Ulysses: Writing App

Hands down the best writing app on the market. Love it!

This app is a Word killer for creative writing specifically.

I love the desktop app and ut works really well between two computers, but the mobile app just doesn’t sync correctly at all. I’ve tried all the fixes online to try and get it to sync, but it hasn’t worked and it’s very frustrating to not be able to access my files on my mobile devices as well.

I have used Ulysses and Scrivener for years. It is a great program for synchronizing on other devices and storage.I appreciate the recent addition of tables and the limited ability I have to use images and layout. The grammar checking has also greatly improved. I used to write in Scivener but have now written my last 8 books on Ulysses. Now I can use Grammarly in Ulysses I edit as I go along. My next hope is for an excellent thesaurus.

Good app, needs colouring text. Hate the icon in September 2024, just want developers to know that.

I've used Ulysses for a few weeks on a single project. A couple of things stand out. First, it looks good, works smoothly, specially the iCloud sync - and it's easy to learn. There's plenty of support, and when I had to ask about something, the company's response very helpful indeed. As well, I'm getting to see what the creators mean by 'an ideal writer's workspace'. It really is, somehow, a most congemnial place to put thoughts on paper. Highly recommended.

I love using this app because of its simplicity and beauty. It is distraction free. The one thing that isn't distraction free — markup is not hidden. So it can get crowded. But otherwise it's good!

There are great things about this app. It is genuinely a joy to use but here are the things that hold it back from being a consideration for those serious about writing: - Impossible to effectively save or back up your projects. (projects being anything in the Ulysees project format) - Asks for an expensive subscription model without delivering anything worth subscribing to (no roadmap, no improvements, no attempt to improve on the basis of online feedback) - Mac/IOS only. Will only sync to iCloud in 2024?! - Several people online have lost weeks/months of work from poorly designed software updates In short, your projects are not saveable, they cannot be effectively backed up, and you will be locked into a subscription payments in order to access your work.

I've found myself worrying about the long-term useability of my Ulysses files, as I have been keeping documents in the default projects section and watch them offload themselves and download themselves again every day. As far as I am aware, there is no way to access my work on the disk. Today I watched my entire library offload itself while I was in one of my cloud-based docuents. It is currently redownloading, a second time. I have reached out to Ulysses to ask if their files can be used in other word processors, to ask for reassurance about what happens to my work if Ulysses were to be magicked away, and I recieved nothing but an unhelpful regurgitation of a FAQ post I'd already read about library backups. As for offloading documents, they reccomended to turn off 'optimise Mac storage' which seems promising, but I still feel queasy at my work being stored on someone's server and not even being able to access it from Finder. I am going to go forward using external folders where I work with Ulysses sheets that originate from Finder, not a hidden iCloud folder.

Very easy to use, and for some reason it makes it easier to actually get writing. Funny.