Scrivener
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Description

“The biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.” —Michael Marshall Smith, bestselling author

Typewriter. Ring-binder. Scrapbook. Scrivener combines all the writing tools you need to craft your first draft, from nascent notion to final full stop.

Tailor-made for creating long manuscripts, Scrivener banishes page fright by allowing you to compose your text in any order, in sections as large or small as you like. Got a great idea but don’t know where it fits? Write when inspiration strikes and find its place later. Grow your manuscript organically, idea by idea.

Whether you plan or plunge, Scrivener works your way: meticulously outline every last detail first, or hammer out a complete draft and restructure later. Or do a bit of both. All text sections in Scrivener are fully integrated with its outlining tools, so working with an overview of your manuscript is only ever a tap away, and turning Chapter Four into Chapter One is as simple as drag and drop.

Need to refer to research? In Scrivener, your background material is always at hand. Write a description based on a photograph. Reference a video or PDF. Check for consistency with an earlier chapter. On the iPad, open two documents side-by-side; on the iPhone, flip between research and writing with just two taps.

Once you’re ready to share your work with the world, simply compile everything into a single document for printing, or export to popular formats such as Word, PDF, Final Draft or plain text. You can even share using different formatting, so that you can write in your favorite font and still keep your editor happy.


FEATURES

Get Started
• Interactive tutorial project
• Keep each manuscript and supporting materials in a self-contained project
• Import Word, RTF, Final Draft and plain text files
• Easily split imported text into separate sections

Get Writing
• Write your manuscript in sections of any size
• View all sections as a single text using the “Draft Navigator” (iPad only)
• Quickly navigate sections using the “binder” sidebar
• Format with fonts and presets
• Comments, footnotes, links and highlights
• Simple bullets and lists
• Insert images
• Pinch-zoom to resize text
• Full-screen mode (iPad only)
• Typewriter scrolling mode keeps typed text center-screen (iPad only)
• Write a screenplay using scriptwriting mode
• Live word and character counts
• Set word and character count targets
• Find and replace
• Customizable keyboard row provides quick-access buttons for formatting, navigation and punctuation
• Comprehensive keyboard shortcuts for external keyboard users
• Dark mode

Find Your Structure
• Write in any order and reorganize later
• Write a synopsis for any text section and see it in the outline
• Expand, collapse and drill down into sections of your project
• Rearrange sections as index cards on the corkboard (iPad only)
• Project-wide search
• Track ideas using labels and status
• Apply custom icons to your sections

Refer to Research
• Import research material such as image, PDF and media files
• View research files or other sections right alongside your writing (iPad only)
• Every section has its own notes area for jotting down ideas
• Supports multitasking split screen mode (supported devices only)

Share Your Work
• Compile to a single document for sharing or printing
• Use different formatting in your exported or printed document
• Export to Word, RTF, Final Draft, PDF or plain text
• Convert rich text to Markdown for sharing with Markdown apps
• Create and email zipped backups of your projects

Work Anywhere
• Use Dropbox to sync between devices and with the macOS and Windows versions of Scrivener*
• Copy projects between devices via iTunes

* Requires a Dropbox account (not compatible with iCloud).

SUPPORT
You can contact us at [email protected], visit our forums at http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum, or find us @scrivenerapp on Twitter.
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User Rating

4.31 out of 5

29 ratings in India

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This tool frees you as a writer

arun_muthu on

I’m in my early stages of my writing career. This tool (not just the iPhone app) but the Mac desktop version as well allows you to organize all your thoughts so well. I went from “What is this Scrivener?” to “How did I ever live without Scrivener?” in twenty-four hours.

!!!Strenuous!!!

.a786a. on

Every time the app needs to sync files from Dropbox, and no seamless sync, often creates conflicted files. iCloud sync would made it simple and lot easier. In dark mode, text colouring doesn’t work, no matter what colour we apply everything will be in grey colour. No multi-instances. Very hard to format pdf compile page. Not enough to use the potential of iPad.

Utterly useless sync

auspous on

They won’t evolve to iCloud sync and are adamant about Dropbox sync. Now this sync is useless because the books I create on the mac app and save on Dropbox won’t appear on the iOS version. I can open Dropbox app on my phone and see that the file created on mac is there but this useless scrivener app won’t detect it. They couldn’t get the basics right and have stopped updating their platform and we are stuck with what we heavily paid for.

Love the App, but...

Samarth yadav on

I really love the app. But I think there should some other sync & save option other that just Dropbox. After paying so much money this little feature should be there. Dropbox only provides 2GB of space and extra we have to buy. At least provide iCloud sync if you can’t provide Google Drive. Can you do that?

Must have if you use the Desktop App regularly

Sanjay Mehta on

This augments the desktop app but doesn't replace it. Great for adding text while you're mobile but I doubt you'd be able to write a complete novel on your phone, although I've heard that Peter V. Brett wrote his first book on a blackberry. The only part which is irritating is that sync depends on Dropbox and unless you trigger it manually, it can be flaky.

Very tedious and extremely expensive

kbooki on

I bought this app because I love scrivener on my desktop. I loved the idea of writing integrated notes on my phone. However having used this app over several months I can say that it is entirely useless and in fact I have stopped using it even though it’s one if the most expensive apps on my phone. You have to store the documents in dropbox, and shut the software after finishing. It is just very tedious and there is hell to pay if you by chance forget to close the app. The phone to desktop integration is very clunky. I would recommend taking notes on the native iPhone app and just copying them to the desktop scrivener as the iPhone notes app is much better integrated. Also it is much much cheaper.

Why not add collaborative writing for another star?

Shivandana on

It lacks collaborative writing feature, don’t know why, it would have boost sale of the software.

Fantastic app ! A must have for writers

thedrugfreeguy on

It makes google docs look like a child’s toy ! This app is as good as an iPhone ! Shame if you are a writer and you don’t have this app on your iPad or iPhone ! It’s so handy , intuitive and has all those little things which make all the difference in the world to someone who is struggling to write a good novel ! It’s aesthetically appealing and I still wonder why no one in India has given a good review for it so far ! I took a risk of spending on this app and it’s really worth it ! All one has to do is create a project , go to draft and start adding documents after documents or chapters after chapters until you make a book ! Word counts , collective word counts and all those 100 different things will be easily understood on the way of writing ! It’s really cool ! Go for it ! Truly , Heartwarming app ! P.S. : this isn’t a paid review lol ! Edit 1 : Oi , it was working really fine but just after this recent logo change update . This lovely app has started to force shut down while its contents get synced with Dropbox . I guess it needs a bug fix . Please scrivener team , send us another update ! What use is a scrivener without its saving features ?! Thank you in advance 🙋🏻‍♂️ Edit 2 : thank you so much for the update ! Bug Problem resolved ! 5 stars 🌟 Edit 3 : guys I got a bug problem again ! Copied a project and deleted the old one and now it says sync error ! I created a new project and even that fails syncing ! Could you send me an update asap ?!

Writing projects made simple

gkmbai on

I use this to compose proposals, project reports and even presentations. Makes it easy to think and organize stuff. And then I import it into PowerPoint or Word to complete. Very nice piece of productivity software.

Incredible app

wpgaurav on

I own this app for every OS it exists. Super app and easy to get started. Once you get used to, all is amazing. I hope they add iCloud, Google Drive sync as well.

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App Info

Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish
Recent version
1.2.4 (9 months ago )
Released on
Jul 20, 2016 (7 years ago )
Last updated
2 weeks ago