PsyWriter ($0.99) is another entrant to the growing line of full-screen writing apps that try to offer “just enough” to help you get work done. All that PsyWriter really offers you is a blank space for a title and body text and the ability to swipe horizontally between files, but I have some a few major issues with the app that keep me from recommending it to anybody else.
Truly Awkward Text Selection
Unlike basically every other writing app out there, the text in PsyWriter is non-selectable – or at least not selectable in the way that I am used to. You can select text by tapping and holding on a line, but it’s so easily confused with the options to scroll between documents and to pan up and down the page that I found it hard to get any work done within the app. It would be much, much simpler if PsyWriter treated text as most every other note app does.
Too Minimal
There are no options to enable auto-correct (good for editing), no magnifying glass for precision placement of the text cursor, and holding down the backspace key to erase multiple words simply does not work. I simply feel that too much was cut from this app.
No Thanks
I can understand how PsyWriter would want to stick to the basics of just a title and body text, but it didn’t do just that. Instead, it went on a bit of a minimal killing spree and removed some of the best basic features of iOS. PsyWriter still wouldn’t be a fantastic app if it treated text normally, but it would certainly be far less obtuse.
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