App: Katib كاتب
Developer: Abdullah Arif
Genres: Produktivität, Dienst­programme

Katib is a distraction-free text editor for languages that are written from right to left.
Whether it is Arabic, Farsi, or Urdu, we sweat the important details like typographical excellence, usable bi-directional text editing, and simple Markdown formatting so that you can focus on writing and being productive. 

With multiple export options and 4 dazzling publishing templates that exemplify the greatest in Arabic digital typography, you can guarantee that your text will both impress and delight your audience.

Features:
- Support for languages written from right to left. In Arabic script: Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Syriac, Uyghur, etc. In Hebrew script: Hebrew, Yiddish.
- Minimalistic, distraction-free interface
- Pre-configured and pre-caliberated typographical settings for languages written in Arabic script
- Type Arabic without the need for an Arabic keyboard using our auto transliteration feature
- Advanced control over fonts and the ability to select your own fonts
- BiDi Hyperaware: automatic text direction detection depending on language
- Complete support for Markdown formatting and syntax highlighting
- For languages written in Arabic script: experience improvements in Arabic typing with Mursal Type: the initial letter in every word assumes the connected form until proven otherwise. The result is less jitter in your editor.
- For Arabic & Hebrew and any other language with diacritics: ability to highlight diacritical marks such as tashkil.
- Ability to strip diacritics from text
For Arabic: the ability to insert Unicode joining and directionality marks right from the edit menu
- Live Preview: preview the rendered result of your document in a separate window. The preview refreshes periodically and also syncs the scroll bars.
- Night mode support: a night theme tailored of low-light settings
- Full screen mode
- Format sidebar: a sidebar to aid in inserting text formatting marks
- Responsive text sizing: text and format sidebar adjust size depending on the current window size
- Save in Markdown or plain text
- Export your document to HTML, PDF, or Microsoft Word. The export and preview functions also recognize MultiMarkdown syntax.
-  iCloud support

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تَطبيق كاتب هو مُحرر نُصوص ثنائي الإتجاه لنظام OS X يدعم اللغات التي تكتب من اليمين الى اليسار مثل العربية والفارسية والعبرية والأوردو والكردية والبشتو، ويدعم محاذاتها تلقائياً كما يدعم الخلط بينها وبين اللاتينية.

من مميزاته:

- اكتشاف تلقائي لإتجاه الكتابة.
- واجهة مبسطة خالية من التعقيدات.
- دعم متكامل لرموز التنسيق [ماركداون].
- تحكم راقي بنوع وحجم الخط.
- دعم الأرقام العربية والفارسية في تكوين القوائم.
- تصدير المستند إلى صيغ PDFو HTML ومسنتدات Word.
- تَلْوينْ عَلامَات التَشْكيل.
- تعديل تلقائي لحجم النص بشكل يناسب أبعاد النافذة.
- عرض مباشر لشكل المستند النهائي في عدة قوالب جميلة
- نمط ليلي لراحة الأعين.
- إحصائيات عن المستند تشمل عدد الكلمات والأحرف والجمل.
- دعم iCloud
- ...والمزيد!

Release notes:
Maximum apologies for the delay!

This is mostly a performance and bug-fix release, but is noticeably snappier especially for users on macOS 10.11+:

- Fix scroller lag and jumpiness.
- Performance improvements for users on macOS 10.11 and newer.
- NEW! experimental insertion caret: it makes visible the glyph shape underneath it. Very useful in Arabic where letters are connected.
- Improve text zooming. Line heights and margins are now proportional.
- Fix bug where Markdown links were improperly shown in RTL context.
- Compatibility updates and fixes.

Stay tuned for new features and performance improvements!