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I imagine there is always room for another program. I'll be curious to see how it compares to what is already on the market. However, I am not hopeful it will be some obvious leap over what we have now.
One of his statements is, "The best writing application I ever used was an old version of Pages, back before Apple ruined the program." He goes on to describe distraction free writing. An awful lot of current programs include a low-distraction full-screen mode.
He goes on to mention his program "...doesn’t nag you for perfection in your rough draft. Misspelled words will not be underlined." Is finding the software switch to turn off spell check and/or grammar check all that hard in other programs?
A lot of the rest feels like what proper templates give us in other programs. When he gets to describing various features, the devil is in the execution. It is not trivial to provide users with powerful flexible features yet still have an intuitive interface.
The Darlings tab is the closest he comes to describing a versioning or snapshot tool. He does at least mention cloud save and sync but that is a very generic statement. Which services (Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, MS OneDrive, etcetera) and what are his ideas on resolving sync issues (a big issue with lots of programs)?
I may sound like I'm spitting on his attempt but I would look at his software if it ever comes to market. Like he says, nobody's software is perfect today.
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