I love this app a lot of the time, but the amount of bugs make it too frustrating to use for sustained writing— I now import my docs from Google docs & format them for livingwriter as part of my drafting process when I’m further along. Very frustrating that simple bugs still aren’t fixed & I have def submitted numerous bug reports about this stuff for more than a year. For example, the type of quotation marks it uses on desktop versus the phone app are different, so if you’re editing in one and switch to the other, the “s are different. When editing in the middle of a doc on mobile, the font will randomly change so you have to undo what you’ve written and re-write it— but still sometimes it will change. Yesterday I was trying to edit one sentence and I had to re-do my edit 5 times before it stopped changing the font. It’s also very difficult to highlight the text and change the font, you have to press the button for formatting multiple times and sometimes rehighlight the text too. It can take 10-20 attempts.
The AI chapter-to-screenplay function was great at first but now it just puts your dialogue in the center of the page with your exposition still there.
The most frustrating bug— and increasingly frequent, which is what drove me to leave this review, is that the mobile app is now inconsistently syncing with the desktop app. I write on my phone when I’m not at home, and I write on my laptop when I am. Lately, the phone app almost NEVER updates with what I’ve written on desktop. Even if I restart the app, even if I look through my latest versions— my desktop draft seems to exist only on my desktop. SOMETIMES it will update, it’s not like permanently not syncing, but it’s been enough lately that I can no longer justify using the mobile app.
I love LivingWriter as a concept, I find it has a lot of cool features other apps don’t have & I like the aesthetic and future plans for the app. I use the cover art function a lot & find it gives me better results than most AI (I don’t actually use these images in marketing or publishing, but I like them for my own inspiration purposes). The issues with LivingWriter are more the continued small frustrations that impact user experience yet are not addressed as they implement other ambitious updates. Please get the foundation of you app more solid! I want this app to work as intended, that’s why I became a lifetime user!
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