Ondrej Holzman A year ago we were you featured the comprehensive Ulysses writing tool, which satisfied the most demanding pen writers on Mac and iPad. However, many also missed the slightly more mobile version that is coming now – Ulysses 2.5 works on Mac, iPad and finally also on iPhone.
Many users have been waiting for this update, but it is not only about the fact that Ulysses is now also available for iPhone. The developers have decided to bring even more functions from Mac to mobile applications, which makes Ulysses for iPad and iPhone really powerful tools.
Virtually anything you write or do in Ulysses on Mac can then be replicated in iOS. The perfectly functioning synchronization via iCloud ensures that you always have all your text at hand, wherever you open Ulysses, and 3D Touch, Split View, Slide Over work on the relevant devices, and there is no problem with the iPad Pro either.
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From the app Ulysses for iPad has become new in the App Store Ulysses Mobile, because it is a universal application. The Soulmen worked on it for a year, so it is now possible to use otherwise often desktop functions such as text statistics, writing goals, Markdown tools, footnotes, annotations and/or mass grouping and dividing of individual sheets on iPhones and iPads. the application is established.
Also available in iOS is a dark and light writing mode, adding images, links, notes and a wide range of text export options. At the same time, the application has an integrated system sharing menu, so whatever you write in Ulysses, you can then send it to any other application. Ulysses can easily become a hub for all your personal or professional "writing".
New for everyone, i.e. also on Mac, is the ability to import documents from Word into the library while preserving headings and other formatting.
Ulysses Mobile costs 20 euros, and if you also want the Mac app, you have to pay another 45 euros. A total of nearly 1 crowns for one application, even for multiple devices, is definitely not enough. On the other hand, there probably isn't a better text editor for Mac, iPhone, and iPad at the same time that offers so much on each device.
The developers have managed to transfer a truly "desktop-class" editor packed with features, but extremely easy to use, even to the smallest iPhone display, not to mention the iPad. Ulysses Mobile is a great addition to its Mac counterpart, but also works perfectly as a stand-alone unit.
If you work mainly on iPhone and/or iPad and writing is your daily bread, Ulysses is an obvious choice. If writing makes you a living and you're looking for comfort, it probably shouldn't be a problem to pay extra for it.
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Paying 65 euros for something that can't even do what a standard markdown web renderer can do, namely neither a mathjax script nor javascript, is pure debilitation.
This is one of the best apps I have (for simplicity I combine OS X and iOS apps) - I write practically everything in it: notes from meetings, lectures, notes, reports, etc... the texts are prepared with sufficient templates, otherwise I use LaTeX). I bought both applications in some campaign with a discount, so I had a little easier decision, but after the experience I have, I would buy it now even for "full money" - I wouldn't even hesitate. I tried a lot of applications, various write, iWrite, byword, evernote, etc. No dubious business models (subscriptions, etc.), perfect synchronization, perfect mobile application - this is exactly the case when I completely calmly put away the Mac and only take the iPad and vim that I have everything I need.
Are you kidding me :D
The notebook is already on the same level as this. I specifically use Notability to take notes from lectures, where I also record the audio from the lecture along with the text. However, if it is purely about writing without (very useful) recording, I definitely recommend the UPad 3.
I quickly googled it, and I would say that both of the mentioned applications are for something completely different than Ulysses. Also, I didn't find the UPad 3 in the OS X version (but I really spent a minute on it, so it's possible I missed it).
Well, unfortunately it's not on OS X, which I admit is a shame, but I don't understand your "they are used for something completely different"? How is it possible to write notes in some other way? :D
Why Odysseus and not iBook Author?
Can it create fixed spaces on iOS without an external keyboard? If not, then it's not a writing tool, but a notepad.
49,9 + 19,9€…? it would have to be thought of for me to exchange it for the classic Pages, which are free and certainly enough for medium-demanding users.
Exactly :)
To me, Pages is a program for something completely different (at least judging by the way I use Pages and Ulysses). The fact that both are typed on a keyboard does not mean that they compete or replace each other.
I don't have Ulysses, I just looked at the video and their site and it looks like a word processor like any other. Resp. plus minus the same as Pages with iCloud Drive…
But Ulysses is not exactly a word processor. Formatting is not its main functionality (thanks to Markdown, it allows you to create a certain text structure, but it does not solve formatting). Compared to Pages, it has perfect management of individual texts – folders, subfolders, keywords, etc. Pages does not deal with management at all – it leaves it to the file manager. So far, of all the applications I've tried, Evernote comes closest to Ullyses, but it has a completely impossible payment policy - to pay a monthly subscription to the service in order to have my own notes available offline, I personally prefer to buy a "full-fledged alication" for $50.
So should we buy Ulysses as an imperfect text editor but a great file manager? :-)))
Of course, buy what you want. But first of all, I recommend that you google the difference between a text editor and a word processor, and if you're already in it, then google the file manager as well, so that you won't be too disappointed after the purchase :-) And now it's important: if you need 1000 notes of various kinds (notes from meetings, various semester and diploma theses assignments for students, project preparation, experiment documentation, drafts of various articles, etc.) between which you need to quickly switch and at the same time you need to be able to write a richer text than just plain text - i.e. division into chapters, reflectors, etc., it's just a great tool. Of course, you can replace it with pages and finder, but it will be incredibly impractical. I use both Pages, Keynote, Mind node, Ulysses and many other applications that partially overlap each other (you can also make a slideshow in the finale in Pages, just as you need to get the text of the book into a mind map or Keynote), but each of these applications he specializes in something, he's good at it and it has its place.
The author obviously does not know the meaning of the word "pen", in short, it is just such a pen.
For me, it's an overpriced notepad.
Exactly. What more does it bring than how much it "takes away"?