Glad it’s just 6 bucks down the toilet

I tried this app because Apple keeps ruining Pages with every revision and Write got fairly decent reviews. I don’t do complicated word processing—just letters and stories--but I do like to drag photos from the desktop of my Mac into letters and other documents. Technically you can do that with Write, but it won’t save the photo within the document. If you close the document and then re-open it, the photo will either be completely gone or will be displayed as a line of text appended with JPEG. Photos are also extremely difficult and awkward to manipulate for size and location within the document. Once you drag the photo into the document the best it will do for re-sizing it is to give you a little slider that adjusts the image size from 0-100%. Which is okay, but then you can’t use the mouse to drag the image around the page to relocate it. You have to use the tab or space bar for that, but even then there’s a weird vertical bar above the image, like it’s blocking the space above it so you can’t enter more text. The nice Pages feature that lets you move an image around with the cursor and automatically wraps text around it or beside it, depending on how you move the image, doesn’t exist as far as I can tell. It doesn’t matter, anyway, since the images don’t actually return once you’ve saved a document. That’s just useless. I don’t demand a lot of fancy functions from a word processor, but the ability to add a photo to a letter, manipulate it in a convenient way, and then have it stay in the document is pretty basic functionality that’s missing here.

Otherwise I prefer the layout of this word processor to what Pages has devolved into, and it includes a running page count along the bottom of the document, along with a live word count. It also tells you which page of the document you’re on: X of Y pages, in other words, which Pages no longer does because Apple can’t stop itself from ruining perfectly good apps. The upshot: If you’re confident that you’ll never want to add a photo or other image to a document, spend the six dollars. Otherwise, not.

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