The iA Writer alternative, at a fourth of the price

iA Writer is beautiful and $50. If you love the focus mode but can't justify the price, Enfoca is the honest alternative — with a hybrid engine iA has refused to ship.

Where iA Writer falls short

iA Writer in 2026

$50 price point feels like a statement, not a tool
Source-only editing; zero rendered preview while writing
Library model assumes you live in iCloud

What Enfoca does differently

$12.99 one-time, one-fourth the price
Hybrid engine — rendered page with markup on active line
Open any folder, not locked to a library model

The thing iA Writer can't do

iA Writer is a manifesto disguised as a text editor. Enfoca keeps the manifesto, drops the price, and adds the one feature iA refuses to build: seeing your rendered page as you write.

$12.99

One-time. No subscription. No cloud. No telemetry.

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Coming from iA Writer?

Enfoca reads any folder of .md files. Open your existing directory and keep working — no import, no migration.

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