That said, I think these apps could really use support for Markdown to take editing to another level of awesomeness. Sometimes it’s a lot easier to just blast out the words in text than having to worry about dealing with a blog editor, formatting, links, or whatever. If you want to edit the files in another app, just open the folder and edit the file and save it.Īgain, these are just plain text files, nothing fancy…just like SimpleNote. Writings has nice word count, spell check, and margins features…it’s just an elegant app to use.īoth these apps work with Dropbox in the same way: they create a folder that text files are created and stored in. ![]() Yep, PlainText is free (if you don’t mind ads), but Writings just looks nicer. It doesn’t allow you to create folders like PlainText does, but the extras like being able to create docs to and from the clipboard, tying into the “Edit in…” dialogs and a nice full screen focus mode (like WriteRoom). It also has Dropbox syncing, but adds a really nice UI on top of of the usual features. Writings for iPad ($5) ( Disclosure: I was in the private beta test, so I received the app for free while testing.) is a much more elegant app for the iPad. It’s a basic, no frills app that just lets you get down to writing. but $5 to remove adds) is very hard to beat. If you’re going to go bargain basement on a text editor that also syncs with Dropbox, PlainText (free. PlainText and Writings: Syncing with Dropbox FTW If not? If you’re just working in plain text or Markdown then pulling that into another app, skip Pages. If you need to format a document, Pages is going to be the app to use. ![]() Presentations, well … that’s different, but Pages is a nice app for the iPad. If you’re just doing text editing, Pages is overkill. Since I haven’t tried QuickOffice (I’d be happy if someone gifted it to me though!), I can’t speak for the editing experience in those apps, but from using Pages and Keynote (honestly I don’t think I’ve fired up Numbers more than once, silly I know) I think they are pretty good for rich text editing. This doesn’t answer the question, though, are the apps worth it?
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