Shockingly underrated
This app is rather like Scrivener. A little hard to use and rough around the edges yes but still good and being free it’s surprisingly amazing and very underrated. I’d highly suggest giving it a chance.
Great Program, Lousy App
I’m new to LivingWriter. Frankly I’ve been very impressed with the program - only when I use it through a web browser.
This app is horrible. it fails to sync properly with the web, response is laggy most of the time, and the UI is a mystery at times. Editing formats works some of the time.
Just not ready for prime time. If you plan on using an iPad app as your main source of entry - use something other than LivingWriter.
This app is horrible. it fails to sync properly with the web, response is laggy most of the time, and the UI is a mystery at times. Editing formats works some of the time.
Just not ready for prime time. If you plan on using an iPad app as your main source of entry - use something other than LivingWriter.
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Oh dear
After using WORD for many years to write books, I decided to try a highly rated tool, this one. Whoever reviewed it on the web may have accidentally put 5 stars instead of one as it is really not good at all. Difficult to navigate, unable to undo deleted items easily, i have not found anything in this App that I can do in Word. Sorry.
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Doesn’t work
Would be great if the app worked at all. For a premium service this is appalling!
Steady Improvement
Their social media presence is too minimal to make me totally comfortable. And they do seem to lag on their projected timeline for upgrades. But they just (quietly) keep plugging away and improving the tool. Version 2 is shaping up to be a pretty good product. Scriptwriting. Templates. Footnotes. There are some cool tools in addition to the standard set. They just need to step up their visibility with their customer base.
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Still buggy
LW keep releasing new versions but many features still simply don’t work - try adding a cover image on a manuscript for example
Bugs, a completely botched upgrade process, service outages and a lot of questionable UX choices - for a subscription based service - they need to do a LOT better if they want my renewal dollars
Bugs, a completely botched upgrade process, service outages and a lot of questionable UX choices - for a subscription based service - they need to do a LOT better if they want my renewal dollars
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Sometimes a hit sometimes a miss.
I’ve been using LivingWriter for a little over 6 months now to write a novel. There are features of this application that are great to use like logging how much you’ve written per session, organizing writing per chapter, and having the ability to organize and create detailed notes for your writing.
However there are severe problems with LivingWriter’s newest update and persistent problems that the developers haven’t taken immediate action in fixing. Updating a UI for quality of life is all well and good. But still having issues where hours of your writing in a session completely disappears is inexcusable to sell to a consumer.
Small features in this version like page count, and the ability to reorder chapters within your manuscript have also been completely removed or hidden in some capacity. Which were features really selling the product for me as a user.
It isn’t that LivingWriter is a bad product with no redeeming qualities. But the fact that these paramount issues have not gone immediately corrected by it’s staff means that there is a real disconnect when maintaining this product for its user base. Especially considering it’s user base has to PAY for a S U B S C R I P T I O N to use it.
There aren’t many other choices out there for writing software. But I’d suggest anyone look for alternative apps that are better tailored to your writing needs before immediately settling on this one.
However there are severe problems with LivingWriter’s newest update and persistent problems that the developers haven’t taken immediate action in fixing. Updating a UI for quality of life is all well and good. But still having issues where hours of your writing in a session completely disappears is inexcusable to sell to a consumer.
Small features in this version like page count, and the ability to reorder chapters within your manuscript have also been completely removed or hidden in some capacity. Which were features really selling the product for me as a user.
It isn’t that LivingWriter is a bad product with no redeeming qualities. But the fact that these paramount issues have not gone immediately corrected by it’s staff means that there is a real disconnect when maintaining this product for its user base. Especially considering it’s user base has to PAY for a S U B S C R I P T I O N to use it.
There aren’t many other choices out there for writing software. But I’d suggest anyone look for alternative apps that are better tailored to your writing needs before immediately settling on this one.
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What a mess
This app is a nightmare. Glitchy, clunky and close to unusable - and this is supposed to be the new improved version! Writing is a lacklustre experience but the board views are truly shambolic. The plot board is unusable - cards don’t move when you want them to, then they suddenly fly all over the place when you move the cursor, wrecking what you have been planning. And you can’t move a card to an empty space unless you have already created the plot line in the desktop version - if you create it in this app, it doesn’t work.
The developers need to do some serious work on this - and quickly!
I was thinking of making LivingWriter my main writing app (as the desktop version is pretty good), but I like to work away from the desk, and after experiencing this app, there’s no chance of that. Dabble is a much better proposition - even without a dedicated iOS app, and having to rely on its web app. (At least the web app works - unlike this app.)
The developers need to do some serious work on this - and quickly!
I was thinking of making LivingWriter my main writing app (as the desktop version is pretty good), but I like to work away from the desk, and after experiencing this app, there’s no chance of that. Dabble is a much better proposition - even without a dedicated iOS app, and having to rely on its web app. (At least the web app works - unlike this app.)
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