Byword App Reviews

This App has become my default text and markdown editor. I love the way it you can publsh to Evernote. It scrolls just fine for me. My only complaint is that I wish we had some options for the Preview view of the document.

I love this app for markdown and writing in general. It’s my current favorite.

I try a lot of writing apps, but I keep coming back to Byword. I like how the Markdown elements fade, but the best thing ever is the keyboard shortcut Command-Option-C, which copies the Markdown document to the Clipboard in HTML, ready to paste into a CMS or even just another file. It’s nice clean HTML I don’t have to clean up, and it just makes my life easier. The iCloud integration is solid. I never have crashes or lose data. This app is worth the money if you write in Markdown, and it’ll make the transition to Markdown easier if you want to learn Markdown but never have.

Does not display footnotes and will not open Open Office documents.

Been using Byword a couple of weeks now and just love it. I blog and post on four different sites. I also write for publication. Byword makes it easy for me to capture my thoughts and work seamlessly between devices. Then, when I’m ready to publish, I can get it done with just a couple of key strokes. This program is a great buy and if you write a lot, will make you more productive and efficient!

I learned about Byword from David Sparks’s Markdown ebook. I had tried several other apps but this one is the best, by far. The simplicity of the interface hides a very sophisticated Markdown editor that I am just now beginning to appreciate fully. I can always think of improvements and enhancements, however, and Byword is no exception. It would be nice to have automatic save on keyboard inactivity or at a specified interval to keep my paranoia at bay. A little more attention to nested lists would be welcome, as I sometimes have problems formatting them to appear as I expected. (It’s entirely possible that the problem is due to my own ineptness.) Overall, I am extremely pleased.

My favorite no-nonsense text editor with just the right amount of visual cues to support this wanna-be geek’s growing love of Markdown.

Whenever I have something I need to write longer than an email, I always start in Byword. There I type ourt mh thoughts with minimal distraction about formatting, etc. After drafting it there, I can export it to Pages, Word, or whatever to polish it if need be. Of course I could just start with the word processor but somehow starting in Byword just helps me get started right away. Great value for the price.

I use a lot of different tools for blogging – MarsEdit, BBedit, Wordpress’s app, TextExpander, Interarchy, FTPonthego among them – but virtually every post I write begins and frequently ends in Byword. The interface is clear and conducive to writing, the markdown works as intended, the preview and publishing features are minimalist and effective. The integration with iCloud and compatibility across devices means I can use any Mac or iPad I own at any point in the writing and publishing process. There are weaknesses – documentation leaves much to be desired and the publishing feature often fails to pick up a post’s title, for example – but it is simple and seamless and gets the job done.

I use byword to type anything bigger than an endnote list on my Macbook Pro, iPad mini, and iPhone 6. The typing interface is great on all three – the Mac version gives me just enough style control without having too many options – and once I learned it, I’ve liked using Markdown. Even in RTF view, the markdown tags make it easy to see what’s what. I appreciate the ability to save everything to iCloud Drive so I can share between devices and access through finder. Output is as bad as input is good. First, no matter how many line-breaks I type or how I adjust the settings, when I copy and paste into any other app or web page, the breaks aren’t seen as paragraph breaks. Every time I copy or export a document, I have to manually delete/enter between every paragraph. One time on a three paragraph document isn’t a big deal. A dozen times a week on thousand word articles is a pain in the posterior. Second, even with the filters and addons on both ends, the Markdown isn’t parsed when exported, whether through their premium exporter or copy/paste. I love it for writing, but the problems above are making it more work than it’s worth. One last feature I take issue with. This is a paid app with an extra purchase of premium publishing. I get that it’s a way to save money for people who don’t have need of the premium feature. My frustration is that the $4.99 addon has to be purchased twice if you use both Macs and iOS devices. I don’t mind paying a fair price for software, but this double-dinking is just frustrating. Charge me the fair price up front and don’t make me pay for the same addon in two places. As it stands, I write on my Mac, open the document on my iPad to publish, then jump back on the Mac to fix all the things that don’t publish properly. That’s just too much futzing around.

