yWriter: Novel Writing

I've been using ywriter to write two novels (on desktop), and it works great -- Scrivener can probably do more, but ywriter does what I need, and it has a reasonable learning curve. The mobile version is a great addition. It doesn't do everything the desktop version does, but it does enough, allowing editing etc on the go. Thanks for the development effort!

J’ai acheté l’application parce que je travaille essentiellement sur Ipad mais je voulais pouvoir partager avec mon pc ou mon téléphone malgré tout. Je suis très déçu. On a pas le choix de l’endroit où on veut enregistrer. Si on a le malheur de cliquer au mauvais endroit et faire un retour en arrière, c’est automatique enregistrer sur l’appareil et on ne peut changer (au mieux) ou on perd tout. Pourquoi ne pas avoir un enregistrement manuelle qui permet de choisir et surtout d’enregistrer sur google drive. Après avoir subi ce désagrément 4 fois et n’avoir eu aucune réponse du développeur pour m’aider, j’ai renoncé à utiliser cette application désastreuse. J’ai changé de tablette (la nouvelle est sous androïde) et je dois payer si je veux réinstaller l’application pour une nouvelle tentative !!!! C’est bien dommage qui la présentation en plusieurs fenêtres (scènes, personnages, lieux...) sur le même écran est exactement ce que je recherche. J’aurais pu faire l’effort de repayer et même d’utiliser dropbox, bien que je le trouve très limité en place, s’il n’y avait pas eu ce problème d’enregistrement qui nous fait perdre notre travail.

I thought this program was going to have some features to help me write my novel. It's only feature I'd that it orders the chapters and scenes in the right order for you. Other programs do that for free. And it's suspicious to me that the only reviews available are for at least three or more years ago --what's that about in short, don't waste your money! And some of the reviews it says the cost is $4.99, but it's $14.99.

Excellent story app..

Downloaded this today based on an article recommendation. Even if it was free, I wouldn’t use it.

You have to create a new project and port in the info if your file is from 5 or less to get a 7 file to use with this app and it’s not as easy as a save file as. Also Dropbox doesn’t like to delete the lock file well which causes problems with going from app to computer. OneDrive compatibility would be nice as an option.

I had used the desktop version for years and loved it, it was easy to use, intuitive and worked like a dream....this version for iPad I can’t even figure out how to beginning writing anything other than a description. The joy of yWriter desktop version was the ease of use. I wrote a whole book using the desktop version. This iPad version....I am gonna have to stick with using Pages because I just cannot figure yWriter out.

This is the misleading and deletes your work. Further, it does not work in the manner indicated. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!

Awkward, overpriced, inferior version of the desktop version. Purchased because of good opinions I had about the desktop version, only to be utterly disappointed by what feels like a first year coding student’s attempt to produce a mobile writing software.

It just deleted my entire project all 2200+ words and notes it’s now a blank file instead of my story, and as far as I can tell no way to move the file from local storage to somewhere else to attempt some kind of recovery. Feeling really disappointed considering how much I loved the software up until now.