Written in Cocoa Size 11.7MB | Operating system | |
Developer(s) Information Architects Inc. Initial release May 28, 2011 (2011-05-28) Stable release 4.0.2 / December 16, 2016; 2 months ago (2016-12-16) | ||
iA Writer is a minimalist text editor for macOS, Android, and iOS developed by Information Architects Incorporated. The idea of iA Writer is "to keep you focused on just writing". iA Writer has been "downloaded 600,000 times by everyone from hobbyist writers to the bestselling author Augusten Burroughs. It is the best-selling text editor in the App Store, behind Apple's own Pages application.
iA Writer has a typical layout using what the authors call "writing typography", and is characterized by a monospaced font (Nitti), a blue cursor, and a gray background color. iA Writer comes without preferences to avoid procrastination in the settings panel. The lack of settings has been subject to some criticism, but the absence of settings is a declared component of the core concept and, among other things, is part of the reason for the success of iA Writer.