Write For Mac Now Available, iPhone And iPad Versions Updated With New Features

In February last year, Write for iPhone was launched. The following May, Write for iPad came out. Now, over a year later, Write for Mac is born.

Indeed, the Mac edition of the acclaimed (and simply named) writing app developed by Tanmay Sonawane has finally been released.

Of course, like its iOS counterparts, Write for Mac offers a distraction-free writing interface. It also packs a suite of useful features including:

Full Multimarkdown 4 Support

Syntax Highlighting and a unique Rich Text Markdown mode

Beautiful handpicked fonts and support to use your own fonts

Type Writer Scrolling

Customizable Theme and Export CSS

Butter smooth scrolling no matter how big your document

Word, Sentence, Paragraph count and Estimated Reading Time stats

Drag Drop Image/URL Support via panels

Select to Copy HTML offers super quick way to get HTML code for a particular piece of markdown text

Moreover, Write for Mac robustly supports sharing, syncing, and tagging.

Coinciding with the release of Write for Mac, Write for iPhone and Write for iPad have both been updated with quite a few features and improvements, most notably tag support and tag syncing, Dropbox file editing, and advanced x-callback URL actions. Here's a list of what's new:

More distraction free with all sync messages hidden by default

New save file animation which is non-intrusive and subtle

Support for X-Callback. Documentation at (writeapp.net/urlscheme)

Support for new actions such as append, prepend, replace

All custom url actions will now be synced between devices via iCloud

Tag support

Tags will sync with Write for Mac (iCloud is needed for syncing tags)

Ability to Move Files

Support for RTL direction for languages like Arabic

Short swipe on any file from list to left and release to delete

Long swipe on any file from list to left to left and release to move

Option to move from quick-look menu

Bookmarked folders - This allows you to add any amount of folders from Dropbox and access them quickly

Ability to open and modify any text/markdown file anywhere on your Dropbox

Changed default writing mode to Hybrid

Added a delete icon to main writing screen

Updated Evernote SDK to the latest version

Swipe from center to the right to go back

New subtle file saving animation

All sync messages are hidden by default

Auto ordered and unordered list on return

Ability to Find Next for search within a note

Full Multimarkdown 4 support

Markdown preview will automatically scroll to the last caret location while editing.

Thesaurus - Select any word to get its synonyms

Removed prompt that asked for review every x day