Q: Other Word Processors than Pages? & why do we have to pay for an upgrade that is incomplete?

I have just been doing some web searches. I am certainly NOT upgrading to Mavericks. Custom fonts apparently do not work and cause iWorks to crash and need to be reinstalled. I really can't be bothered going through this hassle!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5476685

https://discussions.apple.com/message/23586735#23586735

Apple, this is not good enough! Surely such a big company has the resources to do things properly? Don't you realise people rely on your products for their work, their employment, their income? Don't you understand that reliability beats bells and whistles?

I would certainly appreciate anyone's advice on word processors that can be used on Mac and iOs devices that can sync via the iCloud, that are able to use bold, italic, underline and basic text formatting. i.e. something like Pages that I can switch to.

Thanks Tom! Following your advice I posted a (shorter) version at feedback.

And thanks for those hints. Yes I've been looking at those ones.

IA Writer and Byword both can use the iCloud.

Writeroom only syncs using Dropbox.

Of course they're very minimal apps compared to Pages, or Word.

I feel very depressed.

Perhaps I will have to use one of these and then import into Word for final editing.

Believe it or not, for a minute I thought MS Word might be a contender for iOS syncing - because there is this thing called Office 365. But look at the reviews.

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/office-mobile-for-office-365/id541164041

I really don't want to deal with all the problems of updating to Mavericks just now.

Textilus looks pretty good, actually... I'm going to download it and have a play with it! (the free version)

But I have so many documents in Pages.

I have worked out a temporary workaround for Pages, for now:

1) don't use pages on my iPhone. (I wish I could revert to the earlier version actually but I don't think that's possible)

2) use Pages on iPad. Don't update it.

3) email  to myself any documents that iPhone has changed (making them unreadable by old Pages versions) as .doc documents. Loses fonts, but most other things seem to be there.

4) Don't update computer to iOS Mavericks, and therefore don't update Pages on Mac.

Man this really ***** though.