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.
Great app but too expensive
andreabox
I would have given Ulysses a higher rating if not for the fact that they're subscription-based and I'm experiencing a lot of issues trying to restore my purchase after buying a new laptop. To be fair, their tech support was very helpful and did their best to figure out the problem. Unfortunately, it's been a few days, and since I have a pile of work waiting, I can't sit still while they tinker with my subscription issues. This is how I discovered another app that's just as good as Ulysses feature-wise but requires only a one-time payment, as opposed to Ulysses' subscription model. I loved using Ulysses during the last 3 months but I'm happy to switch to my new writing app.
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zjL67
what i can say is that it’s a great app! just like notion it is very organizable and customizable..to my disappointment as a f2u user, you need a subscription just to create a new project. albeit with a 7 day free trial, i dont think it’s worth it… just saying
Developer Response
We’re sorry for the confusion! To start the free trial, you’ll need to begin a subscription. We chose this model—a free download with in-app purchases—so we can offer a fully functional trial directly through the App Store. Unfortunately, there’s no other way for us to provide a trial. You can find a full list of available subscription options in the app’s description under “Subscriptions.” The trial follows Apple’s standard App Store rules and can be canceled up to 24 hours before it ends.Ulysses is a minimalist writing app by design. Many features are intentionally tucked away to create a clean, distraction-free writing environment—which is exactly why tens of thousands of writers love working with Ulysses. That said, Ulysses offers powerful organizational tools, fully customizable export options, writing goals, material sheets, integrated blog publishing, and an advanced grammar and style check. You can find a complete feature list on our website at ulysses.app/features. Based on this, we believe our subscription price is well justified.We warmly invite you to give Ulysses a try. If you feel something is missing for your specific use case, we’d love to hear your feedback. And if you have any questions or run into any issues, our support team is always happy to help at help@ulysses.app. — Andrea
### 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
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Usage Data
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
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Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Colour Alone
Reduced Motion
Information
Provider
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