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Well, sure, if you just need to get across town I suppose it is. It's like saying a motorcycle is the superior alternative to a pickup truck. I wouldn't even consider Obsidian (or Ulysses) a competitor to Scrivener, let alone an alternative. Still, once you get the knack of it, it's not a bad experience, it just feels a bit dated.Īs for Obsidian being able to do "more" than Scrivener, that's a bit disingenuous, don't you think? Much of what Scrivener can do is niche, but if your workflow happens to fall within that niche there's really nothing else quite like it. It only works with Dropbox, and even then it needs a fair amount of hand holding if you're moving between devices. And its project package format is wildly (seriously, don't do it or you're gonna have a bad time) incompatible with iCloud Drive, OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, etc.

Ulysses sync has been pretty much bulletproof and almost freakishly instantaneous, while Scrivener's sync requires a bit of care and feeding if you don't want to have a bad time. The one area where Ulysses truly shines in comparison to Scrivener is syncing. That includes syncing, for which Obsidian charges a monthly fee. When the next major version comes out you get a discount if you upgrade, or you keep using the version you bought and never pay them anything else ever again.
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You buy a single license for your platform of choice and you use it on as many devices of that type as you own for as long as you want. Also, Scrivener's licensing is about as friendly as it gets. It's kinda clunky and persnickety and has about a million options I don't even use, but with a little patience you can make it do just about anything you can imagine. And when you're done it can output the final product in a mind-boggling array of formats at the click of a button.

I try it every now and then for the bigger stuff, but for wrangling a large project nothing compares to Scrivener. I prefer to write in Ulysses, which is sleek and beautiful and thoughtfully designed, but I only use it for small/quick projects and only then because I get it free in Setapp. Why would anyone use Ulysses or Scrivener when there are much better, much more powerful apps out there these days? It also has fully featured apps for iOS, macOS, Windows and Android, which neither Ulysses nor Scrivener offer. Was a top choice at one time, alongside Scrivener about a decade ago.īut Obsidian ('') can do more than either Ulysses or Scrivener, and it is free for private use.
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Ulysses is also included in Setapp, the subscription-based service for Mac applications created by MacPaw. The discount is granted from within the app. Students can use Ulysses at a discounted price of $11.99 per six months.

A monthly subscription costs $5.99, while a yearly subscription is $49.99.
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After a 14-day trial period, a subscription is required to unlock the app on all devices.
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Ulysses can be downloaded for free on the App Store and the Mac App Store, with version 23 rolling out to existing users today. Up until now, updating was only available for WordPress, but the developers plan to add it for Micro.blog in the coming months.
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Users now also have the option to update previously published Ghost posts from within Ulysses. Version 23 refines the feature by indicating uploaded posts with a paper plane icon, making them easier to spot in the editor, while a text's publishing status now appears in the dashboard sidebar. That's why a profound rewrite became necessary."Īs well as providing a focused writing environment, Ulysses offers ways to publish texts from within the app to various blogging platforms. "We must take numerous outlying factors into account, for example, when users sync through iCloud or collect material, which should not count toward their writing target. "Our original approach had a couple of design flaws," says lead developer Götz Fabian. Version 23 revamps the way the associated session history feature calculates those goals.

The goal feature allows them to set a daily target – 500 words, say – and monitor their progress towards achieving it. Popular writing app Ulysses today reached version 23, and this update improves its blog publishing features as well as the way session histories and writing goals are calculated.įor a while now, Ulysses has offered a writing goal feature to help writers foster a writing habit.
