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 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.
I have not expected such greatness!
Gediminas S.
I have not expected to find such a nice accomplished App for writing books.You can easily feel the new way of looking at software in this product - User interface, functions, logic, design. At it's best!There is no old-school software ugliness in it. Where you have hundreds of buttons all around and you never use them... You don't have this here. All you have is perfectly made User Interface with elegant functions exactly needed to write, preview and publish the book. It is amazing. I'm almost shocked to see the best piece of quality in the books writing area. I have never expected this. I'm very glad.
App doesn't have anything free
Meilmut
They just trying to fool you that some funtions of the app are free. You cannot use it without the subscription
Developer Response
We are sorry about the confusion! You have to take out a subscription to start the free trial. We are merely utilizing the standard App Store trial provided by Apple which can be canceled anytime up to 24 hours before the trial period expires. The trial period lasts 14 days. We opted for a free download with in-app purchases so we can offer a fully-functional trial in the App Store and there is no other way to realize this. A list of available subscription options is also displayed in the app's description (under the heading “In-App Purchases“). Should you have any questions about the subscription options or using Ulysses in general, please contact us via help@ulysses.app. —Andrea
### New
**Ready for iOS 27**
- Ulysses feels right at home on Apple’s latest operating system. Toolbar, menus, icons, everything.
**Siri AI**
- Full support for the latest Siri: On-screen awareness. Ask Siri. Write with Siri. (Not in the EU, sigh.)
**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 accessibility support when editing filter conditions and group icons.
- Improved performance when finding sheets in Open Quickly.
- Improved passing around sheet contents in Shortcuts.
### Fixes
- Fixed a performance issue when using the magic keyboard with trackpad. This was really annoying, hard to pin down and reproduce, but it’s gone now. Ulysses will feel like a new app for those who were affected.
- Fixed a crash when clearing a daily goal.
- Fixed a crash when adding a goal.
- Fixed a crash when exporting to Markdown.
- Fixed duplicated Close buttons in export preview on iPad.
- Fixed display of sheets in the sheet list after dragging them around.
- 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
Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Voice Control
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Colour Alone
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Size
286.9 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