Back to (testing) IA Writer

The folks at IA just released a new version of IA Writer, a minimalist writing app for iOS and Mac¹ that now supports publishing on micro.blog in addition to WordPress, Ghost, and Medium. Since I just re-started testing micro.blog I am now back to testing IA Writer too.

I've been loving this app for a while before moving all my writing in Ulysses. The competition between the two has led to lots of interesting features, but in my experience, Ulysses has always been ahead in terms of what you can do with the app. Ulysses is far away when it comes to writing books, exporting, and managing documents. You can do that even with IA Writer, but it's a bit tricky.

IA Writer, on the other hand, has always been the most beautiful app to look at when writing out of the box², and it has that syntax highlighting feature that helps you write better highlighting adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, nouns and verbs. In my opinion, it works great for English, less for Italian, and since I mostly write in my native language this didn't make a difference for me. But since I decided to start writing also in English to improve my knowledge of the language, now it does make sense.

Stay tuned for a more in deep comparison.

*Written and published with AI Writer. Actually written only, IA writer saves a draft for you in micro.blog and you have to publish from there. The worst thing is that it saves html not markdown unless you check the option in the account option. You are never prompted to do that, but you will only find that once you go back looking for that feature. But publish on markdown at the moment doesn't work. Bad experience. *