The apps I have used for writing — and why I love writing in UpNote

Most people tell you that you shouldn’t use your notes app for writing in. I stead you should use a dedicated writing application. Especially if it allows you to upload directly to your blogging site. Over the years I have used a lot of apps to write in. Now, I do it all in UpNote. So here are some mini-reviews of the apps I have used for writing — and why I love using UpNote.

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For this post, I am only talking about short form blogs and articles.

Blogo

This is a Mac app that I used very briefly for writing my early blog posts in.

I really did like it at first but I moved away from it quickly in the end. This app doesn’t exist anymore so I won’t review it further.

I stopped using it as it was apple only, and whilst it did sync, in theory, from Mac to iOS, my iOS apps kept crashing. Avoid!

SimpleNote

I enjoyed using this app and would recommend it highly for a writing app. https://simplenote.com/

It’s free, syncs between devices and platforms so can be used on apple, windows and…