Firstly, if you are somewhat of an experienced typer, want to write, and comfortable with using symbols (#, *, -) then GET THIS APP. Writing used to be a chore, struggling to format the document so it looks nice, working around the multiple pages and complexity of a rich text editor, etc. All of this goes away with Byword. Everything is BEAUTIFULLY formatted and it really makes you want to write knowing your text looks good right off the bat. Another great thing is markdown. Markdown has improved my writing speed tremendously. Instead of having to waste minutes trying to format my text, it’s as simple as another few keystrokes. Byword even can publish to multiple blogging platforms right from the editor! I publish posts to my self-hosted Wordpress blog without a hitch. The bottom line is that everything comes together in Byword to give you a glorious writing experience. I love writing now, it’s fun.

I have used Byword regularly for a couple of years on both the mac and iOS. It is an excellent tool for creating markdown documents and generating html code for web publishing - it is my go to app for writing and converting. The iOS version provides easy access and editing for all of my text documents.

I’ve tried a lot of Markdown-supported text editors, and I always seem to come back to Byword. It’s both simple and powerful.

Byword has become my editor of choice for writing blog posts. It makes use of the flexible and easy-to-learn markdown conventions for editing. A markdown text can easily be previewed, and one one is satisfied with the appearance, the text can then be published to Blogger, Wordpress or one of the other commonly used blog sites. Alternatively, the text can be converted to HTML, RTF, PDF, Word DOC or even LaTeX encoding. This means one can focus most of one’s attention on content rather than formatting as one is writing. While my long-standing habit has been to use a dedicated LaTeX editor when using that markup language, I am considering switching to using Byword at least for composing passages that can then be copied into a large LaTeX document for final formatting.

I bought Byword on a whim after exploring several of the free/open source Markdown editors for Mac. I’m disappointed by three things: - No live preview window - No place to use custom CSS templates - Support for math equations only works when exporting to HTML, not PDF - and it does not support full multimarkdown syntax These are standard features on other Mac Markdown editors. Further I have found their support via both Twitter and email fairly unresponsive (I got one email reply, no Tweet replies, and no reply to my follow-up to the email reply). It’s certainly not a “bad” app - it’s polished and well designed. It’s just lacking some essential Markdown features and my support experience has been sub-par. 3/5 for features and another star lost for poor support.

Byword is so good that I’ve set all my text files to open with it. Markdown support is great, the exporting options are really useful (I now draft some emails in it using Markdown to create links and lists and such, then copy as Rich Text for Mail), and now you can even publish straight to Tumblr and WordPress. Get it.

When I need to sit down and generate content, there is only one tool I use. Byword. I have at least a dozen other markdown editors, word processors, text editors and the like. The one I *ALWAYS* turn to? Byword. For me, it just works.

I love ByWord and it is becoming my default application for all of my writing needs. Thanks for such a great application!

I’m really confused as to what I may be doing wrong. I’ve written a post for my hosted Wordpress blog, in Byword inserted my image from my computer. It shows in the Byword ‘preview Markdown’. I publish to my blog and I see the text and no image. Confused as to why the image isn’t showing.

This application is addictive. Once mastered you will never ever want to write in anything else. I recommend avoiding it b/c your life will go to hell as you realize all the places that dont natively interpret Markdown in your life and you experience rage at their myopic view of the world. On a bit more serious note, I use Byword to write: * Most blog posts (over 60,000 words this year) then transfer into the blog software. * Essays for my employer (over 50,000 words this year), then paste them in to my email * Notes when building slide decks that become the decks over time (~1000 slides) I estimate I write 40% faster with Byword. If I have to write it, I do it in Byword, then transfer it to the _other editor_. If you understand the special symbols in this review, I suspect you are already nodding your head yes. Thanks for a great application.