No AI! Done with Google Docs
Love Ellipsus so much! I appreciate that they are staunchly anti-AI. I am moving everything from Google docs and Microsoft word over to Ellipsus now. I only discovered the desktop version recently, so I was very excited to see the app release!
Fantastic app, needs QOL!
I’ve been waiting for Ellipsus to come to iOS for forever! In short, I’m very happy with its features, but it needs a bit of a quality of life update before I’m truly satisfied.
1) It is a bit laggy. Even on files with nothing written in them, Ellipsus often stutters when I open any menus. It also struggles to connect to its servers and update the page sometimes.
2) There’s no minimize keyboard button. Once the keyboard is up, you have no way to put it back down (to read your thing) unless you tap into the main menu. This is very irritating. I like to read my own writing while I’m writing it. Please let me be vain.
3) It keeps forcing me back into its default font, which is serif (a crime). I wish that either it would stay in the font I’ve written the rest of the document in, or there was a way to change the default font.
Those are the only major issues I’ve discovered so far. I think this will be a great alternative to Google docs with a little bit of polish.
1) It is a bit laggy. Even on files with nothing written in them, Ellipsus often stutters when I open any menus. It also struggles to connect to its servers and update the page sometimes.
2) There’s no minimize keyboard button. Once the keyboard is up, you have no way to put it back down (to read your thing) unless you tap into the main menu. This is very irritating. I like to read my own writing while I’m writing it. Please let me be vain.
3) It keeps forcing me back into its default font, which is serif (a crime). I wish that either it would stay in the font I’ve written the rest of the document in, or there was a way to change the default font.
Those are the only major issues I’ve discovered so far. I think this will be a great alternative to Google docs with a little bit of polish.
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Better than google docs and Microsoft word. I highly recommend.
I never write app reviews, this is actually my first one in about 7 years. So…keep that in mind, lol. I’m not afraid to admit I found out about this app on tumblr. The announcement post was reposted by someone I follow and at first I was skeptical (as I am of any new app.) After doing some research about the company and learning about their anti ai stance & goals in general, I decided to just bite the bullet and download it. I am genuinely blown away. I like the formatting and how easy it is to use. I enjoy the themes and the features. I just wish it would stop making my freaking font smaller!! Eh that’s my fault though. Is the app a bit buggy here and there? Yeah. But it’s a new app, people. it’s going to have flaws & it doesn’t frustrate me that much. Enough yapping from ur Tío…go write that story.
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Overall good but needs a few things!
I was super excited when I saw the email that the iOS app was out as I do almost all of my writing on Ellipsus now and have grown quite comfortable with it on browser! The app itself is nice, but there’s also definitely a few things to be ironed out, which is entirely understandable with such a new app. I don’t find many issues with lag while writing, but trying to exit out of a work or open works larger than 30k does take a few seconds to load vs near instantly on a browser. For a much larger work (96k) it did lag annoyingly long and as many of my next projects will be just as long if not longer, I may just continue to use the browser for them until it gets less laggy. Additionally for lag, anytime you click onto a new screen/popup (side bar, timer button, etc) there’s a small moment of lag.
Also please please please add an option to hide your keyboard when you’re done typing!! When I’m editing, especially on my phone, I love to edit a few things as I read through and it gets super annoying to not be able to close the keyboard when I’m done.
No regrets on downloading at all and super excited for the app to get a bit smoother!
Also please please please add an option to hide your keyboard when you’re done typing!! When I’m editing, especially on my phone, I love to edit a few things as I read through and it gets super annoying to not be able to close the keyboard when I’m done.
No regrets on downloading at all and super excited for the app to get a bit smoother!
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Font keeps changing when starting a new paragraph
Edit: One thing I’ve noticed is that the font when starting a new paragraph keeps changing back to Literata. I keep having to change it back to lunasima
I’m gonna come clean, ao3 shutting down temporarily has pushed me to start writing my own fics. But I don’t like to use google docs or Microsoft word with the ai use and the need for a subscription.
I’ve really enjoyed Ellipsus, it’s simple to use and understand, I like that we can change colour themes, I like how organised it is without being too complicated. An example being that I’ve tried notion but found it a little less user friendly and a bit hard to learn, whereas Ellipsus had easy to understand folders and even templates that I liked and gave me inspiration.
