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Byword
Metaclassy, Lda.

April 26th, 2012



This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad

Price: $2.99

Category: Productivity

Updated: Apr 26, 2012

Version: 1.0.3

Size: 2.8 MB

Language: English

Seller: Metaclassy, Lda

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later.


Customer Ratings

Current Version
     

(22 Ratings)

All Versions
     

(148 Ratings)



Byword by Metaclassy, Lda.

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Description

INTRODUCTORY PRICE 50% OFF

Byword provides an amazing environment to write Markdown on your iPhone and iPad, and have your documents seamlessly synced between all your iPhone, iPad and Mac devices using iCloud or Dropbox.

Enhanced for the new iPad

iCloud and Dropbox syncing
Byword brings safe and seamless document syncing across all your Mac and iOS devices using the best technologies available: iCloud and Dropbox. Using iCloud, all your document are instantly available in other devices. With Dropbox, choose a new or an existing folder you want to begin and your documents will be there safe and available seamlessy on multiple platforms.


Markdown smart editing
Most Markdown editing features you love on the Mac are now available on Byword iOS: List continuations, easy conversion between bullet and numbered lists, selection auto-wrapping for parenthesis, brackets, quotes and asterisks.


Keyboard accessories
A swipable row above the keyboard, includes selective word and character counters, a tab key, smart pairing characters, an undo key, all-directions text navigation and Markdown helpers for creating headings, links, images and lists.

Includes TextExpander integration.


Exporting and printing directly from Byword
With Byword for iOS you can export Markdown documents to HTML and save them to iCloud, Dropbox or to iTunes documents. Using AirPrint, printing beautiful rich documents is a breeze.


Composing a blog post
If you have a blog that accepts HTML input, Byword has a Copy HTML feature that is perfect for you. You can now draft an entire blog post in Byword using plain text and Markdown syntax, then copy the HTML and paste into your blog platform. Say goodbye to your clunky web-based composer interface.


Composing an email
Byword works great as an email composer. Using Markdown you can compose an entire email then send it in rich text format or as an attachment to anyone.


Important note
Byword for iOS only works with plain text formats. Supported file extensions are: txt, text, md, mmd, markdown, markdn, mdown, mkdn, markd and fountain.


Great Support
We are proud to provide a super friendly personal customer support. If you need help and/or have suggestions, please contact us using the mediums below.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/bywordapp
Email: byword@metaclassy.com
Web: http://bywordapp.com

What's New in Version 1.0.3

• Fixes an issue with iCloud that could lead to data loss immediately after creating new documents — only the initial contents were kept.

• Improves iCloud conflict resolver — Byword now displays the name of the device where the conflict versions were generated.

• Improves Dropbox performance — everything should now be faster, specially the initial folder listing.

• Adds support for byword:// URL scheme to interact with Byword from other apps like Launch Center.

Supported actions are:

■ byword:// — Launches Byword

■ byword://new — Launches Byword and creates an empty new document in current folder

■ byword://new?text=Hello — Launches Byword and creates an new document with the content Hello

Customer Reviews

ICloud support is worse than half-baked (1 star)
I desperately want something that works ***well*** with iCloud.

This ain't it! After a few days of use, now my files all look like Chinese gibberish...like when you dump a binary file to the console on Windows.

IaWriter isn't any better.

I can put up with the frequent crashes, but now all my work is trashed and I can't even try to make a new document!

I wasted my money on the Mac and iPad versions. N

A good start (4 stars)
I have been using byword for Mac for months, and it is been steadily adding features that I wanted. I assume that byword for iPhone will follow the same pattern. It has a lot of good features, but not everything that I want, not yet.

-Byword for iPhone currently only supports plaintext and markdown. Markdown requires the file extension .mdown or .txt. There is no RTF support.

-I'm used to using the dark theme with byword fo

Beautiful, but laggy (4 stars)
A lot of my life is in plain text. On my Mac desktop, I interact with notes through Notational Velocity; on the iPad, I've been using WriteRoom. But I'm always on the lookout for something better!

Byword like its competitor allows folders and dropbox synch. Its interface is more elegant, and a pleasure to use. The problem, though: the synch that starts every time I open the file list takes about ten seconds for a list of about

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