The first words I typed were not on a computer keyboard or a glass screen, but on an old mechanical typewriter. I loved that machine and produced quite a few home newspapers, stories, and essays on it. I still remember the satisfying sound of the keys striking the paper and miss that feeling when typing on modern devices.
8 December 2025
Introducing Text Transforms
The new Transform tool in I Write Like adds 32 useful text transformations that you can apply to your text with a single click.
2 December 2025
macOS and iOS apps updated
New versions of our IWL: Smarter Writing app for Mac, iPhone and iPad are now available on the App Store.
26 November 2025
Smoother typewriter mode
Typewriter mode in I Write Like keeps your cursor vertically centered on the screen as you type, providing a comfortable writing experience: you don’t have to look down at the bottom of the screen while typing. However, it didn’t provide a great experience when you scrolled manually, as the cursor would jump back to the center immediately after you stopped scrolling or when you tried to select something, so you had to turn it off for editing. It’s better now! First of all, it now only recenters the cursor when you type, not when you select or scroll. Secondly, it now smoothly recenters the cursor instead of jumping abruptly, making the experience much more pleasant.
1 November 2025
Backup all your files in one click
Since IWL is completely private, unlike Google Docs, Microsoft 365, and various other cloud systems, it stores unsaved files in your browser’s local storage (unless you opt-in to sync them with Dropbox), and works just like a desktop application: clicking Save saves or downloads your file to disk. While this keeps your texts private, it also means that if you clear your browser data or switch devices, you may lose them. We remind users of this in the File Manager.
We learned that some users don’t regularly save their files in the web version of I Write Like and have accumulated many unsaved files in the File Manager, so we created a solution for them.
15 September 2025
Apple Notes now supports Markdown export and import
With the release of macOS 26 Tahoe, Apple Notes has gained the ability to export and import notes in Markdown format. This new feature makes it much easier to move texts between Apple Notes and IWL and other Markdown-based text tools without losing formatting or manually converting text to other formats.
9 July 2025
15 Years of I Write Like
Fifteen years ago, I launched I Write Like — a playful little website that analyzes your writing and tells you which famous author you write like. What started as a weekend experiment quickly went viral, with millions of people pasting in everything from essays to fan fiction to grocery lists. It struck a nerve: part game, part curiosity, part validation.
20 June 2025
Mistral models in Edit with AI and more
30 May 2025