Stats

iA Writer for Mac provides comprehensive statistics on your document, including character, sentence or task counts, and estimated reading time.

These comprehensive statistics will help you monitor your writing progress, which is particularly valuable for writers paid per word, or those eager to take part in writing challenges like the ones from NYC Midnight.

How To Display The Stats

The document’s stats are displayed in the Toolbar found at the bottom of the Editor. The Toolbar has three possible states:

• Fade In/Out
• Always Show
• Hide

If you do not see the Toolbar on the Editor, go change its settings in the menu View → Toolbar

In the same menu View, you can choose how to display the stats in the Toolbar: either on the right corner (Default), or having the Toolbar filled with Stats Only.

Default

The statistics will appear in the right corner of the Toolbar, along with the regular quick actions (bold, headings, tables, etc.). Among the various options for stats, only one will be visible.

If you want to switch the displayed stat, simply click on the currently shown one to expand a list of other available stats. Then, click on the desired stat to have it displayed at all times.

Stats Only

If you select Stats Only instead of Default, the whole toolbar will be used to display the statistics.

If you do not want to see all the statistics, right-click anywhere in the Toolbar, and hover over Stats Only to show the list of available options. Select the stats you want to see and deselect those you’d like to hide.

Text Selection

The statistics adapt to the selected text range. If no text is selected, the stats for the entire document will be displayed. When some text is selected, the stats for that range will be shown.

Editor

Authorship

Highlight the text you craft yourself and keep track of your sources, artificial or natural.

Focus Mode

Shut down distractions. Focus on the sentence or paragraph you're currently working on.

Style Check

A personal editor-in-chief on your device, carefully reviewing your text for redundancies, clichés, and filler words.

Syntax Highlight

A more structured view of your document will help you improve your writing style.

Metadata

A simple key-value format for storing additional information about a document, only visible in the Editor.

Smart Automation

Auto text completion and transformation: focus on your writing, without getting bogged down by minor details.