EssayKraft

Changelog

What’s new in each version of EssayKraft for Mac and iPad, newest first.

2.2

Latest

New

  • Word targets. Set a word count for a document and watch a progress bar fill as you write.
  • Due dates. Give each essay its deadline, alongside its word target.
  • Language per document. Each document can have its own language setting.
  • Coloured citation labels. Give inline citations colours of their own, so sources are easy to tell apart on the page.

Fixed

  • An authorship record could sometimes be reported as verified when it shouldn’t have been.
  • References imported from Zotero didn’t always format correctly.
  • Footnotes lost their numbers when a document was saved as Word (.docx).
  • Padding didn’t apply correctly to Markdown documents.

2.1.1

Fixed

  • Bug fixes and stability improvements.

2.1

Improved

  • A selection-based editor. The formatting toolbar is gone. Formatting controls now appear where you select text.
  • More Liquid Glass. The glass design now runs through the rest of the app.

Fixed

  • Lots of bug fixes.

2.0

New

  • A new design. The Title Page and References panels float over your pages as glass cards. The toolbar tucks itself away while you write, and dark mode is true black.
  • Markdown documents. Write in Markdown alongside rich text, styled as you type, with its own typeface, column width and line height per document.
  • Sixteen citation styles. APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, ASA, IEEE, Vancouver and Turabian are joined by APA 6th, Chicago 17th, APSA, CSE, ACM, Elsevier Harvard, SAGE Harvard and Springer.
  • Import from Zotero and Mendeley. Bring references in as BibTeX or RIS, and export them back out.
  • Custom templates. Save any document as a template and start new ones from it in the template gallery.
  • Authorship tracking. A private record of how each document was written, kept on your device unless you choose to share it.
  • Your writing record. Tap or click the word count and it opens into a card with the document’s writing stats.
  • Predictive text. Optional, off by default and entirely on device. Accepted words are disclosed in the writing record.

Improved

  • Sorting the library works as expected, and Markdown documents carry a badge.
  • Documents reopen where you left off.
  • Citations on iPad are as accurate as on Mac.
  • Pages have gently rounded corners.

Fixed

  • The bibliography now always appears at the end of the document.
  • New documents no longer show a phantom second page.
  • Deleting a document could fail.
  • Smoother sidebar animation, and no stray Done button when opening Header & Footer.

1.x

The first releases on Mac and iPad: real pages with title pages, headers, footers and footnotes, inline citations with an automatic bibliography, Find Online, templates, and export to PDF, Word and RTF.