The Mac is a great tool for writers, with a plethora of software available for any kind of writing. It doesn't matter if you're a student spending long nights on your big paper, a journalist writing up your latest scoop, or a novelist furiously typing away on your next opus — there's an app for you on the Mac.

Scrivener is the ultimate book-organization tool. It allows you to view your notes, research, outline, and writing all in one place, and you can print your whole manuscript with the click of your mouse. There’s a bit of a learning curve, but Scrivener comes with tutorials, and many other such aids are easily found online. It may look overwhelming at first (I’m still learning it myself.

Ulysses

Ulysses offers a full array of tools for writers of any kind. This app is easy to pick up and start using but offers a wide array of customization options for everything from writing to exporting. Choose to work in Markdown or create your own markup style. With Ulysses, you can also create your own writing environment with everything from background colors to fonts. When it comes time to publish, you can export your work in a variety of formats, including plain text, DOCX, and ePub. You can also publish your work to WordPress sites and Medium.

Your projects all sync with iCloud between Mac, iPhone, and iPad, with Dropbox support also available. The app also recently added support for Touch ID to keep your documents safe.

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Byword

'Simple but effective' is the best way to describe Byword. With this Markdown-focused writing app, you start with a blank document and just write. It's a minimalist app with only a few settings to fuss with, and Byword really only cares about getting you writing. Your documents sync between Mac, iPhone, and iPad using iCloud Drive, though you can also store them in Dropbox.

When it comes to publishing, you've got options for PDF and HTML. You can also post what you've written to blogging services such as Medium, WordPress, Tumblr, and Blogger, or you could send your document to Evernote.

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iA Writer

iA Writer's gone through quite a few changes over the years. Where the previous Pro app tried to break down your writing into a flow between notes and writing and editing, the modern iA Writer focuses on having your write in plain text, with full Markdown support. That's not to say that there aren't advanced features, however, as there are quite a few. Syntax Control breaks down your writing to show you the structure, highlighting adjectives, nouns, conjunctions, and more. Link to other documents in iA Writer to combine them into a single project, or link to images or spreadsheet files to see them in iA Writer's Preview screen in a number of different templates.

Like other apps on this list, iA Writer lets you publish to blogs, in this case, WordPress and Medium. You can also export your work in Markdown, PDF, HTML, and Microsoft Word.

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Scrivener

Scrivener is nothing short of a full-featured suite of tools for writers. Novels, scripts, essays, research papers, it doesn't matter, because Scrivener supports all of them. Organize your ideas on digital notecards and lay them out on the corkboard to see how your work fits together. Import images, PDF and other media you've used as research to refer to it later. Keep your work segmented for easier organization and edition, while maintaining its structure with the Binder. And each part of the app can be customized to create the exact writing environment that you need. It's actually hard to encapsulate just how many options Scrivener gives you.

When you're done, compile your project into a single document, and export in formats like DOC, rich text, PDF, ePub, Kindle, and even export for other apps like Final Draft. Away from your Mac? You can also check out Scrivener for iPhone and iPad, which lets you work on your Scrivener projects no matter where you are.

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Blogo

Blogo is a standout amongst our selections here because while many of these apps allow you to publish to the web, that's Blogo's explicit purpose. Open up Blogo and sign in to your WordPress, Blogger, or Medium account and start writing those hot takes. Manage everything from your post's title to its tags, preview your posts, and images. Write in Markdown or rich text, insert inline HTML and code blocks, and keep track of your writing goals. You can also perform some basic photo editing, cropping and resizing photos, and even adding effects and filters.

While Blogo is free up front, you can subscribe to Blogo Pro for $2.99 per month (or $24.99 for a year) to get access to more advanced features. You'll be able to add as many accounts as you want, get access to the Media Search feature to easily find videos, images, GIFs, and more, and on certain accounts, you can even moderate and reply to comments.

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Bear

A relatively new app compared to the rest of the list, Bear might seem simple, but it offers a great deal of flexibility for handling text. It's true that Bear is good for both notes and todo checklists, but it's support for Markdown, a variety of themes, and simple organization makes it a great tool for many different kinds of writing. Add images, files, code blocks, and more to spice up your work and give it more context.

In terms of options, you've got few. Choose how to sort your documents, pick a theme, pick your font, and even control fine-grain details such as font size, line height and width, and paragraph spacing. Subscribe to Bear Pro for $1.49 per month in order to sync your documents between Bear for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

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Pages

Apple's own writing app, Pages lets you create all sorts of documents. There are more than 60 templates in Pages, covering just about every kind of writing, from short essays to research papers. There are even templates for items like business cards and flyers. You can add images and shapes, layout your documents in different styles, and more. You can also secure documents with Touch ID if you have one of Apple's 2016 MacBook Pros with Touch Bar.

