Byword for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By sjamesmccarthy

  one of the best apps; not best support

  ByWord has proven to be one of the best "minimilistic" apps for writing. It does a wonderful job for what it was built to do and doesn’t try to do more like many other apps in the same category. My only problem that I have isn’t with the app at all. It is with the developer. Their support is not nearly as good as the quality of their design and development. I have emailed them 3 questions, 1 as old as 2016 and NEVER recevied a response. I also had to purchase the app twice because of this. Their flat out ignorance to their customer should stop you right now from clicking the Buy button and that is the ONLY reason. Who knows maybe, hopefully, they will respond to this review becasue they haven’t updated Twitter in almost a year and emails just get delivered to account that they never look at.

  
  
• By crankyyankee44

  Just what I have been needing

  My writing has been scattered all over the place - Pages, documents, cloud - and I am completely disorganized in trying to get them together in one place. Then along comes Byword and I can write so easily, title it and keep it on the Byword app. I think. My problem is that Byword is part of Pages and the ‘Cloud’ thing and I would like it as a separate icon on my side bar so that I can open it without going into Pages. Any idea if this can be done? I thought I could go through the other places and put all scattered writings into the Byword but not sure I can because I moved one but it moved out again and back into the Cloud, As a writer, I don’t spend too much time using by beloved Windows for other things but this is one thing I would like to get straightened out. Any help out there?

  
  
• By Uselessdetails

  Nice!

  A few years back there was a big round of "focus on your writing" apps. Simple. No muss, no fuss. Very limited functionality. I tried Byword back then but picked something else. Today, that something else leaves my PC because of other bugs and because today I want not only flat text (with word wrap) but I also want the ability to do markdown and simple formating like rtf. Enter Byword. Just what I'm looking for right now. One price. No subscription fee. No onerous "project management" layer that several other seem to have. My OS does that just fine for me AND allows me to keep documents from multiple apps together which the "project management" UI junk doesn't. Hooray for Byword! And I just bought the iOS version while I was writing this.

  
  
• By Marvin Hamon

  Works well, even for a hack writer like me

  I’m an engineer by profession but I do occasionally get paid to write technical articles for trade publications. That being the case I was looking for a simple writing tool that supported multi-markdown and after looking at several options I decided to give Byword a try. So far it is working very well for me. I had been writing in MS Word but was often distracted by having to deal with formatting and other issues that had nothing to do with the words I was trying to get down on the page. Now I can just write. The export to MS doc file format is not all that great. The workaround is to export as HTML without the Byword theme and open the HTML file with Word then save as a doc file.

  
  
• By OneCornerstone

  It has potential!

  Byword is clean and intuitive (mostly). One thing I am confused: syncing with Dropbox. In the iOS version, Byword automatically creates and syncs a folder within a folder called “Apps” in my Dropbox. For the OSX version on Windows, I can only select Dropbox…I cannot save my files within that Apps folder. Therefore, syncing between devices is impossible without multiple steps. So far, I’ve had better luck with Ulysses when it comes to syncing. I do like it U.I. But the Rich Text features don’t seem to be present when I turn it on. In the preview images in the App Store, it shows settings popping up when selecting text. No such features exist when I switch to Rich Text mode. So like the title says Byword is nice and has potential. But I am not sure yet if it will be my home for drafting. It needs to make the syncing process more seamless.

  
  

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