Australian startup, UX Productivity today announces UX Write 1.0, a brand-new word processor for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. UX Write is designed for high-end professional authoring tasks, and supports many features that are normally only found in desktop word processors. Facilitating working with large, complex documents such as reports, theses, and books, it supports styles, cross-references, automatic section numbering, extensive formatting options, figures, tables, and more.
UX Productivity's founder, Dr. Peter Kelly, explained the motivation behind the app as follows: "I think the iPad is a great device, but as a professional academic, none of the existing word processors came anywhere close to meeting my needs for writing research papers and books. I realized this was a market gap just waiting to be filled, so I decided to start work on UX Write. Nine months later, I'm proud to have the first version available to users."
According to Kelly, this is just the beginning of what he intends on being an ongoing journey. "There's a number of features yet to be added - including bibliographic citations, an equation editor, as well as Microsoft Word and LaTeX support. But these are all in the pipeline and will be coming soon."