The changes just appear in the other app. True, except that the iCloud sync behaves much better if a file is simultaneously open in both apps. When you make a change to an iCloud file (on the Mac side, an explicit save, on the iPad side an automatic local save), it is automatically sent to iCloud and pushed to the other site. On iaWriter Mac, you get a command in the file menu for iCloud, which has a sublisting of all the files iaWriter is managing in iCloud, along with commands to move the current file to or from iCloud. Where the iCloud thing gets really cool is if you are running iaWriter on both iPad and Mac. (As a side note, iaWriter has improved its Dropbox sync from “show-stoppingly bad” to “works with a couple of annoyances”, the main annoyance being that it doesn’t remember your place in the Dropbox file hierarchy.) iCloud saves automatically, but Dropbox lets you use subfolders. ![]() If you are just using the iPad version then there is not much difference between iCloud and Dropbox. In iaWriter, iCloud shows up as a storage location, on par with internal iPad and Dropbox storage. iaWriter is the first writing program I use to move to the iCloud future (though there are some games and other programs that also sync via iCloud already).Īt a technical level, the integration is fantastic. The thing that’s changed my editor use in the last couple of months is iaWriter Mac and iOS adding iCloud support, even more deeply integrated than Apple’s own applications. If I don’t write about iOS editors every few months, then it’s harder for me to justify continuing to mess around with them…
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