Style Check for Mac is like having a personal editor-in-chief on your device, carefully reviewing your text for redundancies, clichés, and filler words as you type.
Important points about this feature:
only you see words being crossed out (the strikethrough mark won’t appear in Preview or Export)
no deletions occur unless you choose to do them
your text stays private and on your device (not sent to an internet service for review)
there is no AI and it doesn’t steal your texts
Style Check is currently available for English, French, Spanish and German. It will cross out:
Fillers (basically, pretty much, sort of)
Redundancies (basic fundamentals, combine together, fall down)
Clichés (against all odds, brass tacks, long and short of it)
For more details about Style Check, you can read our introduction blog post The Power of Style Check or check our quick tour on YouTube:
Enable Style Check
You can enable/ disable Style Check from:
the Menu Bar Focus → Enable/ Disable Style Check
the shortcut ⌥⇧⌘D
the Navigation Bar
You can fully enable Style Check (including fillers, redundancies, clichés, and custom patterns) or just some of them:
We spent a lot of time developing this feature and we are still improving it regularly.
However, our users might feel the need to customize Style Check regarding their writing style. This is where Custom Patterns shines.
Custom Patterns
Custom patterns allow you to create exceptions or new rules to Style Check, to better fit your style.
To create a custom pattern, go to Settings → Editor → Custom Patterns
Below is an example of when adding an exception allowing the filler “as well as”:
Custom Patterns Syntax
For your information, here is the syntax for customizing Style Check with Custom Patterns. You won’t need to remember it as you can find all of these in the Help Section of iA Writer.
Add a Rule
filler
custom ~~filler~~
Provide an Exception
Exceptions affect both custom and built-in patterns.
-filler
-custom ~~filler~~ exception
Regular Expressions
You can use regular expressions by enclosing a pattern in slashes:
Does not repeat if the character class contains more than 10 characters
Negated [^a]
Ignored
Optional a?
Supported
Escaped \.
Supported
a*b+c{2,}d{3,15}
Limited to 10 repetitions
Lazy matches
Undefined behavior
Greedy matches
Undefined behavior
Alternation |
Supported
Octal characters \0ooo
Supported
Any character .
Ignored
Word character \w
Undefined behavior
Non-word character \W
Undefined behavior
Anchors ^$\b\B\A\Z\z\G
Supported
Capturing parentheses (…)
Supported
Backreferences \1
Supported
Named capture groups (?<name>…)
Supported
Named backreferences \k<name>
Supported
Non-capturing parentheses (?:…)
Supported
Comments (?#…)
Supported
Lookahead (?=…)
Ignored
Negative lookahead (?!…)
Ignored
Lookbehind (?<=…)
Ignored
Negative lookbehind (?<!…)
Ignored
Atomic match (?>…)
Non-capturing parentheses
Expression modifiers (?id-id:…)
Ignored
Mode modifiers (?id-id)
Ignored
Modifiers /…/id-id
Supported
Modifiers
Notes
Case insensitive matching i
On by default
Diacritic insensitive matching d
Off by default
Note that only a subset of regular expression features is supported to avoid slowing down editing.
Style Check for iOS is like having a personal editor-in-chief on your device, carefully reviewing your text for redundancies, clichés, and filler words as you type.
Important points about this feature:
only you see words being crossed out (the strikethrough mark won’t appear in Preview or Export)
no deletions occur unless you choose to do them
your text stay private and on your device (not sent to an internet service for review)
there is no AI and it doesn’t steal your texts
Style Check is currently available for English, French, Spanish and German. It will cross out:
fillers (basically, pretty much, sort of)
redundancies (basic fundamentals, combine together, fall down)
clichés (against all odds, brass tacks, long and short of it)
For more details about Style Check, you can read this introduction blogpost: The Power of Style Check.
the lightning menu (configure the menu by adding Style Check as an action)
the Navigation Bar AA → Enable/ Disable Style Check
You can fully enable Style Check (including fillers, redundancies, clichés, and custom patterns) or just some of them:
We spent a lot of time developing this feature and we are still improving it regularly. However, our users might feel the need to customize Style Check regarding their own writing style. This is where Custom Patterns shines.
Custom Patterns
Custom patterns allow you to create exceptions or new rules to Style Check, to better fit your style.
To create a custom pattern, go to Library → ⚙️ /Settings → Editor → Style Check → Custom Patterns
Below is an example of when adding an exception allowing the filler “as well as”:
Custom Patterns Syntax
For your information, here is the syntax for customizing Style Check with Custom Patterns. You won’t need to remember it as you can find all of these in the Help Section of iA Writer.
