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
Support for publishing to Wordpress is excellent, especially the support for inline images. Because of this and its sync to iOS/iPadOS/macOS, it’s currently my preferred blog editor, despite a few shortcomings for blogging e.g.: No import of existing articles, long-winded workflow to update an existing article, no image resizing. Overall a great app, with excellent support.I had an issue where I had to hard-reset my iPhone to fix it, fortunately that did work, so I updated my review. Thanks for the quick support Ulysses team!Previous 2 star review: On iOS this app suddenly changes to a different sheet for no apparent reason. This kills flow completely and makes the app unusable. The macOS version does not have this problem. Other than this fatal flaw it seems great. Please fix the bug! :)
Developer Response
We are terribly sorry about the trouble you are experiencing. This is obviously not supposed to happen. Could you please contact us via help@ulysses.app so we can have a closer look at this issue? Thanks —Andrea
Easy to organise sections
AlainnDiagha
I like this because I can organise each segment or chapter into the right order using the document map and pre-viewer on the left. It's a form of document mapping - which to my knowledge Pages for some reason is still missing. What I have never grasped yet is why anyone would ever want to write in mark up at all as I find it irritating not knowing how it will look. It's just as easy or easier to write in Pages where you set your heading styles. If Ulysses have the option of just seeing what you want it would be an advance. As would a document map in Pages. I've managed to organise 30 years of writing in a month so this app does have huge benefits in terms of collation and ordering but I find myself strangely disconnected from my work because it doesn't look how I want it to. Why they don’t take this another stage and have an icon you press for heading or centre or left justify, that then puts in the markdown for you, I have no idea. Would that not be a no brainer?
Developer Response
Thank you for leaving a review! Our markup-based writing environment can take some time to get used to, especially if you only worked with WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) programs like Pages or Word before. Ulysses is a WYGIWYM (What You Get Is What You Mean) editor. The app uses the Markdown XL markup language, which allows you to tag text semantically. Ulysses will then automatically format the final document for you during export—so that you can concentrate on the most important part: writing. Anyone who has ever tried to format a long document in Word knows how much time can be lost. Especially, when an image or footnote needs to be added afterwards. As soon as you know all the tags you need for your writing style, your fingers need never leave the keyboard while you type. And when your text is ready for publication, all you need to do is select a style sheet. If you don't like the look, select a different one. Your text will always look perfect. Furthermore, each export style can be tweaked to fit your individual needs. If you have any questions or need help in learning Markdown XL or how to adjust style sheets feel free to contact us directly at help@ulysses.app —Andrea
A great way to start
theThought
I am a strategist for a large corporation. Much of my time is spent writing vision statements ahd strategy documents, sometimes for myself but often as a ghost writter for executives.I start all my documents in Ulysses. Depending on the document I set my self a Word count target and then build an outline and finally flesh out the content.I lvoe the focus on words and not presentation. I love the speed at which it reacts to my typing. I like the new grammar checker although I would prefer if it aligned better to that of Word.Microsoft Word is now simply a publishing tool.The link between Ulysses and Word does work as well as I would like. I publish with the expectation that the template I use in Word will define look and feel, but that does not happen. I don’t seem to be able to direct my document via a specific template and even with the normal template, it overrides the default formatting.This means that I have to adjust formatting once it arrives and that just wastes time. Furthermore, I would like to go back to Ulysses to adjust and re-publish, but having to do the formatting again stops me.Consequently Ulysses is a great start, but not so great an end (for me)
Developer Response
Thank you very much for your review and for taking the time to write it — we highly appreciate it. We are sorry to hear about the trouble you have with exporting to .docx. Perhaps you would benefit from creating a personalized export style, where you can set all your formatting preferences? This way you wouldn't need to rely on a Word template anymore. You can find more information about this on the following page, including a link to an even more detailed guide: https://ulys.app/styles. If you have any questions about this or anything else, please don't hesitate to let us know: help@ulysses.app. —Max
I dream for a day there are [[wikilinks]]
RespawnTheory
I enjoy using Ulysses, it has a the best UI hands down of all the apps out there. But there are some things that just make the app feel like it’s dragging its feet. Tables are in the works, great! But there are a couple of features that would make Ulysses the golden child of markdown applications once more. [[wikilinks]] for easy note connections, much in the way Bear implements this feature (no need to go the Obsidian route). iA Writer has hinted this feature is coming in the next major update… so come one Ulysses team, if iA Writer, who is notoriously rigid in adding extra features, you can (please).Would I recommend Ulysses? Yes and no. It’s not as feature rich as it could be, but it is easy on the eyes and a joy to write in. A few extra feature additions will make Ulysses a real contender once more in the ever evolving markdown space.
Developer Response
Thank you for leaving a review. I've +1'd the feature requests in your name, so please consider your vote counted. I can't make any promises, but your feedback is highly appreciated. If you have any trouble using the app, or if you have any other questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to let us know directly: help@ulysses.app. —Alex
## iPad only
- We have completely reworked the main menu, mirroring the full structure and functionality of the main menu on Mac.
- You can now separately activate the line marker and fixed scrolling.
- You can now select themes from the View menu.
- The editor now has menus for paragraph- and text-markup (yay!).
- You can now copy and paste sheets and groups using the menu (or keyboard shortcuts).
## Improvements (all devices)
- Projects, groups, and filters now have a dedicated Edit view, which covers name, icon, and color, while a new Statistics view covers history and… statistics.
- We have redesigned the condition editor for filters.
- We have reorganized the editor settings, making them much more accessible.
- The writing history for groups and projects is now always visible within the statistics view (it previously needed a goal).
- Editor search now includes options for "Whole Words" and "Begins with”.
- Images in the editor now load faster.
- Mathematical equations are now exported as native Word equations (OMML), ensuring full compatibility with Microsoft Word.
## Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with our ePub exporter when a cover image was set.
- Fixed the alphabetical sorting of tags and categories in the WordPress publishing panel.
- Fixed certain group or project icons not appearing in the Shortcuts app and within widgets.
- Fixed various crashes.
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!
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Information
Provider
Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
Size
293.8 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later.
Languages
English and 11 more
English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