Pages also makes it easy to collaborate with other people. Multiple people, whether they're on macOS, iOS, or even Windows thanks to iCloud.com, can collaborate on a document at the same time. You can share collaborative documents publicly or with specific users, see who is in the document at any given time, and follow their cursors as they edit the project.

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Applies to: Azure Information Protection, Office 365

Use the following information to identify the applications and solutions that natively support the Azure Rights Management service (Azure RMS), which provides the data protection for Azure Information Protection.

For these applications and solutions, Rights Management support is tightly integrated by using the Rights Management APIs to support usage restrictions. These applications and solutions are also known as 'RMS-enlightened.'

Unless stated otherwise, the supported capabilities apply to both Azure RMS and AD RMS. In addition, AD RMS support on iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows Phone 8.1 requires Active Directory Rights Management Services Mobile Device Extension.

RMS-enlightened applications

The following table displays RMS-enlightened client applications from Microsoft and software vendors.

For information about viewing protected PDF documents, see Protected PDF readers for Microsoft Information Protection.

Information about the table columns:

• Email: The email clients that are listed can protect the email message itself, which automatically protects any attached Office files that are not already protected. In this scenario, the client’s preview feature can display the protected content (message and attachment) to authorized recipients. However, if an email message itself is not protected but the attachment is protected, the client’s preview feature cannot display the protected attachment to authorized recipients.

  Tip: For email clients that don't support protecting emails, consider using Exchange Online mail flow rules to apply this protection.

• Other file types: Text and image files include files that have a file name extension such as .txt, .xml, .jpg, and .jpeg. These files change their file name extension after they are natively protected by Rights Management, and become read-only. Files that cannot be natively protected have a .pfile file name extension after they are generically protected by Rights Management. For more information, see the File types supported from the Azure Information Protection client admin guide.

Device operating system	Word, Excel, PowerPoint	Email	Other file types
Windows	Office 365 apps [1] Office 2010 Office 2013 Office 2016 Office 2019 Office for the web (viewing protected documents) [2] Web browser [3]	Outlook 2010 Outlook 2013 Outlook 2016 Outlook 2019 Outlook from Office 365 ProPlus Web browser [4] Windows Mail [5]	Visio from Office 365 apps, Office 2019, and Office 2016: .vsdm, .vsdx, .vssm, .vstm, .vssx, .vstx Azure Information Protection client for Windows: Text, images, pfile SealPath RMS plugin for AutoCAD: .dwg
iOS	GigaTrust Office Mobile Office for the web [2] TITUS Docs Web browser [3]	Azure Information Protection app (viewing protected email) BlackBerry Work Citrix WorxMail NitroDesk [5] Outlook for iPad and iPhone [5] TITUS Mail Web browser [4]	Azure Information Protection app (viewing protecting text and images) TITUS Docs: Pfile
Android	GigaTrust App for Android Office for the web [2] Office Mobile (unless using sensitivity labels, limited to viewing and editing protected documents) Web browser [3]	9Folders [5] Azure Information Protection app (viewing protected emails) BlackBerry Work GigaTrust App for Android [5] Citrix WorxMail NitroDesk [5] Outlook for Android [5] Samsung Email (S3 and later) [5] TITUS Classification for Mobile Web browser [4]	Azure Information Protection app (viewing protected text and images)
macOS	Office 365 apps Office 2019 for Mac Office 2016 for Mac Office for the web [2] Web browser [3]	Outlook 2019 for Mac Outlook 2016 for Mac Web browser [4]	RMS sharing app (viewing protected text, images, generically protected files)
Windows 10 Mobile	Office Mobile apps (viewing protected documents using Azure RMS) Web browser [3]	Citrix WorxMail Outlook Mail (viewing protected emails) Web browser [4]	Not supported
Blackberry 10	Web browser [3]	Blackberry email [5] Web browser [4]	Not supported

Footnote 1

Includes:

• Office apps minimum version 1805, build 9330.2078 from Office 365 Business or Microsoft 365 Business when the user is assigned a license for Azure Rights Management (also known as Azure Information Protection for Office 365)
• Office 365 ProPlus apps

Footnote 2

Supported only with Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive, and the documents are unprotected before they are uploaded to a protected library.

Footnote 3

For Office attachments that are protected by using Office 365 Message Encryption with the new capabilities.

Footnote 4

If the sender and the recipient are part of the same organization. Or either of the following conditions:

• The sender or the recipient are using Exchange Online.
• The sender is using Exchange on-premises in a hybrid configuration.

