first alternative iPhone keyboard I've heard of.
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iA Writer for iPad, Mac, and now iPhone is a minimalist text editor that has turned design agency Information Architects into a full-blown app developer. Like WriteRoom, PlainText, and other similar text editors, its main feature is an absence of features, designed to remove distractions and aid focus on the task in hand. Writer offers a few twists, though — a modified iOS keyboard, seamless iCloud and Dropbox syncing, and a single, beautiful monospaced font (a modified version of Nitti Light) in a non-adjustable point. It makes for a great writing experience, and I can tell you personally that almost all my posts on this site start out as a blank fullscreen on Writer for Mac or iPad. An update adding iPhone support to the latter...