United States“The biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.” —Michael Marshall Smith, bestselling author Typewriter. Ring-binder. Scrapbook. Scrivener combines all the writing tools you need to craft your first draft, from nascent notion to final full stop. Tailor-made for creating long manuscripts, Scrivener banishes page fright by allowing you to compose your text in any order, in sections as large or small as you like. Got a great idea but don’t know where it fits? Write when inspiration strikes and find its place later. Grow your manuscript organically, idea by idea. Whether you plan or plunge, Scrivener works your way: meticulously outline every last detail first, or hammer out a complete draft and restructure later. Or do a bit of both. All text sections in Scrivener are fully integrated with its outlining tools, so working with an overview of your manuscript is only ever a tap away, and turning Chapter Four into Chapter One is as simple as drag and drop. Need to refer to research? In Scrivener, your background material is always at hand. Write a description based on a photograph. Reference a video or PDF. Check for consistency with an earlier chapter. On the iPad, open two documents side-by-side; on the iPhone, flip between research and writing with just two taps. Once you’re ready to share your work with the world, simply compile everything into a single document for printing, or export to popular formats such as Word, PDF, Final Draft or plain text. You can even share using different formatting, so that you can write in your favorite font and still keep your editor happy. FEATURES Get Started • Interactive tutorial project • Keep each manuscript and supporting materials in a self-contained project • Import Word, RTF, Final Draft and plain text files • Easily split imported text into separate sections Get Writing • Write your manuscript in sections of any size • View all sections as a single text using the “Draft Navigator” (iPad only) • Quickly navigate sections using the “binder” sidebar • Format with fonts and presets • Comments, footnotes, links and highlights • Simple bullets and lists • Insert images • Pinch-zoom to resize text • Full-screen mode (iPad only) • Typewriter scrolling mode keeps typed text center-screen (iPad only) • Write a screenplay using scriptwriting mode • Live word and character counts • Set word and character count targets • Find and replace • Customizable keyboard row provides quick-access buttons for formatting, navigation and punctuation • Comprehensive keyboard shortcuts for external keyboard users • Dark mode Find Your Structure • Write in any order and reorganize later • Write a synopsis for any text section and see it in the outline • Expand, collapse and drill down into sections of your project • Rearrange sections as index cards on the corkboard (iPad only) • Project-wide search • Track ideas using labels and status • Apply custom icons to your sections Refer to Research • Import research material such as image, PDF and media files • View research files or other sections right alongside your writing (iPad only) • Every section has its own notes area for jotting down ideas • Supports multitasking split screen mode (supported devices only) Share Your Work • Compile to a single document for sharing or printing • Use different formatting in your exported or printed document • Export to Word, RTF, Final Draft, PDF or plain text • Convert rich text to Markdown for sharing with Markdown apps • Create and email zipped backups of your projects Work Anywhere • Use Dropbox to sync between devices and with the macOS and Windows versions of Scrivener* • Copy projects between devices via iTunes * Requires a Dropbox account (not compatible with iCloud). SUPPORT You can contact us at [email protected], visit our forums at http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum, or find us @scrivenerapp on Twitter.
So much to love and to hate
I want to use Scrivener very much. I’ve put hours of endless troubleshooting into setting up Dropbox to sync between my Mac, iPad and iPhone and absolutely cannot get it to sync no matter what I try. For background, I’m a web developer and I’m extremely familiar with networking issues, ports, firewalls, etc. I can troubleshoot complicated CDN issues but getting Scrivener to sync with Dropbox is beyond me. While I’m a big fan of Scrivener’s software, despite the fact it’s become very dated due to it’s 6+ year absence of a major update, I STILL want to use it but it needs to actually work, it doesn’t. So if you think you’re going to simply buy this and it will somehow magically work with your desktop version of Scrivener you may be in for a surprise. I’ve given up and will wait for the vaporous version 4 which will hopefully include iCloud sync or even better, WIFI sync. In the meantime, I may get hooked on something else and never come back.