Add a Rule
filler
custom ~~filler~~
Provide an Exception
Exceptions affect both custom and built-in patterns.
-filler
-custom ~~filler~~ exception
Regular Expressions
You can use regular expressions by enclosing a pattern in slashes:
Does not repeat if the character class contains more than 10 characters
Negated [^a]
Ignored
Optional a?
Supported
Escaped \.
Supported
a*b+c{2,}d{3,15}
Limited to 10 repetitions
Lazy matches
Undefined behavior
Greedy matches
Undefined behavior
Alternation |
Supported
Octal characters \0ooo
Supported
Any character .
Ignored
Word character \w
Undefined behavior
Non-word character \W
Undefined behavior
Anchors ^$\b\B\A\Z\z\G
Supported
Capturing parentheses (…)
Supported
Backreferences \1
Supported
Named capture groups (?<name>…)
Supported
Named backreferences \k<name>
Supported
Non-capturing parentheses (?:…)
Supported
Comments (?#…)
Supported
Lookahead (?=…)
Ignored
Negative lookahead (?!…)
Ignored
Lookbehind (?<=…)
Ignored
Negative lookbehind (?<!…)
Ignored
Atomic match (?>…)
Non-capturing parentheses
Expression modifiers (?id-id:…)
Ignored
Mode modifiers (?id-id)
Ignored
Modifiers /…/id-id
Supported
Modifiers
Notes
Case insensitive matching i
On by default
Diacritic insensitive matching d
Off by default
Note that only a subset of regular expression features is supported to avoid slowing down editing.
Style Check for iPadOS is like having a personal editor-in-chief on your device, carefully reviewing your text for redundancies, clichés, and filler words as you type.
Important points about this feature:
only you see words being crossed out (the strikethrough mark won’t appear in Preview or Export)
no deletions occur unless you choose to do them
your text stay private and on your device (not sent to an internet service for review)
there is no AI and it doesn’t steal your texts
Style Check is currently available for English, French, Spanish and German. It will cross out:
fillers (basically, pretty much, sort of)
redundancies (basic fundamentals, combine together, fall down)
clichés (against all odds, brass tacks, long and short of it)
For more details about Style Check, you can read this introduction blogpost: The Power of Style Check.
the lightning menu (configure the menu by adding Style Check as an action)
the shortcut ⌥⇧⌘D
the Navigation Bar AA → Enable/ Disable Style Check
You can fully enable Style Check (including fillers, redundancies, clichés, and custom patterns) or just some of them:
We spent a lot of time developing this feature and we are still improving it regularly. However, our users might feel the need to customize Style Check regarding their own writing style. This is where Custom Patterns shines.
Custom Patterns
Custom patterns allow you to create exceptions or new rules to Style Check, to better fit your style.
To create a custom pattern, go to Library → ⚙️ /Settings → Editor → Style Check → Custom Patterns
Below is an example of when adding an exception allowing the filler “as well as”:
Custom Patterns Syntax
For your information, here is the syntax for customizing Style Check with Custom Patterns. You won’t need to remember it as you can find all of these in the Help Section of iA Writer.
Add a Rule
filler
custom ~~filler~~
Provide an Exception
Exceptions affect both custom and built-in patterns.
-filler
-custom ~~filler~~ exception
Regular Expressions
You can use regular expressions by enclosing a pattern in slashes:
Does not repeat if the character class contains more than 10 characters
Negated [^a]
Ignored
Optional a?
Supported
Escaped \.
Supported
a*b+c{2,}d{3,15}
Limited to 10 repetitions
Lazy matches
Undefined behavior
Greedy matches
Undefined behavior
Alternation |
Supported
Octal characters \0ooo
Supported
Any character .
Ignored
Word character \w
Undefined behavior
Non-word character \W
Undefined behavior
Anchors ^$\b\B\A\Z\z\G
Supported
Capturing parentheses (…)
Supported
Backreferences \1
Supported
Named capture groups (?<name>…)
Supported
Named backreferences \k<name>
Supported
Non-capturing parentheses (?:…)
Supported
Comments (?#…)
Supported
Lookahead (?=…)
Ignored
Negative lookahead (?!…)
Ignored
Lookbehind (?<=…)
Ignored
Negative lookbehind (?<!…)
Ignored
Atomic match (?>…)
Non-capturing parentheses
Expression modifiers (?id-id:…)
Ignored
Mode modifiers (?id-id)
Ignored
Modifiers /…/id-id
Supported
Modifiers
Notes
Case insensitive matching i
On by default
Diacritic insensitive matching d
Off by default
Note that only a subset of regular expression features is supported to avoid slowing down editing.
