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What is Ulysses?

Ulysses for Mac lets you focus when you need to concentrate. It keeps all your texts neatly stuffed in its intuitive library. With a few clicks, Ulysses can create beautiful documents from your manuscripts: PDFs, web pages, even iBooks-ready ePubs.

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Ulysses for Mac lets you focus when you need to concentrate. It keeps all your texts neatly stuffed in its intuitive library. With a few clicks, Ulysses can create beautiful documents from your manuscripts: PDFs, web pages, even iBooks-ready ePubs.


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Year Founded
2011
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Leipzig, DE
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Prakash S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Innovative and beautiful and interface for easy docs creation"
The cloud connection and cloud workability is an amazing features, makes users to work anytime and access the data from anywhere. Easy creation o...
Zach Quest M.
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Zach Quest M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
2.5 out of 5
"Entry Level"
Easy to use and get into. The vertical screen split view is nice on macOS.
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Chris C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Can’t be beaten for IOS, pity it’s not for Windows"
Excellent use of the iPad screen and good used of working windows when shopping between chapters. I use Scrivener on my desktop, which is very d...
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What do you like best about Ulysses?

The cloud connection and cloud workability is an amazing features, makes users to work anytime and access the data from anywhere.

Easy creation of falders and adding multiple folder set and creating one out of batch, as it makes easy to view the files at one location.

There is also and editing and writing feature which enables to make the folders and data in it nore detailed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ulysses?

The data loss problem or data misplacing has been experienced many a times when transferring the docs from one setup to another. The back up feature is not as accurate as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ulysses solving and how is that benefiting you?

This has helped our team to manage and merge multiple files and documents and saves our device storage.

Also the proofreading feature is also in it which is making us to unify and analyse the whole data in the docs and make it professionally in looking and error free.

Easy to migrate and send documents created in thi via mails or any server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ulysses?

Easy to use and get into. The vertical screen split view is nice on macOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ulysses?

It lacks the specific features I wanted, despite having an in-depth tagging system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ulysses solving and how is that benefiting you?

A one stop shop where I can organize and build a catalog of notes and easily track them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matt C.
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What do you like best about Ulysses?

Clean interface, excellent integration of markdown, WordPress integration, gorgeous full screen and dark mode. Easy to use on the surface, but so powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ulysses?

There is nothing I don't like about the app thus far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ulysses solving and how is that benefiting you?

Markdown is great and it integrates well with WordPress, so blogging is so much easier. I also like to work on posts offline so there is no risk of data loss. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ulysses?

Excellent use of the iPad screen and good used of working windows when shopping between chapters.

I use Scrivener on my desktop, which is very different and Ulysses is better when working on the iPad

Good total word count feature, when you eventually found it.

Interesting grammar and spell checker. I now integrate Grammarly with it via a keyboard, which works a treat.

On the whole it's a great piece of software at a manageable price Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ulysses?

Somewhat bizarre access to things like total word count, though it's very good once the fog of the help system clears enough to point the way.

Not a great grammar checker, but it provides a starting point.

If it was available on Windows it would be nice to use across platforms ... sadly it's not Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ulysses solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's easier to use on the iPad than Scrivener, and the workspace is crisp and clean Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bryan M.
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What do you like best about Ulysses?

Choosing software for writing is a personal choice. I have used Ulyssess before they were a subscription pricing model and continue to use them now because they offer the cleanest interface, features like writing goals, and a library that is very easy to organize and search. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ulysses?

I still end up using Google Docs with colleagues sometimes, but would prefer to stay in Ulysses if I could, although they don't have the same level of collaboration features that Google Docs offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ulysses solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping text and notes organized in one place and editable from any device Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ulysses?

This app is simple and easy to learn and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ulysses?

It might be nice if there were some clear-cut integrations for saving to the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ulysses solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ulysses is helpful in that I can post my work to many different blogs such as Medium, Ghost, etc. This sames time and a lot of effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ulysses?

Creating documents has never been easier with Ulysses! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ulysses?

I wish the interface were a bit more user-friendly - the design could be sleeker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ulysses solving and how is that benefiting you?

In the virtual world that we work in, creating documents and forms of media are necessary. Ulysses makes it simple! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ulysses?

I love the clean interface, customizability, markdown support of the Apple ecosystem, Keyboard and Mouse support and the support to students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ulysses?

There is no option to save under Ulysses server, instead you have to save to the iPad, iCloud or Dropbox. This creates an inconvenience as I have to make sure that I am saving to the right place and syncing my devices to the right service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ulysses:

If you are considering changing to Ulysses, I would think about what devices you use frequently and your priorities in regards to having a system that is cross platform, available on the web, tag support and or ease of sync. Ulysses as of right now only supports the Apple Ecosystem ( Mac OS, iPad OS, iOS and Watch OS ) you won’t be able to access on the web or on windows platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ulysses solving and how is that benefiting you?

If you struggle writing or would love an beautiful interface that combines functionality and clean design I’d totally recommend Ulysses. The interface inspires you to type away, and with the features such as focusing on a line, automatic dark / light mode support and markdown, it makes it easier to just focus on what you are thinking and typing. It’s a beautiful experience! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ulysses?

This software is very intuitive and has a very pleasant interface visually, it is based on the orientation of the text generators in the direction of the digital area, it does not have an extensive list of menus on the contrary you have the availability of your text manager so from your keyboard It is a very useful program that many users use for the daily use of our work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ulysses?

It is a very expensive program in reality, it has its free version but it does not have the same freedoms, which brings its premium version. usually presents some failures in terms of synchronization with other programs or adaptations of other text managers, this usually occurs very little since most tools are already compatible with this great software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ulysses:

Recommended for Apple computer users. From any device, iPad, Macbook or iPhone we can download and use this great, very friendly manager that will allow us to do a better job. It is a tool that will undoubtedly facilitate your work by allowing you to create and edit documents wherever you are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ulysses solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is a very clean and useful tool, at work I use it to manage my office documents in a very practical way. In turn, it allows me to easily copy text from other text managers and integrate the content in a practical and useful way. It is an exclusive software for Apple computers and we can get it and download it from your application store, it has a free version and its paid version with multiple text management tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.