I like that we can change languages easily for spell checking purposes. I can’t wait for chapters to be released. I’m a little disappointed that we can’t insert images greater than 512kb for free users, but I understand the team needs their money to keep the app going. I’m just not as enthusiastic about monthly subscriptions and over $100 AUD is just a bit too expensive for me currently. But hopefully the more popular the app becomes the more subscribers the team can get to support all your work! I’m excited for new features and updates :)
I’m gonna come clean, ao3 shutting down temporarily has pushed me to start writing my own fics. But I don’t like to use google docs or Microsoft word with the ai use and the need for a subscription.
I’ve really enjoyed Ellipsus, it’s simple to use and understand, I like that we can change colour themes, I like how organised it is without being too complicated. An example being that I’ve tried notion but found it a little less user friendly and a bit hard to learn, whereas Ellipsus had easy to understand folders and even templates that I liked and gave me inspiration.
I like that we can change languages easily for spell checking purposes. I can’t wait for chapters to be released. I’m a little disappointed that we can’t insert images greater than 512kb for free users, but I understand the team needs their money to keep the app going. I’m just not as enthusiastic about monthly subscriptions and over $100 AUD is just a bit too expensive for me currently. But hopefully the more popular the app becomes the more subscribers the team can get to support all your work! I’m excited for new features and updates :)
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So buggy it’s kind of unusable unfortunately :(
Heard great things about this app and decided to give it a try. I use Scrivener on my laptop and will sometimes use Google Docs for writing on my phone or iPad but trying to get away. I’m really trying to give the benefit of the doubt but it just can’t really handle much of the basic tasks on an iPhone. Now partially this is the iPhone itself and how their software works but doesn’t make it any less hard to use. I was excited to use this for my long manuscript but it’s seeming less likely :(
- The entire app is super clunky, panels are jumpy and not smooth. The text formatting tab is the one I use most often and is really bad
- Hitting the top of the screen does not scroll to the top which one might expect
- If you select a bunch of text and you’re unlucky and the iPhone Paste/Select/Select All menu appears you can’t access any of the top panel menus.
- I keep hitting the little snippet button instead of the text formatting which is my fault but the icon is very similar.
- The entire app is super clunky, panels are jumpy and not smooth. The text formatting tab is the one I use most often and is really bad
- Hitting the top of the screen does not scroll to the top which one might expect
- If you select a bunch of text and you’re unlucky and the iPhone Paste/Select/Select All menu appears you can’t access any of the top panel menus.
- I keep hitting the little snippet button instead of the text formatting which is my fault but the icon is very similar.
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It doesn’t work
Nothing works in the program
Help
I love Ellipsus but please the app needs more fine tuning as it lags!!
can’t access… 🥶
Look, I LOVE this platform. after all of the Google Docs allegations, I switched to this one. at first I had zero hope, but the themes, being able to save into fanfic mode?? it is THE writing platform, omg. so when I heard they were making a app I was super excited!! since I’m Apple it took longer, but I was still excited! I’m aware ellipsus gets laggy after 20k words or so in pages, so I knew it wouldn’t be perfect. but, I download the app and at 100k words, my phone is unable to enter my draft 😔. seems I will have the bookmark still until this is fixed. this is still very new so I understand, but it’s still disappointing! still gets a good rating since it’s ellipsus, but I hope it’s fixed in the future, as I can only access this through website right now. 😔
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still in dev
so obv far from perfect but its great. only nitpick is move the delete account button so its not somewhere so obvious lol
Great app for writing, needs some QOL
Fantastic app for writing and really great customization/focus options. My only complaint is that there are some quality of life features I would like to see implemented. I would love to have a button that takes me directly to the home menu while in a document in a folder. Currently, if you’re in a document you have click a menu, click the parent folder, click back, and then you’re at the home page. Lots of clicking! I also don’t understand why each item takes up so much screen space? I can only see two documents/folders on my screen at the same time! I would maybe understand it if that room was allocated to displaying a description or something, but from what I can tell it’s just dead space. So, overall, great app, just some minor QOL complaints.
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Exactly what I need!
Awesome to see Ellipsus bring out an app! Everything I’ve used so far seems to work the same as desktop and syncs up properly. Fellow human authors this is the place to be if you’re looking to replace google docs for writing!
Update!: Requested in a previous review that the devs smooth out the iOS ‘double space to add a period/full stop’ and I just noticed that they have! A great service with a responsive team that’s evidently listening <3
Update!: Requested in a previous review that the devs smooth out the iOS ‘double space to add a period/full stop’ and I just noticed that they have! A great service with a responsive team that’s evidently listening <3
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It’s free, try it for yourself!
Docked a star off for no Duo optimisation, a few bugs here and there, and syncing issues (usually quickly remedied).
