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 ++
“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
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more 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.
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.
- Fixes an issue where the editor would be slow to react to keyboard input.
- Fixes misplaced equations in PDF and DOCX export.
- Fixes a rare crash while typing.
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39.5 12 Mar
- Fixes a problem when adding a new WordPress.com account.
- Fixes multiple problems with widgets and shortcuts.
- Fixes a few minor bugs and crashes.
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39.4 5 Feb
- Reintroduced swipe gestures to show or hide the library, sheet list or dashboard.
- Updated the alternative app icons with a Liquid Glass appearance.
- Resolved an issue with copying text that includes code blocks.
- Fixed a crash when creating sheets from widgets, controls or shortcuts.
- Fixed a crash when reordering groups and projects using drag & drop.
- Fixed unexpected scrolling in the editor when opening an image, link or footnote.
- Fixed searching text in trashed sheets and within backups.
- Fixed a crash when setting a publishing date for WordPress posts.
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39.3 9 Jan
- Fixed the alignment of button row icons on iPadOS 26.
- Fixed the visibility of the keyboard dismiss button on iOS 18 in dark mode.
- Fixed a crash when sharing sheets from the sheet list.
- Fixed a crash when opening a sheet from Spotlight.
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39.2 08/12/2025
Fixes a bug where the editor was scrolling unexpectedly while selecting text.
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39.1 27/11/2025
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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39 17/11/2025
- Added new group icons, including additional social media outlets.
- Fixed sign-in failures to blogs on WordPress.com
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38.4 13/08/2025
This version brings various bug fixes and other tweaks.
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38.3 25/06/2025
- Fixed a bug where a new sheet was created in the wrong group.
- Fixed a crash when creating a group in the Extras section of a project.
- Fixed a crash when purchasing a subscription.
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38.2 22/05/2025
Fixed a crash when creating a new group in projects.
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38.1 16/05/2025
This version introduces a couple of changes to the Library:
- The iCloud section is now called “Notes”.
- The On My Device section is now called “Notes (On My Device)”.
- You can now swap the Projects and Notes sections in the library settings.
- You can now hide (and show) the Projects Archive via the section menu.
- You can now hide the global filter section (this will add an “All” filter in the Notes section).
- The Inbox now displays a sheet counter by default (you can disable this).
- You can now collapse the library sections by tapping on the section titles.
- You can now hide the Trash, as long as it’s empty.
- You can now decide whether the contents of your projects should appear in the global filters (All, Last 7 Days).
- We have removed the Introduction section from the library; the intro was painfully outdated, and all of its relevant content is now available via our Help Center.
Fixes:
- Fixed an issue with publishing to WordPress , if the sheet contained images with special characters.
- Fixed some strange results when reordering groups via drag & drop.
We have also added 60+ new group icons requested by our users, including a rabbit, a paper plane, and… popcorn.
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38 13/05/2025
Fixes an issue causing slow iCloud Drive sync on iOS 18.4.
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37.1 30/04/2025
## Incoming Links (aka Backlinks)
The Dashboard now shows a list of sheets that link to the current sheet.
- You can jump to the corresponding sheet.
- You can also jump to the actual link(s) inside that sheet.
## Date Correction
The Dashboard can now show the creation and modification dates of the current sheet.
- You can adjust the creation date.
- You cannot adjust the modification date.
## Critical Fix
We have fixed an issue which could lead to an empty library after a system update, or after setting up a new device. We’re aware that this was a shocking experience for those affected, even if nothing was actually lost (the original library was “set aside” for some reason, and a new, empty one, was displayed instead). If you’re still having this issue, don’t hesitate to contact our support team.
## Other Improvements and Fixes
- When publishing to WordPress, marked text is now exported as… a marked text.
- When exporting as ePub, links in our Table of Contents now actually link to… the contents.
- Our exporters are now better at handling sheets with large images.
- We now support equations in TextBundle files inside external folders, so: {external [text (equation) bundle] folder}=1.
