iPhone & iPad App

Yes. Download it from the App Store and sign in with your Writing Desk account. How much you can sync depends on your plan. Get the app on your phone.

Yes, it's on the App Store. An Android app is on its way, and we'll announce it when it's ready.

Notes work straight away with no Mac. Your books and documents come from the Mac app, so you need it to sync them to your phone.

Yes. Read, write, comment and capture notes without a connection. Everything syncs when you reconnect.

Notes sync automatically. Books and documents sync when you switch sync on for them, one at a time, using the cloud icon beside the file name on your Mac. Sync a book to your phone.

No. Phone edits to a manuscript arrive on your Mac as suggestions, and nothing changes until you accept them. Markdown and Word files merge back by paragraph, with a card that lets you undo the merge. How phone edits come back to your Mac.

Start with a note, then choose Save as document on your Mac. Notes on your phone and your Mac.

Not yet. Documents sync from the Mac to the phone.

Yes, for Word files you have synced. The first time you edit one you see a reminder that complex formatting may change, and you can choose to edit a copy instead. Writing Desk keeps a backup copy when you switch sync on for the file. Choose which documents sync.

The free plan and the 30-day trial sync 1 book and 30 documents. Paid plans have generous fair-use limits. Notes are unlimited, and anything already synced keeps working if you downgrade. Sync limits and plans.

The Writing Desk app replaces it. Formatter remains the place for typesetting and export, and it still opens in any browser.

Update Writing Desk on your Mac to the latest version, then switch sync off and on again for the book. Fix sync problems.

Open the menu in the phone app and choose Delete account, below Sign out.