Author
Minimalist writing, powerful tools
Author Features
Try the free ‘Author | Basic’ which has all the features of the full Author except for ‘Export’. You can upgrade to the full Author anytime should you wish to export your document to Word, RTF and PDF formats. If you like, please have a look at the Walkthrough Video.
What People Are Saying
Adam Cheyer, inventor of Siri:
“Frode Hegland's Augmented Text tools are essential components for textual thought productivity. These tools espouse many of the philosophies of Doug Engelbart, one of the greatest thinkers in computer science history. Hence, making these tools widely available is quite important both for historical purposes, as well as everyday use practical purposes.”
Bruce Horn, programmer of the original Finder in the original Macintosh:
“The original vision for the Macintosh was to bring the power of computing to the creative class. Frode Hegland’s Augmented Text Suite is to writing what the Adobe Creative Suite is to multimedia: an enormously powerful set of tools to enable writers and thinkers to do their best work. There have been few advances in this area since the invention of the word processor, and none as well thought-out or accessible as Author and the accompanying Reader and Liquid apps.”
Vint Cerf co-inventor of the Internet:
“Authors experience a new intimacy with the semantics and structure of what they are writing. All of this improves clarity with an economy that is awesome in its simplicity and power” Vint Cerf describes the power of Author in the academic journal ACM Communications.
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App Store Reviews:
“Perfect for grad students. Very intuitive to use and makes citing while writing a breeze! by Niko Aliyev
Amazing work tool! The best thing about it: the automatic references and formatting of citations has saved me a lot of time by CarinaDangas
The most innovative and useful writing tool I know! As a writer it's the most innovative and useful tool I have ever seen. by thatkeith
It's magic for academic papers. I think it's fab by Lenaremo
WOW! Its a dream application, mind-map, multi-cut and free form margin notes by Frank Ferraro
At last … an editor I actually want to use … Game changing by Ginoid Little.
Highly recommend!!! Such a great app! by Sazzalouise1993
Miracle when writing essays. Aside from the beautifully clean layout of Author this app is such a time saver! by Lucianroberts.
The 21st century way to write academic papers. Author completely removes the dreaded work of organizing and adding citations to a paper by Rod Rosa.
Very Forward thinking. So many writing apps are focused only on the new UI trends. This app is for writers who need functionality and ease. Wonderful work! by Talker3683”
& many more great reviews on the macOS App Store
free Trial
Try the free version ‘Author | Basic’
It does not feature ‘Export’ but you can upgrade to full Author anytime.
Integrated Journal
You can access your Journal at any time with cmd-J.
powerful PDFs from Author to Reader
PDF documents exported from Author makes the reading experience in the free PDF viewer ‘Reader’ richly and powerfully interactive.
Work at the speed of thought
Instantly interact with all the text in Author and all your other text applications with the free Liquid companion application for instant searches and more.
macOS App Store ratings
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