Zoho Writer - Document Editor

Name: Zoho Writer - Document Editor
Rating: 2.95789 (95 reviews)

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User Reviews for Zoho Writer - Document Editor

Buggy

I’m a fan of zoho for the most part. But being a business owner and especially one that writes software ourselves, it seems to me that zoho tries to do way too much and doesn’t pay attention to detail. Slow down. If you’re going to build an app, at least let me get past the first page which shows me how to swipe left or right for more options. I don’t care about options if I can’t use them. Don’t block the interface with tool tips and no way to get it out of the way. God gave you a brain. You’re smart. Use some common sense.

Ash&jon, Jan 31, 2019

Great look, too many problems

Most concerning is that when I use my microphone to input text, sometimes the text disappears. This has happened several times in the course of the last half an hour since I downloaded the app, so I am going to get rid of my account because it’s just not usable for me.Also: less concerning but slightly time-consuming it is the fact that every time I navigate away from the screen, it has to reload my document.And finally, I couldn’t figure out if there was a “select all” option. I saw cut and basic select, but for my work, “select all” is a must-have capability. Maybe I’m just silly couldn’t figure it out, but that played a small role in my decision to stop using this app.

Christy Luis, Aug 05, 2018

Ooooof

My friend and I use Zoho to share our collaborative stories with each other. The website works well enough, and we have a great time editing with each other live. The app on the other hand offers none of the convenience of the site. Typing lags so far behind what you are writing, you might as well be carving it into a stone tablet. And heaven forbid you want to copy and paste more than one word into it. The thing bogs down to near crashing with as few as 20 words selected to be pasted. We have had more than a few issues where it will randomly place our curser somewhere else in the document while we are using the app, and we will lose random sentence fragments pages away from where we had been working. If they even get written down at all. And don’t you dare even think about any kind of formatting while on the app, it won’t translate to the site version. You won’t get any of the double space periods your phone placed in there either. Don’t forget about the weird random extra spaces between words that you get as well. That’s if it doesn’t just not save huge chunks of text at random.We still use the site, and will keep using the site, but we cannot safely use the app and you cannot either. At least not until an acceptable update makes it useable.

Edme, Aug 13, 2019

Love Writer, but Not the iPad app

I like Zoho’s products a lot, they’re free and they get the job done just as well as Docs or Word. I love the interface on the desktop app, and the phone app is a great companion, especially when using notes on one and writing on the other. Where the issue lies is with the iPad app, it constantly crashes and gives me a message that it couldn’t save and deletes a portion of my progress. Sometimes I need to write on the iPad for convenience or because I cannot get to my computer, and the issues that the app has makes it easier to write them somewhere else then copy and paste to my existing document.

LeSage08, Jun 30, 2020

Good but needs a feature or two

I actually really like this idea, being able to type up a document and know that it will still be there no matter what happens to the data on my local device. Writer is one of a few good options out there. However, writer lacks some features.Writer lacks the nice spacing on either side of the text, the left and right margins. Many other note taking and word apps nicely highlight the text via those margins. Even Zoho docs does it, so why not this app? They need to give it more of a page feel in my opinion or at least have this as an option.Then there is search. I would like to be able to search within my documents. It is easier to find content this way. Right now it appears to only be able to search file names. Last but not least, it would be nice to be able to multi-select items within this app to send them all to another app or drive. Far too many apps lack this very basic feature and it would be very worth while to add it to writer.Besides these missing features though it is a good alternative to Google docs. Keep up the good work!

Mike000000000000007, Feb 27, 2019

Not usable

There is a lot to like about this app. After doing some research it fit my needs best. But it freezes often, every 30 minutes before iOS 13 and more frequently now. You can’t write a period the usual way. For example, that last period came as all of mine do on an iPhone: two taps of the space bar. On this app a period is there until you save the file. Then it’s gone. So I changed my style to actually type a period, but it seems some of these disappear, too! These are issues are PRIOR TO iOS 13. Under 13 it’s even worse. They couldn’t write the app properly for 12. Why should I think they can fix it for 13?

Natefair62, Oct 07, 2019

Nice simple app. Works very well.

I’ve tried a lot of writing apps, but I keep coming back to this one because it is simple and it just works very well for what I need. Would like to see a dark mode option for iOS, but other than that it pretty much does everything I need it to do.

prushin68, Dec 25, 2021

Good idea but doesn’t work yet

I’m on a paid account. The service concept is similar to Google’s Docs but doesn’t work as well.In the app: documents can only be viewed in icon view. C’mon, 1984 is long gone. Where are the lists views? Sort by name, date, type, etc.Search function searches only file names, not file contents. Cannot save files into a new Folder.Cannot delete files.Cannot share files into another Zoho app, eg: ProjectsTypeface changes randomly after a server error.Cannot tell which changes have been saved and which one not saved since last auto-save. I experience constant “connection interrupted” and “server errors”. Each forces a page reload which dumps all changes since the last auto-save. Very annoying.(Is this me, my China connection, or Zoho’s servers?)Update, October 2018Zoho Customer service is responsive; they try hard to solve Customer complaints. My “connection interrupted”issues persist. This must be caused by my internet connection; the Service provider is called _Great Wall_ after all.

stephen•ph, Oct 04, 2018

Updated Review - Documents Retrieved

**UPDATED REVIEW I’m updating this review from 3-4 stars because I was able to retrieve my documents from the second time they were deleted with the help of zoho support. The first time i lost my documents, I got a new phone and lost the documents in the transfer since I did not have an account. I’m relieved I was able to retrieve at least some very important documents! ~~~~~First review: I was really enjoying using this writer tool (via app.) You can add a lock to your documents which is great. Documents and revisions automatically save. The app does not require you to have an account in order to start writing but BEWARE your files will disappear (I’m unsure if they are able to be retrieved). I am thinking it happened when I recently turned my phone off and back on. I had months of some really important writing - all gone. This is a writer’s nightmare. If anyone knows how I might retrieve these documents please reach out! Again, I did not have an account as the app DOES NOT require it - maybe that needs to change so this doesn’t continue to happen.

talkinhead24, Mar 02, 2022

Great start but lacks some basic features

I use Zoho for everything and I love it but this app and the other desktop versions of Writer are missing one really important feature. Being able to put the file into a specific folder. I don’t like having to remember to go into Docs and moving it after it is created. Also, since Workdrive is headed to replace Docs it would be nice if we could choose to save to their as well. I have noticed some lag the bigger the file gets but for the most part it gets the job done.

Venessa711, Apr 21, 2019

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