Scribe, An IPad Text Editor With HTML, Markdown

The App Store is chock-a-block with all behaviour of content editors, from full report suites that go a great way to emulating the magisterial pouch that is Microsoft Word, to ethics editors for programmers, to super-simple "distraction-free" essay environments (hint: if you cannot combine on a window on a P.C. shade for long sufficient to write a sentence, then you have bigger problems).

Now, there's a tidy small editor for people who–like me– write is to web. It's called Scribe.

Scribe is a plain-text editor with a few tidy additions for essay poetry in HTML. To come after as a content editor an app has to offer an roughly typical set of options. It needs TextExpander support, DropBox syncing, a law rise (in this case, a tweaked chronicle of Anonymous Pro) and law gestures (use two finger swipes to quash and redo). Scribe has all of these, and even adds an "interface-free mode" that blanks out all but a singular section in the core of the screen.

But the specifying underline here is the intelligent HTML system. When you prominence a word, the periodic iOS copy/paste box pops up, usually it's bigger. It right away contains buttons to hang the preference in assorted HTML tags: bold, italic, list, set upon and so on, together with a URL supporter that will spin a word onto a link, using the URL on the clipboard or vouchsafing you sort your own.

It's slick, and really intuitive, and word counts and previews are just a daub away.

If you find HTML ugly, you can moreover use Markdown, the human-friendly markup denunciation from John Gruber. In this case, the buttons work in just the same way, but instead of adding HTML tags, Markdown black are used. Therefore risky looks similar to **this**.

Finally, there's iCloud support. For a initial version, Scribe is in few instances well think out and implemented. You can even increase your own law HTML tags to the popovers. One thing that would be acquire in an refurbish is something found in many iPad editors: a singular daub in the border to pierce the cursor one disposition at a time. It's similar to practical cursor keys, and functions way improved than Apple's way to pierce the cursor (tap, hold, drag, pray).

Best of all, Scribe is mud cheap. At just $3 for a concept app, you can means to purchase it just to take it for a spin. Recommended.

Scribe product page [iTunes]