Developer Agile Tortoise on Friday announced its entry in the ever-crowded field of iOS text editors. The company's Phraseology,
only for the iPad, is aimed at professional writers and combines a
simple interface designed to minimize distraction with a number of tools
for analyzing and working with text.
Unique features of Phraseology include a special Arrange view that
lets you easily rearrange paragraphs by simply dragging them up or down
in a list, and an Inspect tool that provides detailed information about a
document. The latter feature includes such metrics as readability
scores (based on a number of rating and index systems) and average
sentence length. It also provides summary charts, such as a list of the
most frequently used words in a document; tap on a word to view every
occurrence of that word, in context, in a scrolling list. If you want to
replace a particular occurrence with a different word, just tap and
you're taken back to the document with the word already selected. If you
also have the company's Terminology dictionary app
installed, Phraseology lets you look up word definitions and
replacements with Terminology instead of iOS's built-in dictionary.
Like many iPad text editors, Phraseology provides a selections of fonts and font sizes, and it supports the Markdown
markup language for formatting plain text, offering a live preview and
HTML exporting. However, the app doesn't currently support iCloud,
Dropbox, or other cloud-storage options, nor does it work with iTunes'
File Sharing feature for transferring documents to apps. Instead, you
get existing documents into Phraseology by transferring them from
another app using iOS's Open In feature; you can export documents out of
Phraseology the same way, making the app perhaps more of a complement
to other text editors than a standalone editor.
Phraseology is currently on sale for an introductory price of $2; the developer hasn't announced what the normal price will be.
By Dan Frakes, Macworld
By Dan Frakes, Macworld
0 comments:
Post a Comment