Ulysses: Writing App

Ulysses: Writing App

By Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG

  • Category: Productivity
  • Release Date: 2017-08-10
  • Current Version: 39.5
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 314.71 MB
  • Developer: Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
Score: 4.58517
4.58517
From 1,955 Ratings
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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 ++ “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, Substack & More Do you blog? Ulysses’ offers best-in-class publishing to WordPress, Ghost, and Micro.blog. You can post to WordPress, Ghost and Micro.blog from right within the app – complete with images, tags, categories etc. All offer a built-in preview to proofread before submission. Ulysses also supports copy paste publishing to Substack and Basecamp. ### 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

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Reviews

  • Deceptive Pricing

    1
    By ka0sdem0n
    Shows in app purchases but that’s not the case you can’t use the app unless you start a 7 day trial which isn’t long enough to evaluate something like this, or pay $39.99 a year. Couldn’t tell you if this is a functional app or not.

  • No More ‘Pages’ App, What a Joy

    5
    By imyourmoderator
    I had always written in Microsoft Word, even on Mac, and switched a year or so ago to Apple’s Pages app for the cloud capabilities because I like to have access to the things I’m writing on different devices at different times.After using Pages for a few months the program began freezing my computer, taking up all my RAM. Eventually, it locked up the machine to the point where it had to be reset. When it came back, it synced an old version of a piece of writing with the cloud, erasing thousands of hard-fought words. At that point I knew I had to look for a different solution.

  • Not meant for iOS

    3
    By Johnny Guierrmo
    Far inferior to the free Apple Notes app simply because this is not an app that was meant for iOS….its clunky, and if you want to just “write without distraction”, use the Apple journal app on iOS

  • A really, REALLY solid writing app.

    5
    By Ruthanne Reid
    Ulysses works exactly as advertised. Write, organize, export—it’s all there, and appreciated. You can even “copy as” to take any markdown section and turn it into HTML, rich text, or plain text. Super useful. About all I would like added is auto tracking words written per day, and maybe a way to hide the markdown fully (not via themes, but in the actual editor). I say that because it can be easy to miss extra spaces between words. Markdown adds spaces visually (depending on the theme, again), and sometimes when exporting, those words lack the crucial space between them—which the author missed in editing because VISUALLY, there is a space (e.g. markdown coding—an asterisk, or something). Other than that, excellent, and my primary writing choice.

  • No sample without “free trial”. Plus bad grammar

    2
    By Constantinemagildahyde
    I downloaded this to try it out. There is no trying it out without SIGNING UP for a free trial. I don’t do that. Second, this is a writing app, and the grammar in the “you must read this” section was atrocious. Like ESL bad. Too unprofessional for me to go any further. Deleted.

  • Beautiful and simple; sometimes too raw

    4
    By candlepower
    I love the native-Apple feel of the Ulysses interface, the relatively simple but effective feature set, and the automatic sharing across devices. So far (after a year) my only complaint is that Markdown still feels clunky. Would prefer a more WYSIWYG editor.

  • Love Ulysses

    5
    By RearCog
    I am a developer and my job has switched to writing and editing lots of md files for Claude. I LOVE this app for editing md files. I feel like I think more clearly and creatively when I am editing md files in Ulysses. The only feature I wish it had was a way to easily create a new md file on the file system. Right now a new file defaults to the cloud.

  • Prevents Restart While Selling Subscriptions

    1
    By Oigfsbbjkhik
    So, I was trying for so long to understand why I couldn’t restart my Mac, and why it wouldn’t go to sleep. Then I discovered that Ulysses was open and had a blocking modal dialog that was offering me an honestly pretty good offer that I totally would have taken, but I needed to restart my Mac, not be opening my wallet in this state. So I try closing Ulysses, but I can’t. I have to respond to the offer: do I want to open my wallet on a system with a compromised state or do I want to reject this offer? Well, I guess I had to reject the offer, but Not So Fast! Why would I reject that offer, you ask? Well, I try to tell you that there was a technical problem with the offer, that even if I had wanted to accept it I could not because my system was not in a place where I _could_ accept it. But you didn’t supply any way for me to do that, any way to respond. You said, email our support. Really? You asked me a question but didn’t want the answer, apparently. Would this be the last time this happened? No. Apparently Ulysses starts on every system start and makes _some_ offer every time now. That’s great and kind, but I really need it to not be blocking administrative things on my machine, such as restart when there are no documents open. It is for this reason that I conclude that the app must not have been designed very well and did not undergo basic usability testing, so it gets 1 star. I was considering subscribing, but now I am not. It’s back to Notes.app for me. I guess nothing can really beat the simplicity of system apps, at least you know they undergo testing.

  • Serviceable Markdown Editor

    5
    By Angri Varad
    This is a perfectly serviceable markdown editor that removed the distractions between me and my writing. There are some things I don’t like (the default formatting for quoted passages) and I don’t use most of the newer features but I’ve been using it for years and find the subscription price well worth it to have the app maintained and work on multiple generations of phones, tablets, and laptops.

  • welp…

    1
    By mimiii luvs the cure
    just a heads up you won’t be able to do anything not even look at and getting a chance to explore the app without getting their subscription

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