Product & App Engineering

Miraquill

An iOS app for a writing community

Application development for a product centred on words, expression and discovery.

Miraquill — official iPhone listing image for exploration

Miraquill — official iPhone listing image for designing a post

The project

Miraquill brings writing into a social product experience. Daphnis contributed iOS application development.

About these images

Screens from the official iPhone listing, showing the published product.

Industry: Writing & community
Our role: iOS app development
Platform: iPhone
Community tools: Posts, likes & reposts

The published app

Published iPhone screen — the community feed

Writing, presentation and discovery

Official iPhone image — post design

Treat presentation as part of writing

The post designer brings colour, typography, alignment and image treatments beside a live preview. Writers can shape how their words look before finishing the post.

Official iPhone image — discovering writers

Make room for other writers

Explore separates Popular and Discover views. Author names and tags provide context, while likes, comments and repost controls let readers respond to the writing.

Miraquill — the current public website

Introduce the community outside the app

The website introduces the writing community and gives new visitors a route to download the app.

Explore this page

Explore the project

Official iPhone listingExplore the app and its published screens on the App Store.

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Define permissions around concrete actions, and make an approval apply to the exact message or record that will be changed.

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