Storyist 4

Simply awful. Nothing like the photos

I really wanted to like this but the ui is so terrible, it doesn’t seem to connection to Dropbox anymore (if it does, that loops back to ui because it should be readily apparent), it’s not user friendly at all, and worst of all: it deleted my work—all files are just gone. Please, for the love of all things holy, return Storyist 3 or a Storyist 5 that takes after 3. After having had recommended 3 to my writer friends and acquaintances for years, Storyist 4 is a mess and an utter disappointment. Oh, and themes don’t work. All in all, as much as Storyist 3 was the primary reason I continued to buy ipads, Storyist 4 (as it is) is one of the worst wastes of money I ever spent.

I downloaded on Iphone Mini. And it wasn't able to receive my text. Not sure why, but I deleted it for not working.

The facade of being a free app to help others is abhorrent. The fact is that require a 30 dollar purchase to actually use the app and it is the first thing actually displayed. The audacity to do this whilst portraying yourself as a free to use app is disgusting.

It’s a file management system and word processor all in one and it doesn’t require a monthly fee. Been using it for over a year and still love using it over other competitor apps. I’m grateful to the folks who designed this app because it has helped me get further than ever with my writing. I hope it helps you too!

The ui, for the most part looks great…but the app icon looks like clip art from the early 2000s and it, an other weird emoji like icons are stamped over every document in the files app which ruins the experience for me. Less is more. Feature wise, I can get the same experience (with a better interface) from scrivener.

FYI for the developers - Great app, used it for decade+ with no issues. Files stored in iCloud. Running iPadOS 15.6.1 on iPad 8gen. Ver 4.3.2 has caused the index cards to all lose their color, and won't hold color if I re-add/close/reopen. I will report other issues when/if detected. Thanks. UPDATE: This has been fixed with 4.3.3! Thanks for the quick response... Note: I'm now on iPadOS 15.7

This is my second review — the first one conveniently disappeared (or never went live). Don’t use this app. I’ve seen time and time again text files within a project disappear. They’re not in the backups either. Screenplay text files. Fiction text files. Hours and hours of work in multiple projects just gone. Tech support can’t (or won’t) help. App updates don’t fix the issue. Read other reviews. I’m not the only one experiencing this problem. Just avoid this app altogether.

I purchased storyist legacy and now it is gone, I cannot find it anywhere, other than purchase history on my past purchases through APP store granted I did not use it often but it has disappeared and when I click for discounted upgrade it has no record of my purchase. 🤔🤷‍♂️

I’m on iOS 14.3 and in the trial period. I’m enjoying the software EXCEPT it freezes a lot. I haven’t lost anything yet but it is sooooo annoying. I’m typing along, hit a key and then nothing. I have three choices at that point. I can walk away long enough to use the bathroom or get coffee, do a hard reset on my iPad, or turn my iPad off and count to 100 before turning it back on. These freezes are super disruptive and it seems like I get one for every five minutes of typing. The second issues lie with the inbuilt editing. 1) If I see an error or want to make a change to a sentence and I use the curser to land on the word or part I want to change it capitalizes the word I’m correcting or replacing every single time. The editor does not take into consideration there are no periods before the word(s) I’m changing so I get a capital letter plopped in the middle of a sentence. -I don't want to turn off the auto caps because I do want it to auto cap the first word in a sentence.- The clue here is that new sentences follow periods so if there isn’t a period in front of whatever I’m typing the auto caps should not be triggered. —Example: If I type The orangedog ran…., put the curser in the middle to erase dog, hit space and type cat, I get The orange Cat ran…instead of The orange cat ran… 2) If I type thedog instead of the dog the word is underlined in red. Great. Only when I tap it to pick a correction choice fifty percent of the time the correction choice will be the same thing, so in this case the correction choice would be thedog. The native apple software I’m using to type now would offer me a the dog 100 percent of the time. I feel Storyist 4 should as well BECAUSE if I have to use the curser to break thedog in to two words the second word will be capitalized-GRRRRRR In the same vein, when I make a mistake and hit another letter instead of the space bar getting orangemcat gets underlined in red. Great. But the correction choice will be orangemcat 100 percent of the time, and if I use the curser to delete the m and add a space cat will be turned into Cat every single darned time, even though it’s in the middle of then sentence and there is no period in sight. If not for those things Storyiest 4 would be the best novel writing software I’ve tried. Plus, the app freezes all the time, sort of sorry I went ahead and paid for it.