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.
Nice App
Habil Kurd
I liked the application, its a good application and encurages someone for writing. particularly the Sync among all Apple Devices. the interfece is nice also.things i like to add is the control over the writings, need more features like justifying the paragraphs. and the interface i like the one for Highland 2 also. thus, i recommend the interface be something between this app and Highland 2 particularly for viewing the pdf. should accept to more bolg platforms....this is my openion so its not necessary to be somethiing all will like. in overall good application and recomennded
Developer Response
Thank you very much for taking the time to write your review — we really appreciate it. It's great to hear you enjoy the cross-platform sync and the interface, especially because it was also our intention to create a distraction free writing environment. As you might already know, Ulysses distinguishes between writing the text itself in the editor and formatting it during export. So the look of your finished document, including justified paragraphs, is determined by the export style you choose. You can also customize an export style, so you can have all the settings you need. If you have any questions about this (or anything else regarding Ulysses), suggestions, etc, please let us know: help@ulysses.app. —Max
It is brilliant for lawyers and writers
Gkay
I am an attorney, a writer, and blooger.I use Dragon Dictate a great deal, for it makes writing so much easier and swifter. Lawyers are constantly fighting for time; and using Dragon saved me a great deal of time.Which brngs me to Ulysses.I have used Dragon with MS Word, Pages and Ulysses for preparing the first and often the last draft before proffing. The final manuscript is then 'exported' to MS Word for formatting and printing; or to Wordpress for publication.By far, Ulysses is simpler, less 'heavy', has a faster turn-around time, and gives little or no trouble, even with third party apps like Dragon.I do have trouble exporting to Wordpress and the menus are still not friendly - you have your work cut out for you: and I am happy to work with you to improve your software, for no charge!In today's text and tech world, a consumer often tinkers with one mainstream software with third party apps. Tee need to integrate is essential - even for Ulysses.Any day I will choose Ulysses over other software for the frirst to the final draft!
Excellent for Writing, Decent for Notetaking
darthpotato
This app is truly well thought out for writing, particularly in its organisation features.However, I would love to see more notetaking features included so that Ulysses can become a one stop shop for all things word related.
## 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.
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Information
Provider
Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
Size
352.4 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