introducing Style Check

7.12.2020

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. →

Syntax Control, Individual Scroll, Snippets

7.1.2020

iA Writer for Windows 1.3 is the biggest update the platform has ever seen. It's available to download right now and comes as a free update for existing users. →

# Why Colors?

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.|

Apple AppStore App of the Year 2011, 2012, and 2013. MacStories App of the Year 2019. We win prizes. But what really make 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.”