adoc Studio - Writing App

🤷🏻‍♂️ more like asciidoc lite…. Imagine asciidoc but developed by temu merchants….. Lacking many features. Overall the UI is not intuitive at all. Trying to do something as simple as switching the editor’s styles from one to the other causes the setting pop out to hang indefinitely. Requiring you to either close the setting pop out and reopen just to switch to another style if you are trying to cycle thru them all to pick one that suits you.

I read the other review on this app before trying it out, and was hoping it wasn’t that bad - but it is. As soon as I start writing any kind of lengthy document, I can’t see what I’m typing because the editor is constantly scrolling to the top of the document. CLI does better than this for writing with asciidoc.

I had high hopes for this app as I have been looking for an app for iOS that would allow me to generate and preview Asciidoc files. Some of the things I really like about this app are: - The preview of the document that I am working on - Spell checking of the document - Organization of the project into a folder and automatic addition of the media folder - Creation of a config file that defines how the rendered docs look What I don’t like about this app: - Spell check would underline correctly spelled words and would not give me any suggestions for why it was saying the word was wrong - Document would scroll to the top whenever I attempted to move through lines using the arrow keys on the Apple Magic Keyboard for the 12.9 iPad (closing and re-opening the app resolved this) - The automatic creation of .iCloud files. I don’t use iCloud for my docs but instead use a repository where I can get revisions and manage the files like code. I would like to have preferred an option to turn this off. All of these issues could be worked around as they are not deal breakers for the most part. What made them a deal breaker is having to pay $15/month or $150/year for an app that is unpolished, has bugs and forces the use of a service I do not care to use as I have other cloud storage options that I prefer over to iCloud. One time payment of $15, maybe I would just buy it and find ways to make things work. Continual payment for an app that behaves like this one does, not a chance. I’m instead making due with Textastic for the document editing and Working Copy for the git workflow management. It’s not the perfect solution but they are a one time cost and I can work around the issues and wants that these applications lack.