Byword App Reviews

Syncs well between Mac and iOS devices. Can use Cloud or Dropbox. Its a great place from start to publish. Really like the interface.

The basics of this application are pretty great and it is a great markdown editor. I wish it had better support for document providers though.

First of all. No Google Drive support? Secondly, not many UI / graphic tailoring settings. Also, the overall look and feel is not so solid. This is a text editor. Its not a difficult app to make amazing. This is not amazing. It feels like Im typing in Windows 98.

While I am still learning how to use markdown, and this app is great and all, it doesnt upload images from my phone to my blogger account. I ended up figuring out how to link to a remote image with my imgur account. Other than that, great job.

I ride the bus a lot, so I often start blogs on my commute. When I get to to the office, I can easily open the desktop app, and it is already synced where I left off. There are very few options to distract from writing, which is great!

I love Byword. The interface is clean and easy to use. Parses markdown beautifully while you type. Its so easy to read and feels so nice. I love it! I dont write a whole lot of articles, but when I do write one, it takes me a while. So I like to take my work offline while I flesh out my thoughts. Markdown and Byword allow me to do that wonderfully. Then it syncs back to Dropbox where I can publish to Ghost blog. *Feature request*: the only thing I would change is that there should be a Markdown cheat sheet. I sometimes forget some of the markdown syntax. It would be nice to get a quick cheat sheet right in the app instead of opening a browser. That way, I could truly be offline.

The best of all markdown iOS editors. The only thing it needs is SEARCH - a vital text editing function! Please add!

Like many of you, Ive tried several writing apps, but keep coming back to Byword. I love being able to start an article on the iPhone and finishing it up on either the iPad or the Mac. Export options are also terrific. I agree with a previous review about adding a search. Still, great app.

The best markdown writer on any platform keeps getting better and better. Thanks guys!

Byword used to be great. I even bought the add-on. Lately, its infrequently updated and when it is updated (like the latest update), its more likely to not work as well as before. In the latest update - external keyboard navigation (i.e. pressing things like COMMAND-down_arrow to go down to end of document) dont work. They used to work flawlessly but not anymore. Contacting the developer about this didnt help in any way. There was no response whereas before the developer responded right away. The last straw is that the current version is unstable. I literally just lost 100 words I just wrote because Byword crashed. In fact, I was searching for markdown editor in the app store and Byword was the first selection and this prompted me to write a review. It saddens me that things have gone downhill with Byword. It reflects poorly on the developer and it definitely discourages me from purchasing any new apps. Message to the developer: If youre going to stop supporting an app, then have the balls to be upfront about it rather than take the app and your users on a slow ride to uselessness.

Wonderful for taking notes in markdown. Easy to use and just gets out of your way. Syncs nicely with the Mac and iOS version.

My Byword app lives on my 2nd generation iPad and does precisely what I require: opens to a blank page in a snap for note-taking outside of the office, saves and dates the notes even if I forget to name them, and makes it easy to email the notes to myself when the interview is over. Ive never learned Markdown, though I still plan to, and have had little trouble doing what I need to do. Its always been stable. Nice app.

Opening, creating, and editing text files on every device and seamless syncing make this an incredibly useful app.

I use Byword on my Mac and love it, but this is a disappointment. The lack of RTF support means I cant view or edit many of my older documents from OSX. I bought this thinking it would work seamlessly with my existing Byword docs, but it doesnt even see them. I dont want to change all my files over to Markdown. Had I known this iOS version wasnt fully compatible within else version, Id have saved myself some money.

GitHub Flavored Markdown support would be amazing. Please add support for this. I would pay for it as an IAP!

Perfect integration with Dropbox. Wonderful app design. Quick. Use this instead of the built in notes. Only con: the app icon isnt great.

Simple, elegant and always ready. And all the power I need (markdown!) across all my platforms (Mac, iPad and iPhone). Byword has become my go-to writing environment.

All functions work as advertised. Easy to use UI. Ive never seen this app crash.

Typing in ByWord is fabulous, and the automatic backup feature keeps all my projects in easy reach. Ive only ever suffered one glitch, and it was due to spotty wifi connectivity resulting in a document not backing up properly, but the app spotted the error and helped me remedy it. I write daily on this, a thousand words a day, and it is easily my favorite way to write.

Microsoft word what? Oh how I dislike ms word. I love the writing experience with byword. I write an email each day to my list. And its usually done using byword on my iPhone 6 plus. Go figure. If you would have asked me if Id be writing emails on my iPhone I would have laughed. But I do. I also use byword on my Macintosh.