
Thanks to a plethora of major updates over the last year or so, iA Writer now finds itself in the driver’s seat on my iPad home screen and has become my de facto writing app for any bit of text longer than 140 characters. iA Writer has been a middle-man app in my writing workflow since I started writing over at Tools & Toys in 2014.

I’ve long used iA Writer as my “Markdown preview app,” whereby I drop in photo URLs from WordPress and place the URLs within the text as iA’s great right-pane previewer updates on the spot. One of those surprising results - surprising to me, at least - was iA Writer.

2020 drew the short straw - in so many ways - and I’ve spent the better part of the last three months questioning each app on my home screen. Once every couple years, I find myself doing a deep clean of the apps on my iPhone and iPad.
