iA Writer (was iA Writer Pro) is a professional writing suite that gives you full control over your notes, drafts, and edits. iA Writer creates a clean, simple, and distraction-free writing environment for when you really need to focus on your words.
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8.1.1 · FREE · Universal
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- Features
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- Whats new?
- The Simple Writing App: iA Writer removes distractions. Gives you a calm, focused writing space, so you can express yourself clearly.
- Focus: Focus Mode dims everything but the current sentence or paragraph, helping you stay in the flow.
- Start: Don’t worry about the format. First, write in plain text. Then preview in HTML.
- Organize: Search, sort, and quickly swap between documents from different clouds without leaving the window.
- Work: iA Writer includes an inverted light-on-dark-mode, perfect for working day and night.
- Clean: Spot superfluous adjectives, weak verbs, repetitive nouns, false conjunctions and clean your text of the usual rumble.
- Shape: Customize your templates and export to WordPress or Medium, HTML, Microsoft Word (.docx), or PDF.
- 100% Text: Embed links, pictures, tables, and text files in plain text and see them in the preview.
What's New in Version 8.1.1
This update fixes a few small bugs. It includes all the great features in iA Writer 5.6:
Style Check- Improve your writing by getting rid of fillers, clichés, and redundancies
- They’re automatically dimmed and crossed-out as you type
- Easy to delete: double-click to select the whole phrase
- Private: all processing is done on your device
- Fast: optimized to work in real-time
- Enable in Focus menu or with Option+Shift+Command+D
- Built-in patterns for English, French, German
- Add your own patterns in Editor settings
- Use the? button when editing custom patterns to learn how to make them better by providing context, exceptions, and using regular expressions
- Markdown files open up to 350 times faster
- More responsive when editing large files
- Editor correctly handles inline code that contains backticks
Older versions & Compatibility
Running macOS Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, or Ventura? Download tested builds for Intel and Apple Silicon.
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8.1.1 LatestOct 28, 2026 · 25 MB · Universal
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8.1.0 ArchivedOct 26, 2026 · 28 MB · Universal
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8.0.9 ArchivedOct 08, 2026 · 27 MB · Universal
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8.0.8 ArchivedOct 28, 2026 · 25 MB · Universal
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8.0.7 ArchivedOct 28, 2026 · 25 MB · Universal
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8.0.6 ArchivedOct 28, 2026 · 25 MB · Universal
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