United StatesThe only way I can ever make myself write to a concerning degree
Forgive my grammar and formatting and stuff I cannot be bothered right now I am sleepy My main complaint: I want to change my background color! I want a baby pink page :( also the ability to shrink pictures, move them around, ect. But mainly I want a baby pink background. Oooh and thumbnails to the stories:))) I got this app as a birthday present, and it is the only way I can make myself write. I can’t write on a google doc, I can’t write on a pink google doc littered with pretty pictures with a pretty bright pink font and baby sensory videos right next to my tab. Nope. I can only write if it is on scrivener. I don’t understand why. In my head, Google docs should work much better. It’s much easier and better to work with. With scrivener, I started and finished a 15,000 word chapter story draft in a little over a month. I had a deadline for a birthday, and I did it. I did edit it on Google docs, but it was completely exhausting. Maybe it would’ve been different on scrivener. This app is the only thing that makes me write to a worrying degree. My therapist thought I couldn’t write anything because I was so unmotivated by my depression that it was making me completely unproductive. Nope! Scrivener. Surrounding myself in pink, cute things, plushies, music, bribing myself with food, it didn’t do a THING. The only thing that makes me write is this damned app. I haven’t been able to type a single word onto a Google Doc, let alone open the app in ages. It’s been weeks and all I can do is sulk at how lazy I am and complain to my therapists and argue no, I can be depressed AND lazy. But I open scrivener for for the first time in a while, and I write over 1,000 words with very little difficulty. It’s like magic. It’s like god is apologizing for wronging me and gifting me this app right on top of a stack of velvet pillows as the cure to my woes. I’m going to take a shower and then I’m going to write more. Add baby pink backgrounds, and then I will love you even more, Scrivener <3
United StatesVery Bare Bones
It turns out that I have to pay another $5.00 for another app, Scrivio Pro, to get any useful features and to top it off, the apps won’t even sync my file so I get to copy and paste everything over.
United StatesConfusing back up system
As much as I enjoyed this as a writing tool, it has tortured me in lost content and would not recommend it to anyone. I have lost hundreds of pages now of writing representing thousands of hours of work. I can see all these files in faint gray but cannot find anyway to open any of them. Addendum: customer support was helpful in that they helped me retrieve my files. I was using Dropbox as recommended and they suggested that the issues were on that end. That may be true but now I’m too nervous to go through this again and will just go back to old reliable Pages with ICloud back up. I honestly enjoy writing on Scrivener better with the organization tools they offer, but, still, not worth it.
United StatesHelpful writing app
I was recommended this app when I decided to put together my first book and its been a total life saver. Easy to use and understand the system which was great because I was worried about learning a whole new system just to be able to collect my writings. I do wish that when you purchase on a ipad that it would be able to come up on the iMac like say goodnotes does. The double app purchasing is what has kept me on the ipad version only. Beyond that I adore this program and am so thankful for it because I can write when creativity strikes without losing my place and I can mix and match sections when I have a ideas that dont fit just yet.
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Use it every day
United StatesEdit your book while you’re laying in bed
Let’s be honest. No one’s going to write a novel on Scrivener for iPhone. (Maybe on the iPad version. I can’t comment on that.) However, I’ve done plenty of reading, editing, revisions, rewrites, and annotations from the comfort of my iPhone and my bed. Do the heavy lifting with the full app running under WINE, Windows, or macOS. Research. Write your first draft. Sync to Dropbox. Sleep and sober up. Fire up the iOS app and edit to your heart’s content while you’re laying awake at night. Review the hard chapters while sitting on a train. Add a clever thought to the manuscript while sitting in a dive bar. Paste a screenshot into the research binder and paraphrase it in the morning. It works for me. Hopefully it works for you too. Everyone’s process is different, and while Scrivener for iOS isn’t my primary writing app, I don’t know what I’d do without it.
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Apr 17, 2024
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Apr 14, 2024
• Updated for iOS 17. • Fixed issue whereby you could tap outside of the new text/folder sheet to dismiss it, and thus accidentally lose a synopsis you were adding. • Fixed bug whereby “Split” didn’t work in the text when the selection was at the end. • Fixed bug whereby the “Style to” scriptwriting setting did not work. • Fixed bug whereby the “Style to” scriptwriting setting could cause a crash in some circumstances. • Fixed crash that could occur when setting certain fonts as the default, and in other circumstances related to font changes. • Fixed bug whereby the keyboard accessory bar on the iPhone might be cut off by phone features such as the home bar. • Fixed bug whereby the “Look Up” popover in the main text and notes would disappear immediately. • Fixed bug whereby if you tried to search for a font, the fonts popover would disappear. • Fixed bug whereby the share sheet would disappear when trying to share text from the main editor or notes. • Fixed bug whereby, in full screen mode, the top of the navigation bar could collapse after multitasking, resulting in controls being too close to the top of the screen. • Fixed bug whereby typing on an iPhone could disappear beneath the on-screen keyboard. • Fixed bug whereby typewriter scrolling on an iPad when using the on-screen keyboard could create too much empty space and result in the typing disappearing off the top of the view. • Fixed bug whereby the buttons in the keyboard accessory row may use light mode colours in dark mode. • Fixed bug whereby “Allow Negatives” in session targets would always be reset to off. • Fixed bug whereby temporarily setting the session target to 0 while changing the target could reset the current session count. • Fixed clipping of numbers in the target settings picker. • Fixed bug whereby, in dark mode, text in Compile’s Appearance editor would turn black and thus become unreadable on editing. • The Appearance “i” button in Compile now works with VoiceOver, making it possible to access the Appearance editor using VoiceOver.
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