Ulysses
The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone
What is Ulysses?
Ulysses is a text editor for creative writers. Used by bloggers, poets, students and published novelists all over the world, it offers an integrated environment to brainstorm, draft, revise and even submit text on a professional level.
Based around the concept of non-linear, semantic text editing, Ulysses provides a truly distraction-free and fully focused experience, without sacrificing any advanced features.
It’s got everything you expect from a modern text editor – and then some:
- Tabbed, single-window interface
- Semantic text editing
- True separation of presentation and content
- Console mode (aka “distraction-free writing environment”)
- Extensible export (PDF, DOC, RTF, TXT, HTML, ePub)
- Project-wide, term-centric search & replace
- Multiple document and project notes
- Excerpts
- Counters for characters, words & pages
- Configurable metadata (Status, Label, Dates)
- Integrated backup
- Filters, groups and document collections
- Coherent document previews
- Text trash
- Typewriter scrolling
- Bookmarks and style-jumpers
- Project templates
- English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Hungarian and Czech localizations
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Supported Languages
- English
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Chinese
- Spanish
Apple AppStore
- Updated
- 4.47 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
Said about Ulysses as an alternative
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Positive comment• ago
• as an alternative to 
One word OS. You can separate parts then view them as one document. It doesn't work in OS but you have simple Synch and when you go back to your desktop view the work as a whole there.
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Tags
- Writing tool
- typewriter
- creative-writing
- semantic
- Text Editor
- Novel Authoring
- writing-environment
What a bright future I saw in Ulysses! It was one of the best Markdown writers and I really thought this is a keeper.
However for one they introduced some odd (and not really needed) extensions to Markdown that would make the files created accordingly less app agnostic, but it gets worse… their iCloud implementation wouldn't keep the plain Markdown files as such on iCloud drive, easy to open with any other Markdown app, no, it was entirely hidden from the user and only accessible through Ulysses, nowhere to be seen on iCloud drive. Which defies the purpose of using Markdown in the first place. Byword for example neatly put its files in plain sight of the user.
Now they've switched to a subscription model, so you'll have to pay a whopping $40/year (if I recall that's probably 10 bucks more than the price I paid for the app previously) in order to use the app. Considering that synching is done via iCloud anyway (so they have little part in or can hardly take credit for that) and that Ulysses basically just obscured your Markdown files, I think you should stay away from that piece of software…
I recommend to organise your Markdown files in files and folders, put them on iCloud drive if you need that synching and open them with any non-subscription Markdown app of your choosing. There are plenty alternatives.
integrates publishing with wordpress in markdown format
True. So does Byword (also allows publishing through Medium, tumblr., Blogger and to Evernote), without subscription, for less money, and putting your files into iCloud folders, where you can open them with any other text editor.
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