Ulysses Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience67.0% of reviews
Neutral7.0% of reviews
Negative experience26.0% of reviews

~ Based on 1,283 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Ulysses

Is Ulysses Safe?

Ulysses: Writing App appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Ulysses is 91/100.

This assessment is based on 2,149 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

89.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 2,145 App Store ratings for Ulysses.

Is Ulysses Legit?

Ulysses: Writing App appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Ulysses is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Pay to win

One star it wouldn’t let me write anything unless I paid

Lost me at “subscription”

Lost me years ago at “subscription”; why???

Ulysses is Great

It helps no matter what your writing and can make deep planning formats

Not Intuitive

This app is way too difficult to use. I spent an hour just looking up tutorials on how to change the background from black to white so that it doesn’t hurt my eyes to type on my iPhone. This app may have been good when it first came out, but now it’s so deep into its own user interface that I’m way behind the times for it and will never be able to use it. The fact that it’s more expensive than other apps is also a huge downside. It gets in the way of writing more than any other apps I’ve used. It’s a no from me.
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You’ve found your writing app!

I am literally clicks away from submitting first-ever manuscript to a publisher. Ulysses has carried me the whole way, for the past 14 months, and I cannot say enough good things. It just WORKS, so beautifully, and makes a very challenging huge Everest of work manageable. It’s fantastic, and makes me calm and happy when I open it. I could go on and on (stylesheets, exports, endnotes, versioning, backups: all so so good, flexible, and reliable) If you are wondering about something specific, I’m happy to reply. But - just download it. You’ll love it.
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Лучшее приложение для письма!

Пользуюсь Ulysses уже достаточно давно. Пока не нашёл ничего лучше. Не перегруженное, интуитивно понятное и прекрасно вписывающееся в экосистему Apple. О лучшем приложении для письма можно и не мечтать!

Hands down the best writing program I’ve ever used

I’ve gotten traditionally published and it’s all thanks to this app. I love how minimal and distraction free it is. It’s a bit confusing at first to learn but if you stick with it, it helps immensely!

Ulysses and Audiary App.

I use Ulysses daily and am delighted with both its ease of use and its robustness. On my ipad I open Ulysses and Audiary in split screen mode. i select a sheet from Ulysses, copy it, move to Audiary, select the + button top right and paste the sheet. save it then click it to listen.
My sheet is still open in Ulysses so I can follow along and make any edits I need.
I repeat the select and copy, posting my edited sheet to Audiary to listen again.
No data leaves my ipad via Audiary and there appears to be no size limits on how many words transferred.
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Extortionate Prices as Usual

Another greedy developer wanting extortionate amounts of money for a basic app. Annually or monthly, too’

I literally vibe coded a plugin for obsidian that does the same thing in less than an hour.

I love it

Incredible app!

Glorified note-taking app

Good god people. Is THIS what it’s come down to? Pay a subscription for apple notes/pages with what exactly?
Because I’m not seeing it.
I’ve tried it and I’m not seeing it… at all. For how highly this comes in ratings I’m assuming there’s something I’m missing or the ratings are manipulated and removed. There’s no other way.
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메모와 글자수가 동시에 노출됐으면 합니다

작업 시 메모와 글자수를 동시에 보고 싶어요. 편당 작업량이 중요한 작가에겐 글자수 체크와 메모 기능이 중요한데 메모를 보려면 글자수를 포기해야하고, 글자수를 실시간으로 확인하려하면 메모를 꺼야 합니다. 그래서 지금은 애플 메모장을 옆에 켜두고 쓰는데 이걸 동시에 보며 작업하고 싶어요. 맥북 뿐만 아니라 아이패드, 곧 출시될 아이폰 듀오 에서도 이런 기능이 적용되었으면 합니다. 그리고 본문 복사할 때 전체 텍스트가 선택되지 않고 일부만 됩니다. 여러 프로그램을 오가며 작업할 떄 불편합니다. 전체 선택이 잘 되었으면 합니다.

Such an awful app.

Doesn’t work just doesn’t.

This is the one!

Really simple to use, great organization options, reasonable price, not to mention a refreshing lack of AI slop.

Abandoned Old Version

I’d never pay for subscription based. I own their one-time purchase version; which they no longer update. Interesting how when they abandoned the version and moved on. Working with other options that are one-time purchase writing apps: Scrivener and Storyist. I could possibly live with paying for major updates (which there isn’t much to update), but paying yearly for it to mostly do the same thing. Hard pass!
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Great app!

Helps stay focused and has complex features

이러니 저러니해도 최고의 글쓰기 앱이다

글쓰기 도구 유목민이었는데 혹시 더 나은 앱이 없을까 하고 여기저기 기웃거리다가도 결국 여기로 돌아옵니다. 구독제도 ‘그래… 너정도 앱 만들면 걍 받아라.’ 라는 생각이 듭니다. 오로지 글쓰기에 집중할 수 있게 만든 앱입니다. 글쓰기에 필요한 최소한만 설정하고 남은 에너지를 글쓰기에 넣을 수 있게 해줍니다. 많이 버십쇼.

Response from developer

Thank you so much for your wonderful review and for supporting our work by subscribing to Ulysses. We love hearing that you keep coming back to us! Helping writers spend less energy on their tools and more on their writing is exactly what we aim for, so it’s especially rewarding to hear that Ulysses does that for you. Thank you for your trust, your support, and your kind wishes. —Team Ulysses

創作系最強

Markdown記法と統合されていること、描き出しの形式が豊富で、書き出しのウィンドウを開いたまま、本文を変数するとそれが即座に反映されること、そこからコピペができること などなど、大変使いやすい。創作系の文章を書くならこれが最強のツールだろう。
うらみは、豊富な機能を使いこなすのが難しいこと。もう少し懇切丁寧なチュートリアルがあれば完璧だと思う。

Response from developer

Thank you for your thoughtful review and for supporting our work by subscribing to Ulysses. We’re delighted you enjoy writing with Ulysses and appreciate its Markdown-based approach and export options. We understand that discovering all the features Ulysses offers can take time. You’ll find extensive guides explaining our features on our website at help.ulysses.app. And if you ever have a specific question or need help finding or using a feature, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our team at help@ulysses.app. We’re always happy to help. —Andrea

Simply excellent in many ways

I'm finding Ulysses to be a wonderfully powerful way of writing and saving - and rewriting and reorganising - a wide variety of old and new things that I've written and am now starting to organise and us. I gave it a 4 rather than a 5 only because it is complex and I did not find the basic help files clear enough for a new user. I've used Word and Excel litterally for decades, so I don't find the "simple" commands of formatting in Ulysses all that simple.
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Response from developer

Thank you for your thoughtful review and for supporting our work by subscribing to Ulysses. We’re glad to hear that Ulysses is helping you organize, revisit, and develop both old and new writing. We also appreciate your feedback about the learning curve. If you're coming from apps like Word, Ulysses’ markup-based approach to formatting can take some getting used to. Please know that you can always reach out to our team if you have any questions or need assistance. We're here for you at help@ulysses.app —Andrea

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