More on that in the coming months.IA Writer initially awed us by its blue cursor and Nitti fontface. I probably won’t, either, because I’m stripping down my Mac software selections as well. But make sure it is a distraction-free grain of salt.Ģ I have yet to try the Mac version. 2 All in all, it’s a solid program that delivers on what it promises.īut it just doesn’t do it as well as the first app that I looked at.ġ As a result, I’d take my review with a grain of salt. Clean Writer is also available for the Mac platform through the Mac App Store. 1Ĭlean Writer is less costly than ia Writer, so it is a solid choice for those not willing to pony up the dough for my current app of choice. ia Writer seems (ironically) cleaner than Clean Writer in how it presents its writing environment. The problem is that I prefer ia Writer in terms of execution of the same idea. All in all, it delivers a minimal amount of distraction to let you get up and write.

Some of the latest features developed for Clean Writer includes Dropbox sync, which works well enough (although I couldn’t get some text files to open) and you can now adjust margin sizes to best suit what you’re writing. You can disable auto-correct as well, much like ia Writer does when you put it in “Focus Mode”, all from the Settings gear located at the top right corner of the app’s screen.

Unlike ia Writer, you can adjust font size and style (including inverting the screen colour so that the text appears white…or “hacker” green). And while I’m not necessarily disappointed by it, I’m also not thrilled with it, either.Īnd that’s not because it doesn’t deliver the goods. The second writing app I put through the paces in my ongoing experiment to find the best writing app for my iPad was Clean Writer.

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