Footnote 5

Uses Exchange ActiveSync IRM, which must be enabled by the Exchange administrator. Users can view, reply, and reply all for protected email messages but users cannot protect new email messages.

If the email application cannot render the message because the Exchange ActiveSync IRM is not enabled, the recipient can view the email in a web browser when the sender uses Exchange Online, or Exchange on-premises in a hybrid configuration.

More information about Azure RMS support for Office

Azure RMS is tightly integrated into the Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook apps, where this functionality is often referred to as Information Rights Management (IRM).

See also: Office Applications Service Description

Windows computers for Information Rights Management (IRM)

The following Office client suites support protecting files and emails on Windows computers by using the Azure Rights Management service:

• Office apps minimum version 1805, build 9330.2078 from Office 365 Business or Microsoft 365 Business when the user is assigned a license for Azure Rights Management (also known as Azure Information Protection for Office 365)

• Office 365 ProPlus

  These editions of Office are included with most but not all Office 365 subscriptions that include data protection from Azure Information Protection. Check your subscription information to see if Office 365 ProPlus is included. You'll also find this information in the Azure Information Protection datasheet.

• Office Professional Plus 2019

• Office Professional Plus 2016

• Office Professional Plus 2013

• Office Professional Plus 2010 with Service Pack 2

All editions of Office (with the exception of Office 2007) support consuming protected content.

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When you use the Azure Rights Management service with Office Professional Plus 2010 and Service Pack 2 or Office Professional 2010 with Service Pack 2:

• Requires the Azure Information Protection client for Windows.

• Not supported on Windows 10.

• Does not support forms-based authentication for federated user accounts. These accounts must use Windows Integrated Authentication.

• Does not support overriding template protection with custom permissions that a user selects with the Azure Information Protection client. In this scenario, the original protection must first be removed before custom permissions can be applied.

Mac computers for Information Rights Management (IRM)

The following Office client suites support protecting files and emails on macOS by using Azure RMS:

• Office 365 ProPlus

• Office Standard 2019 for Mac

• Office Standard 2016 for Mac

All editions of Office for Mac 2019 and Office for Mac 2016 support consuming protected content.

Tip: To get started with protecting documents by using Office for Mac, you might find the following FAQ useful: How do I configure a Mac computer to protect and track documents?

More information about the Azure Information Protection app for iOS and Android

Mac Document Management Software

The Azure Information Protection app for iOS and Android provides a viewer for rights-protected email messages (.rpmsg files) when these mobile devices don't have an email app that can open protected emails. This app can also open rights-protected PDF files, and pictures and text files that are rights-protected.

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If your iOS and Android devices are enrolled by Microsoft Intune, users can install the app from the Company Portal and you can manage the app by using Intune's app protection policies.

For more information about how to use app, see the FAQ for Microsoft Azure Information Protection app for iOS and Android.

More information about the Azure Information Protection client for Windows

For more information, see the following resources:

• Azure Information Protection client administrator guides:

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• Azure Information Protection client user guides:

Download the relevant app by using the links on the Microsoft Azure Information Protection page.

More information about the Rights Management sharing app

For Mac computers, the Rights Management sharing app offers a viewer for protected PDF files (.ppdf), protected text images, and generically protected files. It can also protect image files, but not other files. To protect Office files on these computers, use Office for Mac or Office 365 ProPlus.

For more information, see the following resources: Macos app to find files easily on mac computer.

Download the Rights Management sharing app for Mac computers by using the link on the Microsoft Azure Information Protection page.

More information about other applications that support Azure Information Protection

In addition to the applications in the table, any application that supports the APIs for the Azure Rights Management service can be integrated with Azure Information Protection, which includes:

• Line-of-business applications that are written in-house by using the RMS SDKs

• Applications from software vendors that are written by using the RMS SDKs.

For more information, see the Azure Information Protection Developer's Guide.

Applications that are not supported by Azure RMS

The following applications that are not currently supported by Azure RMS include the following:

• Microsoft OneDrive for SharePoint Server 2013

• XPS Viewer

In addition, the Azure Information Protection client has the following restrictions:

• For Windows computers: Requires a minimum version of Windows 7 Service Pack 1

RMS-enlightened solutions

For the latest information about solutions that support the Azure Rights Management service and Azure Information Protection, see the blog post, Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Microsoft Information Protection solutions Partner ecosystem showcase.

Next steps

To check for other requirements, see Requirements for Azure Information Protection.

For more information about how the most commonly used applications support the Azure Rights Management service, see How applications support the Azure Rights Management service.

For information about how to configure the most commonly used applications for the Azure Rights Management service, see Configuring applications for Azure Rights Management.