Byword App Reviews

Not even sure this app is still supported. Dropbox no longer works with it. Emails to support for assistance have not been answered. Trust in this company is zero.

Ive been using Byword for a few years now, and its simplicity and functionality has changed the way I work. On both my phone and my computer, I use Byword to write just about anything, from notes to blog posts, from short stories to novels. It is simple, yet powerful with a clean interface that doesnt get in the way, but great tools when I need them. Saving in plain txt files makes syncing and reading between all my devices simple. Markdown ensures my formatting remains no matter where I open it. Byword is highly recommended.

Used to be a good app. Needs an update--Dropbox synch, which is essential, isnt reliable.

This seems to be the only app remaining in the Store that lets me sync notes via iTunes Sync (local USB sync), provides basic features like full-text search and global font settings, and is still actively maintained. Thank you, developer!

A true *writer*’s app. Fast. Stable (never a bomb). Unintrusive. Easy print. Easy Markdown generation and preview. Easy export to HTML. iCloud sync. What more could I want?

Used this app some years ago on my Mac and liked it. Acquired an iPad Mini a few months ago, installed byword and set up Dropbox synch but although byword appears in Dropbox none of the docs i composed are there---zero. This app is worthless to me if it will not synch with Dropbox. Did not have this issue with 1Writer.

Id like to create a new document and have it directly saved on a storage provider. I can only see how to edit existing documents from a storage provider, or how to create a new local document that I cannot then easily move. Also. Storage and document provider storage is nice. But I would prefer direct integration of other services that works as well as Dropbox and iCloud Drive.

I use this app and Byword for the Mac, synchronizing with iCloud. They help me retain ideas for stories and poems, scraps of things I want to tinker at later at the computer, etc. This could not be a better setup for me. I was a longtime MS Word user, and I liked it well enough, but this is so much more efficient. I love having all my stuff at my fingertips wherever I am. I also love the simplicity of these apps. They really do get out the way and let you write. I dont use Markdown much, but am getting more familiar with it. So I cant really speak to Bywords implementation of John Grubers brilliant markup language. So far everything seems to work well in that category. For me, this is it. I am deeply grateful for this family of apps and use them daily. Devs, if you read these reviews, thank you.

I have had several lost documents over the past few weeks. Not sure if its a recent release that has broken thing, if I am doing something wrong, or if this is just the behavior of the app as I am using it more. I have written a long post in ByWord only to discover that it didnt save to iCloud. Coming back to the ByWord app I only see a portion of my document with most of it just gone. This has happened to me several times and I am not sure how to prevent it from happening again. Having been burned I probably wont continue to use this app, which is a shame because it has most of the features I need.

I still cant get help with my problems. I enjoyed using this program since 2012. But upgrades have made it unusable on my iMac, and I cannot get synchronization through iCloud between devices. Very very sad. Meta classy, please help. I have sent multiple messages over the space of more than 2 weeks.