Ulysses: Writing App
Write a novel, story, book
Free · In-App Purchases
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
Events
This is a massive update. It’s still the same app, just… better and even more beautiful than before.
## Liquid Glass
This version fully embraces Liquid Glass. We updated the app across the board, including but not limited to:
- The library, dashboard, Quick Open, toolbars, buttons, popovers for images, links, annotations, etc. etc.
- You can finally resize the dashboard (iPad).
- You can finally have sheet list AND dashboard open (iPad).
- The editor now has a large bottom inset (aka Overscroll), so the transitions from reading to editing and back are much smoother, especially when using the onscreen keyboard.
- You can now create new sheets from the Library (iPhone); these will either end up in your main Inbox or in “Project › Extras › Pending”.
- The iPhone on-screen keyboard gained a very prominent close button.
- We even updated the app icon to match the new look.
## Swipe Actions
We added swipe actions to both the library and the sheet list.
- A primary action specific to the current group or filter (such as “Reveal in Group”)
- A full contextual menu as secondary action.
## Improved physical keyboard navigation
We completely reworked keyboard navigation. Use…
- left/right arrows to switch between panes
- up/down to select groups and sheets
- Return to begin editing
- CMD-Return to end editing
- We urge you to try it on iPhone.
## Editor Focus is now “Hide Interface” (iPad)
- Hit CMD-. to get an editor-only view.
- Hit CMD-. again to show the rest of the interface.
- You’ll love this.
## Share/import projects
You can now share whole projects as a zipped archive.
- To import a project, open it via the Files app (or via AirDrop, which is kind of cool).
## Copy for Substack and Basecamp
You can now copy your texts for use on Substack and Basecamp.
- Most formatting is supported; some limitations apply (images won’t work).
- On Substack, we even support buttons (via raw source) and Spotify previews (via text links).
## Editor Themes
We have added two options for editor themes.
- Quotes can have a large font size.
- Some outlines can be hidden.
This resulted in TWO new default themes.
- D26 builds on the system palette and utilizes the new styling options.
- D26 Mono is a toned-down version, perfectly suited for monospaced fonts.
## App Intents
We have revamped our integration with Spotlight and the Shortcuts app. New actions include:
- “Find Sheet” and “Find Group”, with configurable filters.
- “Import File”, to convert any given text file into a sheet.
- “Search in Ulysses”, to open the in-app search with a pre-defined search term.
## Other improvements
- You now start text check via the Dashboard.
- You can now set Favorite/Material status via the Dashboard.
- Setting, showing and editing goals is much more straight-forward now.
- Reworked the line width setting for iPad, allowing for a narrower text width in the editor.
- Syntax highlight for Swift code snippets.
- New color for group icons and keywords: brown.
- Search finds sheets and groups from archived projects.
- Many smaller tweaks throughout the interface, including keywords, export, menus, the toolbar…
## Bugfixes
We fixed a lot:
- Uploading images to WordPress for weird filenames.
- The issue where you could copy, but not paste, text as rich text into other apps such as Pages.
- A crash that occurred when rotating a Plus- or Max-sized iPhone into landscape.
- Ulysses launching into a blank screen when triggering the “Create Sheet” action (e.g. via Widgets or Control Center)
- A rare case of missing footnotes in PDF export.
- Issues with copy & paste of code snippets.
- The issue where the library trash would show trashed sheets from archived projects.
- The insertion of PDFs via the Shortcuts app.
- A bug where some app settings would be reset on launch.
- **stretches legs and arms**…
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Information
- Provider
- Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
- Size
- 302.6 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
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Yearly Plan NT$1,290.00
- Monthly Plan NT$190.00
- Student Offer NT$390.00
- Yearly Plan NT$980.00
- Yearly Plan NT$1,290.00
- Yearly Plan NT$1,320.00
- Copyright
- © 2025 Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
