Ulysses: Writing App 4+

Write a novel, story, book

Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG

    • 4.7 • 8.2K Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Ulysses is your one-stop writing environment for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Its pleasant, focused writing experience, combined with effective document management, seamless sync, and flexible export, make Ulysses the first choice for writers of all kinds.


++ Apple Design Award Winner 2016 ++


“The app is amazing. An absolute delight to use. Well done.”

– David Hewson, Bestselling Author (The Killing)


### A Text Production Powerhouse

Ulysses’ markup-based, distraction-free editor lets you focus on your most important task: Write, edit, and write some more. Formatting is kept for later, so you can completely immerse yourself in the text. Ulysses’ uniquely streamlined toolset covers the entire writing process, and its clean and simple interface will boost your productivity. From first to final draft, from prologue to closing chapter – Ulysses keeps you in the flow, so you can get stuff done.


### All Your Texts, All the Time

Everything you’ll ever write is stored in Ulysses’ unified library. You can manage projects of all kinds and sizes, be it novels, diaries or study notes – they are always saved, and automatically in sync. And since Ulysses offers feature parity across macOS and iOS, it doesn’t matter where you are or when inspiration hits: All its tools, and all your texts, are always at your fingertips.


### Built-In Proofreader and Editing Assistant

Write with confidence, thanks to Ulysses’ integrated grammar and style check. Available for over 20 languages, it analyzes your text and offers informed suggestions for capitalization, punctuation, semantics, redundancy, style and more.


### Create eBooks, DOCX, PDFs and HTML

Ulysses’ export is flexible enough to cover any writer’s needs: Transform your text into beautiful PDFs, Word documents or eBooks. Or export HTML code, ready to be used anywhere on the web. You can even choose between a variety of pre-made formatting styles for all kinds of purposes, or create your own and share it with other users.


### Publish to WordPress, Ghost & More

Do you blog? Ulysses’ offers best-in-class publishing to WordPress, Ghost, Medium, and Micro.blog. You can post to WordPress, Ghost and Micro.blog from right within the app – complete with images, tags, categories etc. Publishing to Medium works just as easy, and all four offer a built-in preview to proofread before submission.


### Pricing

Ulysses requires a subscription. We offer monthly and yearly subscription plans. They include a fully functional trial, so you can test Ulysses (including export and sync). There’s also a special discount for students.


All plans unlock the app on Mac, iPhone and iPad, and feature full synchronization.


### Questions

Please visit ulysses.app for more information. You can also reach us via help@ulysses.app or on Twitter @ulyssesapp – we’re happily awaiting your feedback!


Terms of Use: https://ulysses.app/app-terms-of-service

Privacy Policy: https://ulysses.app/app-privacy-policy

What’s New

Version 37

## Incoming Links (aka Backlinks)

The Dashboard now shows a list of sheets that link to the current sheet.

- You can jump to the corresponding sheet.

- You can also jump to the actual link(s) inside that sheet.


## Date Correction

The Dashboard can now show the creation and modification dates of the current sheet.

- You can adjust the creation date.

- You cannot adjust the modification date.


## Attachments in Overview

The Dashboard now shows all note and image attachments in the Overview pane.

- Reminder: You can drag text from the editor (or anywhere else) to the Dashboard to create a note.


## Critical Fix

We have fixed an issue which could lead to an empty library after a system update, or after setting up a new device. We’re aware that this was a shocking experience for those affected, even if nothing was actually lost (the original library was “set aside” for some reason, and a new, empty one, was displayed instead). If you’re still having this issue, don’t hesitate to contact our support team.


## Other Improvements and Fixes

- When publishing to WordPress, marked text is now exported as… a marked text.

- When exporting as ePub, links in our Table of Contents now actually link to… the contents.

- Our exporters are now better at handling sheets with large images.

- We now support equations in TextBundle files inside external folders, so: {external [text (equation) bundle] folder}=1.

- And we fixed a couple of obscure crashes and bugs (for example, we fixed a crash in the crash reporter, which sounds funny, but really wasn’t; ok, it was kinda funny).


If you're happy with the app, please rate it, or even leave a review. This is a great way to support us indie developers. Thanks a lot!

Ratings and Reviews

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4.7 out of 5
8.2K Ratings

8.2K Ratings

Editors’ Choice

Focus on your prose with Ulysses’ distraction-free editor and character, word, and page goals, then organize your documents using keywords and document groups. With built-in blog publishing, grammar and style checkers, and Shortcuts support, this can be your do-everything writing app.

Slade Roberson ,

An Elegant Alternative to Scrivener

I use Ulysses for writing ficiton. I was a Scrivener user for years. It's a powerful program that reminds me in some ways of Photoshop - incredibly powerful yet complex in ways I often never get around to using. The #1 reason I choose to write in Ulysses is the ability to sync and access my Ulysses projects from all my Mac devices - iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro. This is where Scrivener falls apart - their iPad app is a different program, and syncing across multiple devices requires third party programs and platforms ... and then it still doesn't work that great. I can write anywhere, anytime. My other favorite feature is being able to write in Markdown -- so with two keyboard clicks, I can leave inline notes to myself within the text that do not export to the finished document and don't exist in a sidebar. The simplicity of the design in relationship to the variety of function is great. Two feature requests - I still use Pacemaker for project wordcount setting and goal keeping. I'd love it if Ulysses' in app goal setting features were so robust. I also wish the color coding on keywords was more saturated/ high contrast, and that colors could be assigned to elements in the Library.

John Kusters ,

Nearly Perfect Writing Tool

As a novelist and short story writer, I'm enjoying using Ulysses on both my Mac and my iPad. It's biggest strength against any competitors is the seamless iCloud syncing. Other apps are too finicky or have very limited syncing options. With Ulyssees, the writing I do on my Mac just appears on my iPad and vice-versa. I can write and edit virtually anywhere. The otheer feature I think is a strength is that all of your writing is in one container, which you can organize however you want. I like this over having separate files for each project and wondering where that story you worked on three years ago is on your disk. Features that would get it a fifth star would be better planning tools (like a spreadsheet view that showed part of the first line of a sheet, or the first comment, keywords for each sheet, the target word count, and the current word count, with rows that can be rearranged by dragging), an ability to add meta data to a group and include it in the export (for example, author name, word count, story title, and the like for a manuscript suitable for submission to a publisher), and more formatting options in the export styles.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for leaving a review. We are happy to hear you enjoy working with Ulysses. I've +1'd the feature requests for a planning mode as well as for storing and exporting sheet meta data in your name, so please consider your vote counted. Regarding the latter, would you mind sharing your specific use case for this? You can do so by contacting us directly via help@ulysses.app Also, we'd be interested what formatting options you are missing. I assume you are already aware of the fact that export is fully customizable. If not, here are our tutorials explaining how you can adjust existing style sheets or even create your very own: ulysses.app/styles  Should you need any assistance, please don't hesitate to get in touch. —Andrea

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App Privacy

The developer, Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Purchases
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  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled. Learn More

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