- We fixed various issues with Dynamic Type and VoiceOver.
- And we fixed a couple of obscure crashes and bugs (for example, we fixed a crash in the crash reporter, which sounds funny, but really wasn’t; ok, it was kinda funny).
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37 03/03/2025
We fixed a couple of bugs and minor stability issues.
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36.3 16/01/2025
We improved the app’s stability and fixed a couple of issues.
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36.2 20/12/2024
Ghost: Switched sign-in method to Staff Access Tokens for future compatibility.
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36.1 02/12/2024
## Table of contents
You can now add a table of contents to your documents.
- Type (toc) anywhere in your text to add a placeholder.
- This placeholder will become a full table of contents during export.
- All export formats are supported.
- You can even define a maximum heading level (e.g. “Titles only”).
- Exported PDFs also contain an outline of your headings.
## iPhone Action Button
You can now launch Ulysses from the Action button found on the latest iPhone models.
- “New Sheet” will launch Ulysses into a new, empty sheet in your Inbox.
- “Last sheet” will open the last edited sheet.
- “Search” will launch Ulysses directly into Quick Open.
- These actions are also available via Control Center on iOS 18.1.
## Writing Tools
Ulysses is ready for Writing Tools.
- Only available with iOS 18.1 or higher.
- Only available in certain languages and regions.
- Apple Intelligence needs to be enabled in System Settings.
## Improvements & Fixes
Added Dark Mode icons for iOS 18 and above.
Fixed some cases where copying and pasting content from or to Ulysses would return unwanted results.
Improved scrolling performance when using typewriter mode.
Fixed a number of crashes and bugs.
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36 30/10/2024
This update fixes a few bugs that snuck into the previous version.
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35.3 30/09/2024
We improved the app’s stability and fixed a couple of issues.
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35.2 12/09/2024
This version brings various bug fixes and other tweaks.
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35.1 24/06/2024
## Internal Links
You can now link to any heading within a sheet.
- Same sheet, other sheets, doesn‘t matter.
- Just start typing into the regular URL field, and auto-complete will list matching headings.
- You can quickly jump to such links (on iPad, try CMD-click).
- You can export those links (great for table of contents and personal knowledge bases).
- We even import internal links from Markdown, DOCX and HTML files.
## History Navigation
You can now jump back and forth between recently used sheets.
- Navigate to the last edit.
- Return to an internal link.
- Go back to the previous sheet after using Quick Open.
## Bugfixes
- Fixed restoring iCloud projects from backups (the iCloud backup wakeup).
- Added Dark Mode to WordPress publishing preview (night owls rejoice; yayyyy…).
- Fixed a crash when using {alignat} within an equation (aka “alignot”, haha).
Have fun. Go back. Have fun.
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35 04/06/2024
This version brings various bug fixes and other tweaks.
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34.3 15/04/2024
- Fixed an issue where group and project names were set to 'Untitled' during syncing.
- Fixed a crash that occured when opening backups.
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34.2 20/03/2024
Fixes a performance problem when loading backups.
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34.1 07/02/2024
### Widgets
- Better late then never…
- Open projects right from your home screen.
- Create new sheets right from your home screen.
- Both actions are also available for your lock screen.
- There‘s even a dedicated Inbox widget, which works similar.
### Templates Group
- Projects now have a Templates group in Extras.
- If you drag a sheet to or from this group, it will always be copied.
- It’s a start.
### Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Updated WordPress preview theme to WordPress Twenty Twenty-Four (no more green, yay).
- Student offer should be available again (was on semester leave or so).
- Fixed cut-off "Help and Support" footer (details).
- Improved performance when loading many projects.
- Got rid of a couple of irrelevant error messages.
- Fixed a crash when launching Ulysses.
- Fixed a crash when switching between apps.
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34 29/01/2024
- Fixes an issue where the editor would be slow to react to keyboard input.
- Fixes misplaced equations in PDF and DOCX export.
- Fixes a rare crash while typing.
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