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Scrivener for iPad under development

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 4th, 2012)

Last December, Literature & Latte confirmed the company will begin porting its popular Mac writing app, Scrivener, to the iPad. Though work is under way, progress is slow because, as Literature & Latte points out, good apps take time to plan and develop. Much of the time since ...

Nisus updates Writer Pro for Lion

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 14th, 2011)

Nisus has updated its Nisus Writer Pro and Nisus Writer Express software with full OS X 10.7 Lion-compatibility and full-screen features. Besides the Lion features, Nisus Writer Pro 2.0.1 adds a number of requested features like drawing tools, track changes, and watermarks. Nisus Writer Express ...

Video App Demo: Daedalus Touch

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 1st, 2011)

Daedalus Touch is a text editor designed for iPad and engineered to be as simple and clutter-free as possible. From what I saw, it succeeds admirably. Granted, there are lots of text editors on the App Store, but Daedalus offers a clean interface with a few nice features, like modeless search. ...

WriteRoom 3.0 expands support to iPad

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jul 13th, 2011)

In a move that I'm surprised took so long to happen, Hog Bay Software has released version 3.0 of WriteRoom for iOS, expanding it into a universal app with several iPad-specific features. Improvements include an updated UI with custom color tinting for highlights, cursors and more and the ...

Patent shows concept for platform-independent word processor

by Chris Ward (May 23rd, 2011)

Patently Apple has uncovered a new patent application from Apple that might give us a glimpse of part of Apple's future internet strategy. This approach looks beyond OS X and could bring apps like Pages to the PC and other platforms. The patent talks about a new word processing platform that ...

Byword 1.2, now with Markdown support

by Brett Terpstra (May 23rd, 2011)

Byword is a full-screen, "distraction-free" word processor that has an interesting twist: it focuses on just the text around your cursor (or even just the current line), dimming the rest of your composition so that even that can't distract you. Byword (and its predecessors) are based on the idea ...

Scrivener 2.0 public preview now available

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 25th, 2010)

Barely a week before NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) begins, the public preview of Scrivener 2.0 is out. This version is sans the project templates that will be available when the full version hits next week. In addition to the 2.0 preview, a beta version of the new Windows client is also ...

Friday Favorite: Ommwriter, the Zen word processor for writers

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 11th, 2009)

More Friday Favorites, the apps, tools and accessories that we love to share. As a writer, I love Scrivener. It's great for managing large and complex projects. But for shorter pieces, this blog post for example, I've found a new favorite, Ommwriter. Brett first mentioned the beta of Ommwriter ...

TUAW Review: Storyist 2.0, a professional's writing tool

by Steven Sande (Aug 19th, 2009)

Over the past several months, we've been publishing a series of reviews of writer's tools (last year we posted some great writing tools for students). While a few of the tools that have been covered in depth have been minimalist writing environments such as WriteRoom, there are more powerful and ...

Friday Favorite: Scrivener

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 26th, 2009)

Not long after I bought my first personal Mac in late 2004, I stumbled across an article that mentioned Ulysses, a text editor geared toward creative writers -- essentially the marriage between a word processor and project management software. It allows you to have all documents within a writing ...

unmarked software cleans up TextSoap 6

by Steven Sande (May 13th, 2009)

OK, when a Mac application has a fun word like "soap" in the name, you just have to roll with the puns. Please forgive me. The developers at unmarked software have scrubbed the dickens out of TextSoap, their text processing application for Mac OS X. Some dirty bugs had besmirched the application, ...

TUAW Review: Quickoffice for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Apr 29th, 2009)

Having worked with Quickoffice on both the Palm and Windows Mobile platforms in the past, I was eagerly anticipating the release of the iPhone version. Quickoffice gives you the power to view, edit, and create Microsoft Office documents. The new Quickoffice for iPhone "only" works with Word and ...

Journeys inside the iPhone's SDK

by Erica Sadun (Aug 3rd, 2007)

I have now spent a pretty solid week writing applications for the iPhone. And what an exciting week it's been. I've been privileged to view and interact with the iPhone in a way that few other people have had the opportunity to. The iPhone is tight, robust and its SDK--even seen through such ...

Nisus Writer Pro Beta available

by Mat Lu (Apr 12th, 2007)

Nisus Writer was a serious old-school classic Mac word processor with a devoted following. In the OS X era Nisus introduced Nisus Writer Express, which has a somewhat more limited feature set, but they promised a more powerful version, Nisus Writer Pro. It has has now finally arrived as a public ...

Scrivener - the word processor with a cork board

by David Chartier (Feb 4th, 2007)

Scrivener is a new word processor made for the messy, non-linear and notecard-slinging writers out there. Merlin Mann has been raving about it, and I can understand why: Scrivener's entire UI and workflow is designed around managing the pieces of whatever you're working on, allowing you to ...