NEEDS A SEARCH FEATURE – Werdsmith: Writing App Review

I used to absolutely adore this app and use it for all of my writing. I was a paid member for literal years, and I thought it was worth every single penny, was even a part of the beta program when the new and improved version was being tested all that time ago. I didn’t really have access to a computer and did the majority of my writing on my phone, so the app was great, but then it just became cumbersome. With four+ years of ideas and projects, it became IMPOSSIBLE for me to find anything I wrote without scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and ... scrolling. Sometimes I would even go past the one I was looking for because I missed it, and I’d be scrolling through ideas for hours searching for a specific one. A search feature is a MUST if I’m going to keep using this app, let alone start paying for it again. It became such a hassle to find specific ideas that I just canceled my membership, because I felt like the updates I was helping fund just weren’t coming anymore. I’ve mentioned adding a feature like this in an email before and was told “We’ll work on it!” but that was at least a year ago, and nothing has come to pass since then. Werdsmith is a wonderful app with many great things going for it. It’s been a vital part of my writing journey being a great place to store ideas for future books, having a beautiful and easily navigated novel format (part of the paid membership), and giving me version histories and stats I haven’t found on other apps or sites, ie. how long it would take to read what’s written. I am so genuinely sad to say it seems like it’s time for me to move on from this app, because it is good, but I can’t in good conscience keep adding more to my enormous pile of writing on it unless a search feature is added. So many ideas would get pushed down to the bottom, never to be found again.
Review by SilentSpeaker01 on Werdsmith: Writing App.