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 37
## Incoming Links (aka Backlinks)
The Dashboard now shows a list of sheets that link to the current sheet.
- You can jump to the corresponding sheet.
- You can also jump to the actual link(s) inside that sheet.
## Date Correction
The Dashboard can now show the creation and modification dates of the current sheet.
- You can adjust the creation date.
- You cannot adjust the modification date.
## Attachments in Overview
The Dashboard now shows all note and image attachments in the Overview pane.
- Reminder: You can drag text from the editor (or anywhere else) to the Dashboard to create a note.
## Critical Fix
We have fixed an issue which could lead to an empty library after a system update, or after setting up a new device. We’re aware that this was a shocking experience for those affected, even if nothing was actually lost (the original library was “set aside” for some reason, and a new, empty one, was displayed instead). If you’re still having this issue, don’t hesitate to contact our support team.
## Other Improvements and Fixes
- When publishing to WordPress, marked text is now exported as… a marked text.
- When exporting as ePub, links in our Table of Contents now actually link to… the contents.
- Our exporters are now better at handling sheets with large images.
- We now support equations in TextBundle files inside external folders, so: {external [text (equation) bundle] folder}=1.
- And we fixed a couple of obscure crashes and bugs (for example, we fixed a crash in the crash reporter, which sounds funny, but really wasn’t; ok, it was kinda funny).
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!
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Choice
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.
Made me switch from Sublime Text 3
I used to keep my notes in tabs of Sublime Text 3 and that used to get a bit cluttered and hard to sort out. Ulysses augments your workflow with GitHub and WordPress support and saves things in iCloud to access from phone. I also love the Second Editor side-by-side mode with parallel scrolling. Being able to preview my changes life in the format of my choice is invaluable for prototyping a document before exporting it. They solved all the inconsistencies in Markup languages and implementations of MarkDown variations with their own ultimate spinoff MarkDown XL. Outline, Annotations and Links helped me summarise the business report I exported in PDF with preview.
Developer Response ,
Thank you very much for your review and for taking the time to write – we highly appreciate it! We're so glad to hear Ulysses was such a great help in writing your business report, with features such as the second editor. Should you have any suggestions, questions or comments, please do not hesitate to let us know: help@ulysses.app. —Max
A BOON for the Freelance Writer
I'm a freelance writer and I do a lot of long form content for a lot of different clients. I am severely technologically challenged and the markdown formatting has been a huge time saver and I don't cry while formatting my article, even with images and gifs.
I also like Ulysses better than other writing softwares because the folder and file organization is intuitive and helps me stay focused on the present while still having the draft versions of my past work. If you're like me, and like to keep things simple and beautiful, you can't go wrong with Ulysses.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your kind review. Helping writers to stay focussed on their writing and making formatting simple and beautiful is exactly what we strive for. Thanks for sharing this. —Andrea
Subscriptions
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 based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
- Size
- 40.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 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
- © 2025 Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly Plan ₹ 599
- Yearly Plan ₹ 3,999
- Student Offer ₹ 999
- Yearly Plan ₹ 2,899
- Yearly Plan ₹ 3,999
- Yearly Plan ₹ 3,849
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.