But overall quite smooth, and the font options are, compared to most writing apps/software, each very unique and there’s no like 15 fonts that look exactly the same crowding the selection list. There is an inactive Reddit community but a very active discord. Very transparent in what things they’re currently working on and they take user requests seriously, and, most importantly, update pretty frequently. And they have a very firm stance against AI, and NO GENERATIVE AI anywhere in the website and iOS app, which so so nice compared to many other apps out there (I’m looking at you, Google Docs).
Please optimize for the Duo! Thank you!
But overall quite smooth, and the font options are, compared to most writing apps/software, each very unique and there’s no like 15 fonts that look exactly the same crowding the selection list. There is an inactive Reddit community but a very active discord. Very transparent in what things they’re currently working on and they take user requests seriously, and, most importantly, update pretty frequently. And they have a very firm stance against AI, and NO GENERATIVE AI anywhere in the website and iOS app, which so so nice compared to many other apps out there (I’m looking at you, Google Docs).
Please optimize for the Duo! Thank you!
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I love the web version but the app lags a lot
I really hope this can be fixed! I really like the web version and was thrilled to hear about the app but even now after updating it it still lags A LOT. Even on 700 word document… so on 20k word doc it just freezes 😭😭
Best writing app ever!
I don’t think I’ve ever downloaded an app so fast in my life. After I found out that google has been scraping data from their users, I knew I had to switch to something else, and Ellipsus is perfect for that. It is incredibly easy to transfer documents into the app, and the app itself is wonderful in every way. You can choose what colour theme you want, and the ui is wonderful in my opinion (always visible word count my beloved). Apparently you can import pictures too, I haven’t tried that yet but that is so cool.
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So far so good
I think that everything works pretty fine and it’s probably so much better than both Google Docs and Apple Pages IMO. But there’s kinda this bug that I have been experiencing on my iPhone 13: whenever I highlight text, italicize it, and press space for a new paragraph, it always turns into bold format, even though I have never pressed Bold itself. I don't know if it’s just my phone acting up, but can you please go and take a look at that? Thanks.
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Gonna wait for bugs to be fixed
I absolutely love the look and layout of the app. Being an iPad user, i have only just discovered this app and have heard many good things however i will not be able to use it until the bugs are fixed, especially when writing in a long document. I will keep it downloaded and wait for the updates, but will be sticking with my old app for now.
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Great
Very happy Ellipsus now has a dedicated app. A must download for writers who do not want generative AI forced upon them
Pretty Good
The web version is better but it’s a nice alternative to docs or word.
The ui is very pretty and it’s overall nice to use. I do find it can be a bit laggy at times.
I more so use on the web but it’s nice to have something connected to the cloud so I can access on mobile devices as well. Still early in its life so hopping some lags and bugs will be ironed out
The ui is very pretty and it’s overall nice to use. I do find it can be a bit laggy at times.
I more so use on the web but it’s nice to have something connected to the cloud so I can access on mobile devices as well. Still early in its life so hopping some lags and bugs will be ironed out
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Works great for my tablet!
I’ve been an Ellipsus user for a few months now, and I’ve always appreciated the effort they put into making their product easy to use and navigate. But now having the app on hand makes me love it even more!
I typically write using my tablet, so when I was just using the website, there’d be shifting issues where pulling up the keyboard would push the screen up a bit, blocking a couple of buttons that I’d have to manually scroll to find again (not their fault, the website version works great for my laptop and is probably intended that way, lol!). But now that I have the app, everything is exactly where I need it to be, no issues to speak of!
I’ve only been using the free version so far (which still gives you a TON of features to work with), but this is the first product that has made me seriously consider paying for the premium/plus version. And I am a very cheap person when it comes to apps, so that’s saying a LOT!
I’d recommend getting an Ellipsus account for any aspiring or veteran writer, and I can’t wait to see what they do next!
I typically write using my tablet, so when I was just using the website, there’d be shifting issues where pulling up the keyboard would push the screen up a bit, blocking a couple of buttons that I’d have to manually scroll to find again (not their fault, the website version works great for my laptop and is probably intended that way, lol!). But now that I have the app, everything is exactly where I need it to be, no issues to speak of!
I’ve only been using the free version so far (which still gives you a TON of features to work with), but this is the first product that has made me seriously consider paying for the premium/plus version. And I am a very cheap person when it comes to apps, so that’s saying a LOT!
I’d recommend getting an Ellipsus account for any aspiring or veteran writer, and I can’t wait to see what they do next!
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