Ulysses vs. Scrivener: The Ultimate Writing App

Writing is a trade that doesn’t require many tools at all. One of the greatest decisions in my writing when it came to putting together longer works, though, was my move from a word-processor app to the writing-specific app, Ulysses.

But most of my friends are writers, too, and I see Scrivener on their screens almost as often as I hear Scrivener referenced by curious writers. I used Scrivener for a time, too, and while I ended up with Ulysses, it’s another great writing app.

It comes down to what you value most in a writing app: clean simplicity or thick and thorough customization. One thing’s for certain, though: Both beat the absolute hell out of a plain, old word processor. After having used these two apps, I’ll never go back to a word processor for writing long works.

Ulysses (opens