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.
No RTL support yet.
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Useless in many languages.
Developer Response
Thank you for leaving a review. We’re sorry to hear that the lack of RTL support has given you the impression that Ulysses is not suitable for many languages. Ulysses is currently localized into 12 languages, and as a small independent company we need to carefully prioritize which additional languages and features we can work on next. We truly appreciate your request for RTL support and have shared it with our team as a feature request. At the moment, demand for this feature is still relatively low compared to other requests, which is why we focus first on improvements that benefit the largest number of users. That said, we do understand the importance and potential of RTL support, and it remains on our radar for future consideration.Thank you as well for supporting our work through your subscription, and for your patience as we continue to improve Ulysses step by step. —Andrea
If you love writing, you will love Ulysses
Lidor Wyssocky
This app is all about writing. Just writing. No fancy formatting, no cluttered interface. Just you and your words. The simplicity of this app is misleading, though. It has all you need to arrange large writing projects, design your content before you start writing, add research, notes, goals, exports, and more. All these are not getting in my way, and I use them when I need them. When I need to focus on the next word, sentence, and paragraph, Ulysses allows me (even encourages me) to do so. From my blog to a 300-page book, I use Ulysses for anything that requires sound, intentful writing.
Developer Response
We would like to thank you for your review. We are happy to hear that Ulysses allows you to write without any distractions. — Kayla
Fantastic Experience
ג׳וד
I love this app, it has great writing experience features and really gives me the mood to sit down and write.The only bad thing I have to say is that it doesn't support right-to-left languages, which prevents over 550 million people from using it.
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback. We are happy to hear you like writing with our app. We understand there's a need for right-to-left languages support and we've forwarded your request to our developers. This feature is being considered. We appreciate your feedback. Did you know that it is possible to align your exported texts to the right? If you would like instructions on how to achieve that, please contact us directly via help@ulysses.app —Andrea
We improved the app’s stability and fixed a couple of issues.
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Version 40.2
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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
Provider
Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
Size
353.1 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
Languages
English and 11 more
English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
