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Ulysses: Writing App 4+
Write a novel, story, book
Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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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 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 35.1
This version brings various bug fixes and other tweaks.
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Ratings and Reviews
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.
Simple, elegant, powerful
The process of capturing and organizing thoughts in a meaningful way is intuitive before being rational. I found Ulysses a very useful tool, simple and powerful, to create elegant prose.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your kind words! Should you ever have any questions or encounter any difficulties while using Ulysses, you can always contact us via help@ulysses.app –Lisa
So disappointed ...
I just got my brand new Mac Mini set up from Christmas, and one of the very first things I did after updating the OS was head to the app store to get Ulysses. After 10 years in the Windows world, I was ready for a good writing app again.
First ... subscription. I'm not totally averse to a subscription model, but that price is honestly ludicrous. My last copy of Ulysses cost me $60CAD, and while that was a lot for a text editor, I used it for 4.5 years, so it ended up being a tiny bit over a dollar a month to run. Now they want $5.99CAD/mo? I'm paying in a year what I used to pay period. Uh ... no. The authors know there's FREE text editors in the app store, right? That I can get a competitor like Bear that does virtually everything Ulysses does for 1/3 the price?
Which brings me to the design ... Ulysses used to have multiple panels open at once, so I'd have my current chapter, the setting for that chapter, the main character(s) for that chapter, and my research notes all open at once. Now I'm flipping back and forth and forth and back to get that same information in the 3 column design. Sure, it's easy and fast, but you aren't getting easier or faster than having it always avaialble, like it used to.
So, if three column design is the modern route, and I'm stuck with this methodology, I'm going to save myself some money.
Developer Response ,
We are sorry you feel this way. You seem to have bought Ulysses 2, which you should be able to download here for free (see second last FAQ item): https://ulysses.app/faq Regarding Ulysses’ price: Given the full functionality of Ulysses, we believe that the price of our subscription is justified. For about the equivalent of one cup of Starbucks coffee per month, you get incredible organizational opportunities, fully customizable export, attachments, setting writing goals and the ability to publish blogs in an environment that allows you to fully focus without being distracted by anything thanks to a simple and intuitive air interface. A complete list of all the functions that Ulysses contains is available on our website: https://ulysses.app/features/table Regarding the possibility to view multiple sheets simultaneously: You can achieve this via Split View. You can read more about this via our “Split View” tutorial which you can find here: https://ulysses.app/tutorials/split-view In case of any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us via help@ulysses.app –Lisa
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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
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
- Size
- 40.6 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.2 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.2 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly Plan $7.99
- Yearly Plan $49.99
- Student Offer $14.99
- Yearly Plan $38.99
- Yearly Plan $51.99
- Yearly Plan $49.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.