Writemator - Plain Text Editor
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | $2.99 | AMIT CHAUDHARY | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Writemator is a text editor designed to help you focus. Instead of bombarding you with lots of buttons and features like many traditional word processing packages so often do, Writemator is a plaintext editor with dropbox sync. That means no bold, italic or other formatting, no markdown (though you could write in markdown if you wanted to) and no support for adding pictures or other media. While the application is sparse on features, it is well thought out.
If you're a student spending long nights on your research paper, a journalist writing up your latest piece of news, or a novelist intensely typing away on your next creative work — Writemator is an app for you on your iOS devices.
FEATURES:
• Updated for iOS 11 - iOS 9
• Updated to support 64 bit architectures
• Distraction-free interface keeps your text in focus
• Dropbox Sync API V2. Support both "Sync Automatically" and "Manual Sync"
• Writemator allows you to choose the folder with which you link in your Dropbox account
• Support TextExpander Touch Expansion. Updated to the latest SDKs of TETouch
• Support Split View/ Multitasking feature for iPad Pro
• Drag and Drop Support (for items like plain text, xml, html, URLs, etc.) of iOS 11 (only in Split View)
• Document Picker Support. Support "Import" and "Export" methods of document picker
• Touch ID and Passcode and Face ID support
• Search tool that lets you search for and find every document that contains your search text
• Fast and powerful search inside a file to search text in a file. Works great even for a document with more than 500,000 words
• Drag-to-scroll scroll bar for quick navigation bigger documents. Just like desktop app scrolling
• In full-screen view, tap margins to move cursor toward margin (iPad only)
• Many new fonts are added like iA Writer Duospace, IBM Plex, SF UI Text, Roboto, Menlo, Bitter, etc. More than 150 fonts are available
• Extended keyboard row with customizable keys
• Dark Mode keyboard
• Customize your text and background color to any color, line spacing, font size to make your own writing room
• Line spacing is improved from the older version of WriteRoom
• Change brightness of the screen (useful if you are in split view mode)
• Tint cursor/selected text/buttons/etc.
• Sort the folder list by name or date, descending.
• Hide or unhide status bar. Dark mode status bar for dark background
• Scroll headings during typing to hide headings
• Rename your document or folder
• Swipe to delete a document or a folder
• Detect links in a document
• Support text right to left (useful for writers for languages like in Arabic)
• AirDrop/ Open In... feature support
• Powerful URLs scheme support
• Hide or show file extensions (support various file extensions of plain text like html, css, plain text, ft,taskpaper
• Project is based on the old WriteRoom source code. Source code is updated to support ARC (automatic reference counting), size classes.
• Writemator is built using the latest Xcode 9.x
• Support all iOS devices (iOS 11 - iOS 9) including iPhone X
• A new app icon
If you have any questions/feedbacks/suggestions please let me know via email: [email protected]
Follow @writemator on twitter and spread the word if you like my work on this app
Become a fan on Facebook @writemator
Have a great time ahead!
-Amit Chaudhary
Reviews
Yes!
WildDragonGirl1
I am a young teenaged author trying to publish a book and I love this! It was exactly what I needed and so much better than Pages or Notes. I love it. Keep up the good work! Can u please add italic tho? I needed that for one of my books but... this didn't have it. Pls? ? (I mean italic fonts.)
Loved app until latest update broke Dropbox
davidamodt
Tried to load up the app but it crashes when trying to sync the Dropbox folders
Great Replacement for Writeroom
Blu 28
Looks terrific & is very responsive. Dark theme keyboard is a welcome innovation.
Very rare bug seems to fix itself
Truth we trust
It seems it had something to do with Dropbox syncing. After being accused by developer of intentionally leaving bad reviews, I took a closer look at the presumably broken app. I tapped around the screen and was able to create some new folders before the screen contents disappear, after multiple click somehow the screen stays and stopped disappearing and I also received my desktop notification from Dropbox that a lot of files have been changed( presumably it’s re-configuring my previous notes stored in the Dropbox folder). From that moment on, the app starts to work normally again. Also check out my video recording of the weird incident: bit.ly/2yUfQW
Good, but no word count as in the old version
nycwriterprof
It's great to have this app back as Writeroom was my favorite distraction-free writing tools. While there are some strong features here, esp. the Dropbox support and wide choice of fonts, which most comparable apps don't have, I don't see a word count, which is a must-have in this space. Perhaps the developer could add this easily? (I can search for spaces in a document and get a close approximation of words in the returned number of matches, but that's a kludge, isn't it?) The old Writeroom just displayed the word count as you wrote -- so simple. Anyway, keep up the good work. Thanks for the response on the word count feature. The old Writeroom — most other similar apps just offer a word count feature live at the bottom (or top of the screen). Many NaNoWrMo and similar writers need word counts to manage their writing time. And of course journalists and bloggers need this feature.... On a 1,000 word document, I had to scroll all the way up, then swipe again. Perhaps there’s a way to just display the word count in the corner of the document like in the old version?
Was working perfect and now:(
tearaglass
My app crashes immediately upon opening. Please fix this bug!!!
Good, but no word count as in the old version
nycwriterprof
It's great to have this app back as Writeroom was my favorite distraction-free writing tools. While there are some strong features here, esp. the Dropbox support and wide choice of fonts, which most comparable apps don't have, I don't see a word count, which is a must-have in this space. Perhaps the developer could add this easily? (I can search for spaces in a document and get a close approximation of words in the returned number of matches, but that's a kludge, isn't it?) The old Writeroom just displayed the word count as you wrote -- so simple. Anyway, keep up the good work.
Very direct Dropbox access
jbmfc
Best feature for me is that it can be configured to, as soon as you launch it, go directly to a Dropbox folder. Next best feature, the Dropbox folder is synchronized so that when you’re offline you still have access to files, and any changes you make are synchronized the soon as you get back on. Works great for my field service business.
Broken
Room_Service
Downloaded last night. Added a few notes - none of which synced with Dropbox. Now today, the app crashes on startup every time I open it. It seems like you basically took Taskmator, removed the formatting system, and put a plain text editor in its place. I don't even think you can call this "re-skinning" an app. It's more like you took one constantly buggy app, removed some funtionality, and created a seperate yet equally unreliable "notes" version of Taskmator.
