Don’t waste your money
I’d heard good things about the desktop version, so decided to try the app as I often write on the go. What a waste of $40.
It’s complicated, things that should be simple take multiple actions and it’s just not fun to use.
It’s complicated, things that should be simple take multiple actions and it’s just not fun to use.
Jjzhrueduu
Wonderful tool for writing.
Once you understand the flow this app is exceptional. The keyboard row is the best and I love that it can be customized. This to me is like an older model of cars when there were no fancy computers. It’s easy to navigate and you don’t need bells and whistles to create. This makes it easy to customize. Following the example above, if you want to change a radio in an older car you pop a new one in whereas with newer cars you have to face a whole network of logistics. Overall, it’s wonderful and it’s obvious it was made with great care and attention to detail.
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WWWonderful for Writers
No update for far too long again! 3 yrs!
I have been using Scrivener for many years, and throughout those years there have been minimal updates. It’s been frustrating. And now there is an issue where I try to search for a word in my project, or use find and replace, and the box shows for a millisecond and disappears again. So I currently can’t use the feature which is quite a big problem. And now I know that it’s going to be like that for a long time due to the history of non-existent updates! Also, still no sign of them using a different cloud storage. Probably the only app that doesn’t use apple cloud or google drive as a back up option. Limited to Dropbox, which I haven’t used for years! How is this still a thing in 2026? I really need to find an alternative to this, which is a real shame because if the company actually put some care into this, it’s a great app, and could be even better. Seems they don’t care at all. 3 years since the last update (for ios17!) is unacceptable from an app that wasn’t cheap.
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LLinseypop
Crashed and burned.
I love this app, I truly do, but they have zero technical support, when I reached out for a syncing issue between this and the Mac app I was given troubleshooting steps that didn’t simply just not work, they were the incorrect steps for what I was being told to do, and as for the underlying issue? “It’s Apple’s problem”—they’re not going to troubleshoot on their end or try to patch anything or actually investigate what’s wrong, they’re depending on Apple to somehow divine what the issue is for their system and to fix it in Apple’s next update. Guess what basically any OS system update DOESN’T do, guys…that’s right! Troubleshoot for special snowflake you. I was willing to stick it out for three months and see whether you were right on the offest of off chances, and I’ve run the OS updates, but surprise surprise nothing’s fixed, so now I have to go track down an alternative when I should’ve had THE last word processing app I’d ever need, paid in full and curated to how I work. Saying that I’m disappointed is such an understatement that it’d be comical if I was currently capable of anything but the disappointment.
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WWirewrappedlily
Great for writing on the go
This app is invaluable for writing on the go if you use Scrivener on your computer. I would love to see some updates, particularly for navigation inside documents. It drives me mad when I want to select a few words, and the selection expands from one word… two words… oops half way to the of the document!
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