Beautiful but Limiting

As someone who spends a lot of time writing, I am willing to throw down a few dollars every now and then to experiment with different writing software. Writing is a very personal act, so it stands to reason that there might be one particular piece of software that is absolutely perfect for you. No doubt there are a lot of people for whom OmmWiter would be perfect.
The app is absolutely beautiful. The background music and keystroke sound effects, both of which can be tinkered with to suit your particular taste, are pretty and relaxing. Additionally, the background images are inspiring enough to warrant their presence, whilst also being plain enough to not distract you.
This relaxing beauty, however, is as much a reason to avoid OmmWriter as it is to buy it.
The app makes quite a few claims about being a solution to writers block. In a way, this is true, since the quality of the design almost makes you feel guilty for not typing. In another way, the sounds and imagery could be incredibly limiting.
The full version of OmmWriter boasts seven soundtrack options, seven keystroke sound effects, eight background images, four fonts and four font sizes. While this may sound like a lot, it is important to note that all of these options are quite similar in that they are designed to be relaxing and inspirational.
If you plan on using OmmWriter for journaling, letter-writing, brainstorming, meditative writing, etc., you will probably find these options to be perfectly adequate.
If, however, you are planning on writing creatively, you may find that having one particular mood audiovisually thrust upon you limits your ability to create certain things.
For the same reason that you might not want to listen to hip-hop or heavy metal while writing about the beauty of a sunset, you probably dont want to listen to wispy meditative soundscapes while writing a crime thriller or horror story.
This wouldnt be such a problem if OmmWriter allowed users to insert their own images or soundfiles as backgrounds, but in the current version, there is no option for this.
I feel it is necessary to interject here that, despite what people seem to think, no amount of customizability will ever do your writing for you. If you truly wish to write, you should be able to do it with pen and paper. True creativity comes from within yourself, and any audiovisual attempt to coax this creativity into existence will in fact limit the things you can create.
While this sounds horribly critical, I honestly like the app and will continue to use it for such things as journaling and brainstorming. When writing fiction, however, I prefer more minimalist software.

Daventhal about OmmWriter, v1.0