I wanted to write but don't be fooled because they charge u money to write

I started using this app a few years ago after I lost a Scrivener document to sync corruption. While the interface took some getting used to and I wish square brackets didn’t create links—I am a wretched academic and I love my square brackets, even in my creative writing when I need to come back to something—overall the unparalleled sync I get between my devices makes this the superior writing app for me. For context I switch daily between my iPad and laptop, and occasionally a phone. The overall interface is very clean and distraction-free, and it is very easy to switch between different parts of a project. I love the note feature and the annotation feature, and there is an easy switch between dark and light, or it can match your system. This maybe isn’t ideal for academics, especially since brackets create hyperlinks and that is definitely not ideal in academic writing (and, as mentioned above, sometimes creative writing hits a snag if you’re like me and also use brackets to mark something to [fix or] add in at a later date), but for creative writing overall it is wonderful. Again, may take some getting used to at first depending on what other application(s) you are used to writing, but the ease of access (and, again, the easy device syncing, which, as someone who has tested multiple writing applications over the years, far outstrips the nearest competition) makes this app optimal for people who do any personal writing from multiple devices. It is now my primary writing app.

I’ve been using this app for over 2 years and it’s a good writer’s tool

This app is a great tool for me to teach

I am about to publish my first novel, which I wrote on my iPad and sometimes iPhone at 3 a.m. in bed instead of sleeping. So, yeah, I like Ulysses.

I’ve used Ulysses since it first came out, and it a great tool for writing, organizing research and seeing a mass of data in a manageable and searchable list. The UI is clean and elegant and the program has always been rock stable for me.

This is a delight of an app, marred by a service-style subscription model that offers no value. Constantly, and infinitely, paying to use an app makes no sense, unless the app offers some kind of on-going benefit. This one doesn’t. It’s a shame. The app itself is amazing. But there are more cost effective alternatives. If they get rid of the subscription, or if they add any real value to it, I would definitively look into coming back.

Ulysses has, on more than one occasion, deleted a file that I am working on with no means of retrieving the file from their end when I’m switching between my external files or when I’m switching from one file to a new file. Essentially, it chooses to replicate the new file that I just created rather than preserve the last file I was working on. This is frustrating because I’ve only experienced this issue when I am working on markdown files imported through an external folder. This really makes this app feel more dangerous than worth it, and is making me reconsider resubscribing in the future.

A refugee from Office 365 , I found that the writing in Ulysses great and the edit (revision mode) also wonderful. So the book was written, scanned with revision mode. proofread and edited. ready to merge the sheets together, add a couple of blank pages on the front and rear, end the love affair ended. There is no way to select the sheets to be merged and be sure they are joined in the right order. It's a glitch. And there are glitches in the select, copy, paste funtions if the sheets being merged are long, so awkward to fix the merge if it is not correct. The developers are aware of theses and other deficiencies. So my next book will get written in Ulysses, revised edited etc and then exported to another writting app to format and export. Maybe by the time I finish the next one the glitches will be fixed.

I have gradually moved all my writing and life notes into this app because it's so pleasnt to use.