SammyDuck – iWriter Pro Review

UPDATED REVIEW, Sept 28, 2019: Raising my rating to FIVE STARS. I really like the new features in the iPadOS 13 update, especially the new markdown shortcut panel (like Ulysses and iA Writer) and the 4 new focus modes, including paragraph, the one I use most often. When I first installed it, I encountered a couple of bugs, which I reported to support. FASTEST SUPPORT RESPONSE TIME I’VE EVER SEEN FOR ANY APP. I feel confident the bugs will be eliminated post haste. Photos can now be inserted using a shortcut icon on the extra shortcut keyboard row. One can adjust size and alignment of photos using markdown syntax, but I’m hoping shortcuts will be added for these as well. I’m a Wordpress blogger and fiction writer and have used virtually every text editor in the App Store. Again, a great UI, and app seems stable and reliable so far. OLD REVIEW: iWriter Pro sports a great, intuitive UI, and document management system. Quite easy to learn and use. Writing in markdown, however, would profit from the addition of a markdown shortcut keyboard row, including, especially, an “insert image” (from Photos app or Files app) icon, of which facility this app is sorely lacking. An image resize and alignment (left, center, right) would help immensely, as well. Add publishing, and uploading of images, to blog hosts like Wordpress and Medium, and I’d gladly add the FIFTH STAR. Much potential here. I’d like to see custom arranging, merging, appending, prepending of text files—ala Ulysses—and perhaps tagging of entries for quick search operations. Personally, I can do without code blocks but need block quotes, tables, links, including reference, and footnotes. These are already available in iWriter Pro, but could be facilitated with a shortcut row, as mentioned above.
Review by SammyDuck on iWriter Pro.