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
Privacy Policy: https://ulysses.app/app-privacy-policy
Focus on your prose and organize 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.
Simple, elegant, powerful
Trip to Itaca
The process of capturing and organizing thoughts in a meaningful way is intuitive before being rational. I found Ulysses a very useful tool, simple and powerful, to create elegant prose.
Developer Response
Thank you for your kind words! Should you ever have any questions or encounter any difficulties while using Ulysses, you can always contact us via help@ulysses.app –Lisa
So disappointed ...
mtyeo
I just got my brand new Mac Mini set up from Christmas, and one of the very first things I did after updating the OS was head to the app store to get Ulysses. After 10 years in the Windows world, I was ready for a good writing app again.First ... subscription. I'm not totally averse to a subscription model, but that price is honestly ludicrous. My last copy of Ulysses cost me $60CAD, and while that was a lot for a text editor, I used it for 4.5 years, so it ended up being a tiny bit over a dollar a month to run. Now they want $5.99CAD/mo? I'm paying in a year what I used to pay period. Uh ... no. The authors know there's FREE text editors in the app store, right? That I can get a competitor like Bear that does virtually everything Ulysses does for 1/3 the price?Which brings me to the design ... Ulysses used to have multiple panels open at once, so I'd have my current chapter, the setting for that chapter, the main character(s) for that chapter, and my research notes all open at once. Now I'm flipping back and forth and forth and back to get that same information in the 3 column design. Sure, it's easy and fast, but you aren't getting easier or faster than having it always avaialble, like it used to.So, if three column design is the modern route, and I'm stuck with this methodology, I'm going to save myself some money.
Developer Response
We are sorry you feel this way. You seem to have bought Ulysses 2, which you should be able to download here for free (see second last FAQ item): https://ulysses.app/faq Regarding Ulysses’ price: Given the full functionality of Ulysses, we believe that the price of our subscription is justified. For about the equivalent of one cup of Starbucks coffee per month, you get incredible organizational opportunities, fully customizable export, attachments, setting writing goals and the ability to publish blogs in an environment that allows you to fully focus without being distracted by anything thanks to a simple and intuitive air interface. A complete list of all the functions that Ulysses contains is available on our website: https://ulysses.app/features/table Regarding the possibility to view multiple sheets simultaneously: You can achieve this via Split View. You can read more about this via our “Split View” tutorial which you can find here: https://ulysses.app/tutorials/split-view In case of any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us via help@ulysses.app –Lisa
Why?
iLag88
Why would you possibly think subscription based pricing is the way to go? No thanks.
Developer Response
We are sorry how our move to subscription came across to you. We have thought very long – for years, really – and hard about our move to a subscription-based model. We haven’t taken this decision lightly, because we always want what’s best for our users. In the end, we came to the conclusion that the switch was the best way to ensure a sustainable app for the years to come. We have explained our thought process and our reasoning here: http://medium.com/building-ulysses Please also keep in mind that you can keep using the pre-subscription version of Ulysses as long as you like. It's a completely separate app and has already been optimized for Apple's current operating systems. If you should have any questions or feedback in general, please don‘t hesitate to contact directly via help@ulysses.app –Lea
### New
**Ready for macOS 27**
- Ulysses feels right at home on Apple’s latest operating system. Sidebar, menus, icons, everything.
**Siri AI**
- Full support for the latest Siri: On-screen awareness. Ask Siri. Write with Siri.
- You can turn this off.
**Customizable Toolbar**
- You can now add, remove, and freely rearrange toolbar items.
- We have updated our default toolbar to include buttons for strong, emphasis, links and paragraph markup, Writing Tools/Siri AI, and Open Quickly.
- There are many more buttons available, such as fixed scrolling on/off, editor fullscreen (aka “hide all sidebars”), and most markup actions (add image, footnote, etc.).
**Project Templates**
- When creating a new project, you can now select a template, so projects start with a couple of dummy groups and sheets.
### Improvements
- Added a couple of much requested group icons, such as pizza, sparkles or a tram (¯\_(ツ)\_/¯).
- Improved handling of HDR images in both the editor and dashboard.
- Improved accessibility support when editing filter conditions and group icons.
- Improved navigation of the UI using VoiceOver.
- Improved performance when finding sheets in Open Quickly.
- Improved passing around sheet contents in Shortcuts.
- Newly created project will now open right away, instead of just sitting there.
### Fixes
- Fixed performance issues when typewriter scrolling was activated.
- Fixed a layout bug with tables when the editor was being resized (Lutz: sorry for the long wait).
- Fixed a crash when clearing a daily goal.
- Fixed a crash when exporting to Markdown.
- Fixed a bug where using Writing Tools’ proofread action would insert the wrong contents.
- Fixed a bug where a sheet would be updated unnecessarily when opening an equation editor.
If you're happy with the app, please rate it, or even leave a review. This is a great way to support us indie developers. Thanks a lot!
Version 41.1
The developer, Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Purchases
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
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Supported Features
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Voice Control
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Colour Alone
Reduced Motion
Information
Seller
Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
Size
35.7 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.4 or later.
Languages
English and 11 more
English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
