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About Ulysses
Ulysses is a writing app for Mac, iPad and iPhone that pairs a distraction-free editor with document management for projects of any size, from essays and blog posts to books. Texts sync between devices and can be exported in several formats.
A built-in grammar and style checker covers more than 20 languages and suggests fixes for capitalization, punctuation, redundancy and style. It has won an Apple Design Award, and a free trial is available on all devices.
Strengths
- Distraction-free editor for long-form writing
- Library for organizing large writing projects
- Grammar and style check in over 20 languages
- Sync and flexible export
Limitations
- Apple platforms only
- Paid after the trial
Details
- Pricing
- PaidPaid app with a free trial on all devices.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Ulysses GmbH
- Platforms
- macOS, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Writers on Apple devices working on long or many-part projects
- Categories
- Note-taking, Office tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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Scrivener
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Bear
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Zettlr
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Typora
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Craft
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Ulysses as an alternative
Listings that name Ulysses as an alternative.
Effie
A minimalist writing app combining notes, outlines and mind maps, with an optional AI assistant.
Ulysses is a paid, distraction-free writing app for Apple devices with a library for large projects and grammar checking, but it lacks mind maps and Windows or Android apps.
ghostwriter
Write Markdown in a distraction-free desktop editor.
Ulysses is a paid distraction-free writing app with a project library, sync and export, but it runs only on Apple devices instead of Windows and Linux.
Manuskript
Plan and draft long writing projects on your desktop.
Ulysses is a paid, Apple-only writing app with a distraction-free editor, a library for large projects, grammar checking in over 20 languages and flexible export.
novelWriter
Write novels as a collection of manageable text documents.
Ulysses is a paid, distraction-free writing app for Mac, iPad and iPhone with a library for large projects and grammar checking, limited to Apple platforms.
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