looking for a text editor for iphone for serious work

I don't like spellcheck on iOS. It's basically just autocorrect.
I don't know what to tell you. I use Scrivener on iOS to write documents, I like it a lot more than, say, iA Writer, which I had used for over a year.
I've actually looked into this. I've tried Pages, which I didn't like.
It always comes back to the fact that spellcheck is horrible. What I end up doing, with Scrivener, is exporting the document into .docx format and sending it to Dropbox to spellcheck on my computer.
Scrivener probably isn't what you're looking for, plus it was twenty dollars.
I don't know why Apple would want people to replace their computers with iPad Pros when iOS isn't nearly as flexible as a computer.

I asked Apple Accessibility about spell checking with iOS. Their response is below and was very helpful:

"Thank you for your email. On the topic of spelling corrections, one suggestion we would make is to ensure both “Check Spelling” and “Auto-Correction” is on in Settings > General > Keyboards. In addition, we suggest to try turning on “Speak Auto-text” in Settings > General > Accessibility > Speech > Typing Feedback. With all 3 features are on, as you are typing if you misspell a word you will hear a sound effect followed by VoiceOver reading to you the suggested correction(s). To enact the correction just press the space bar and VoiceOver will read again the correction that was made. If you wish to manually replace a misspelled word, you will need to use the edit rotor to select the misspelled word first, cycle through the list of options and activate “replace.” This will activate a menu that will contain the approprate spelling replacements. Refer to the linked manual below.

help.apple.com/iPhone"

Also, both Pages and MS Word are fully functional sophisticated word processing programs that should fit your needs.

Hope that helps.

--Pete

I do a lot of writing on my iphone, and primarily write in Scrivener for its ability to quickly move between documents and organize them in whatever way you think best. You can also then merge all documents in a given folder easily if you should want to do that.

Then Voice Dream Writer has a spellchecker that's incredibly easy to use and the acapela voices for listening to your text with high quality voices.

Hi,

So what you need to do is go to tools, check spelling. You'll be presented with a list of misspelled words, which you can flick up and down through. When you see a word you want to correct, do a three finger swipe right, which will put you on the word finder. Make sure "phonetic search" is selected. You'll be presented with a list of suggestions. Swipe up or down on them to hear the actions in the actions rotor. Double tap when "replace" is selected, and the new correction will be made. Then just 3-finger swipe left again to get back to the list of misspelled words.

Hope this helps. I promise its not as tedious as it sounds, and with some practice you'll be able to do it quite quickly.

If you need me to upload an audio demo or something let me know.

As the subject line says, exporting to plain text was what caused the double spacing. Exporting to ritch text format works with no strange issues.

Hi,
Besides what everyone else has mentioned here, VoiceDream Writer uses a formatting syntax called MarkDown. You can get a program for Mac and PC called Pandoc that will handle footnotes, bibliographies, and conversions to many formats. So I would think that a good possible Workflow, once you have gotten Pandoc, would be to write on your phone, Save to DropBox, then convert with PanDoc.

I love to write and have been using notes. But notes is aweful. It won't read back what I have written and my work is loaded with typos because it just isn't as good.

What is the best MS word equivalent? Is Scrivener the best? Can you arrow back through what you have written to proof it like you would using Word?

I'm not sure if Word will work on my Ipad. I can't remember if I have tried that one or not. Does it work like the PC version?

Thanks guys!

Hi all,

For those using word, pages or scrivener, how do you deal with text navigation? I'm a PC writer mostly, and am very used to being able to quickly navigate by headings and especially paragraphs. I've noticed with Pages/Word, that isn't really possible. There's a difference between reading mode and writing mode on both, and just because I select a line of text to edit and double click it, doesn't mean my edit cursor is going to appear there. Writing is intuitive enough with a Bluetooth keyboard or M or the native braille keyboard, but text navigating is not, unless I'mr eally missing something. I'd love to do more serious writing on my Ipad, but I also want to be able to move seamlessly between it and my PC while preserving my text formatting.

Which brings me to another problem. Voice Dream Writer seems to be very intuitive in a unique way, but also seems ot lack the ability to import most document formats. I'd love to be able to export my nicely marked up dream witer document into Word, then open it on my PC, then re-import back into Dream Writer? Is this really not possible?

I have had issues with reading what I have written in Notes and some in pages as well. Document navigation needs improvement.

I'm going to give Pages a second chance. I've been able to work with a document this morning by keeping Pages in edit mode when both reading and editing. Not sure how long documents will work out, though. I think there were some problems with that in the past. It seems to have most of the features I need now.