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Style Check for Android is like having a personal editor-in-chief on your device, carefully reviewing your text for redundancies, clichés, and filler words as you type.
Important points about this feature:
only you see words being crossed out (the strikethrough mark won’t appear in Preview or Export)
no deletions occur unless you choose to do them
your text stay private and on your device (not sent to an internet service for review)
there is no AI and it doesn’t steal your texts
Style Check is currently available for English, French, and German. It will cross out:
fillers (basically, pretty much, sort of)
redundancies (basic fundamentals, combine together, fall down)
clichés (against all odds, brass tacks, long and short of it)
For more details about Style Check, you can read this introduction blogpost: The Power of Style Check.
Enable Style Check
To enable/ disable Style Check:
stay in the Editor mode
tap the 3 dots on the top-right ⋮ → Style Check
You can fully enable Style Check including:
fillers
redundancies
clichés
custom (see below)
or just some of them.
We spent a lot of time developing this feature and we are still improving it regularly.
However, our users might feel the need to customize Style Check regarding their own writing style. This is where Custom Patterns shines.
Custom Patterns
Custom patterns allow you to create exceptions or new rules to Style Check, to better fit your style.
To create a custom pattern, go to Settings → Style Check → Custom Patterns
Below is an example of when adding an exception allowing the filler “as well as”:
Custom Patterns Syntax
For your information, here is the syntax for customizing Style Check with Custom Patterns. You won’t need to remember it as you can find all of these in the Help Section of Custom Patterns.
Add a Rule
filler
custom ~~filler~~
Provide an Exception
Exceptions affect both custom and built-in patterns.
-filler
-custom ~~filler~~ exception
Regular Expressions
You can use regular expressions by enclosing a pattern in slashes:
Does not repeat if the character class contains more than 10 characters
Negated [^a]
Ignored
Optional a?
Supported
Escaped \.
Supported
a*b+c{2,}d{3,15}
Limited to 10 repetitions
Lazy matches
Undefined behavior
Greedy matches
Undefined behavior
Alternation |
Supported
Octal characters \0ooo
Supported
Any character .
Ignored
Word character \w
Undefined behavior
Non-word character \W
Undefined behavior
Anchors ^$\b\B\A\Z\z\G
Supported
Capturing parentheses (…)
Supported
Backreferences \1
Supported
Named capture groups (?<name>…)
Supported
Named backreferences \k<name>
Supported
Non-capturing parentheses (?:…)
Supported
Comments (?#…)
Supported
Lookahead (?=…)
Ignored
Negative lookahead (?!…)
Ignored
Lookbehind (?<=…)
Ignored
Negative lookbehind (?<!…)
Ignored
Atomic match (?>…)
Non-capturing parentheses
Expression modifiers (?id-id:…)
Ignored
Mode modifiers (?id-id)
Ignored
Modifiers /…/id-id
Supported
Modifiers
Notes
Case insensitive matching i
On by default
Diacritic insensitive matching d
Off by default
Note that only a subset of regular expression features is supported to avoid slowing down editing.
Style Check for Windows is like having a personal editor-in-chief on your device, carefully reviewing your text for redundancies, clichés, and filler words as you type.
Important points about this feature:
only you see words being crossed out (the striken text won’t appear in Preview or export)
no deletions occur unless you choose to manually remove/replace suggestions
your text stays private and on your device (never sent to an internet service for review)
there is no AI and it doesn’t steal your texts
Style Check is currently available for English, French, and German. It will cross out:
fillers (basically, pretty much, sort of)
redundancies (basic fundamentals, combine together, fall down)
clichés (against all odds, brass tacks, long and short of it)
For more details about Style Check, you can read this introduction blogpost: The Power of Style Check.
Enable Style Check
Style Check settings are found found in the Focus menu.
You can fully enable Style Check (including fillers, redundancies, clichés, and custom patterns) or just some of elements.
We spent a lot of time developing this feature and we are still improving it regularly.
However, users may feel the need to tailor Style Check to their own writing style. This is where Custom Patterns can help.
Custom Patterns
Custom patterns allow you to create exceptions or new rules for Style Check.
To create a custom pattern, go to Settings → Style Check
Here is an example of adding an exception for the filler “as well as”:
Custom Patterns Syntax
For your information, here is the syntax for creating Custom Patterns. You don’t need to memorize this as you can find all of these in the Help Section of iA Writer.
Add a Rule
filler
custom ~~filler~~
Provide an Exception
Exceptions affect both custom and built-in patterns.
-filler
-custom ~~filler~~ exception
Regular Expressions
You can use regular expressions by enclosing a pattern in slashes:
Note that only a subset of regular expression features is supported to avoid slowing down editing.
Contact Us
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