Ulysses is a writing tool for the Mac that is polished, well organized, and targeted at those interested in a clean, distraction-free writing environment. Ulysses succeeds by not trying to compete with big word processing apps, such as, and its myriad features that tend to clutter things up.

Instead, Ulysses is geared toward writing pros that want an app that gets out of the way and lets them get their thoughts on paper (so to speak), without too much concern about how things are formatted. And yet, Ulysses is able to produce properly formatted documents for print, the web, and eBooks. Ulysses manages your sheets within its internal library.

Sheets can be organized into groups and smart groups. Groups can be anything you wish, perhaps a project, with all the sheets pertaining to that project stored within. Smart groups are similar to; they display the results of a preset search. Ulysses comes with one smart group set up for you: all sheets you have worked on in the last seven days. You can, of course, create your own smart groups, such as all sheets with specific keywords or titles.

While we've broadly looked at a few of Ulysses features, it's time to get an idea of what it's like using this writing tool. Ulysses opens with a single-window app displaying three panes. The left-most is the Library pane. Here you'll find all library groups, smart groups, iCloud, and On My Mac library entries. Selecting one of the library groups will display all sheets associated with the selected item in the middle pane. Finally, selecting one of the sheets from the middle pane will display the sheet within the editor pane on the right, where you can edit a document or start working on a new one.

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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. 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 save, 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. 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 & Medium Do you blog? Ulysses' offers best-in-class WordPress & Medium publishing.

You can post to WordPress from right within the app - complete with images, tags, categories etc. Publishing to Medium works just as easy, and both offer a built-in preview to proof-read before submission. Pricing Ulysses requires a subscription. We offer monthly and yearly subscription plans, as well as a special discount for students. There's also a fully functional 14-day trial, so you can test Ulysses (including export and sync) before you commit.