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
Focus on your prose and organise your documents with this app. With built-in blog publishing, grammar and style checkers, and Shortcuts support, this can be your do-everything writing app.
Simply great
zkarj
I love the simplicity of this app. I use it for all my long-form writing. I've used it for blogging, for podcast scripting, and for writing my memoir. For all of these tasks, the writing experience is beautifully simple and enjoyable. The organisational tools are similarly straightforward and a joy to use.I also love the included capability to check my writing for grammar, which is a great help in my memoir.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your wonderful review! We're thrilled to hear that our app is helping you with such a variety of projects, from blogging and podcast scripting to writing your memoir. It's fantastic to know that you find the writing experience simple and enjoyable, and that our app's tools and features are useful for you. Thank you for sharing this with others and supporting our work with your review and subscription! Happy writing! —Andrea
Keep Returning For Specific Projects
5ham6le5
My daily driver notes app for writing and jotting down ideas, especially for whole projects I always keep coming back to Ulysses - now I always mis the ‘Dashboard’ when in other apps it has become the essential workspace away from my daily scrappy notes. Calm. Fluent. Accumplished.
Developer Response
Thank you for your review and for supporting our work by subscribing. We’re delighted to hear that Ulysses has become your daily driver for notes and project writing, and that the Dashboard has grown into such an essential workspace for you. Your kind words mean a lot to our team. —Andrea
Perfect
PossiblyB9
I have been looking for this software for twenty five years. I didn't know what it is called. I had started to wonder if it even existed. It does. It's perfect. If what you want is to write, with everything that you need to enable you, and nothing to obstruct you, Ulysses is it
Developer Response
Thank you for your kind review. We're glad to hear Ulysses has become the writing tool of your choice. Thanks for supporting us with your subscription! —Alex
Fixed a crash when using the share extension.
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Version 41.3
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 .
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Information
Seller
Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
Size
286.3 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.4 or later.
Languages
English and 11 more
English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese