If you’ve been waiting for Scrivener to hit the iPad and iPhone, there’s finally light at the end of the tunnel. Literature and Latte, the popular writing app’s developer, has announced that Scrivener for iOS is now feature complete and has entered a closed beta. The initial version of the iOS version will use Dropbox to sync with the Mac and Windows versions. A summer release has been targeted.
I’ve found Scrivener on the Mac to be quite handy for legal writing. I can organize research within the app, and break down my document into sections that I can easily rearrange. The grand plan, of course, is to use the app to write a novel some day.
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chrameslyris says:
A) This is great, I want this so much.
B) Read On Writing by Stephen King. Whatever your thoughts on the man, it’s the best book about writing. Just start, you’ll pick up the rest as you go.
May 2, 2015 — 9:48 pm
ZoeTV says:
It’s an extraordinarily ordinary book on writing. Every single thing it says can be found in dozens of previous books on writing written by others.
October 19, 2015 — 9:58 am
Donna says:
Yeah! Right!
June 4, 2015 — 3:10 pm
Colin Gunn says:
And yet, 3 months later, we still haven’t seen anything!!
June 5, 2015 — 9:48 am
ninjaturkey says:
I´m going for tent camping in about four weeks. Do i have any chance to get the app for my iPad Air 2 before? Please!
June 23, 2015 — 6:09 am
Evan Kline says:
Here is the thread I’ve been following in the Scrivener forums:
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=29755&hilit=ios
Last word I heard there, from a couple of weeks ago, was that the internal beta had more bugs than they had anticipated, and that they were bringing in a second developer to help squash them (it has been a single developer project, to the best of my knowledge).
June 23, 2015 — 12:22 pm
DenVog says:
Index Card 4 – corkboard writer for iPad was released today. It can now export Scrivener .scriv files, in addition to the previous ability to sync .indexcard files with Scrivener. Full disclosure, I’m the developer of Index Card. http://www.IndexCardApp.com
June 29, 2015 — 5:36 pm
Evan Kline says:
Thanks for the update. I do own the previous version, so I’ll be checking it out for sure.
June 29, 2015 — 10:15 pm
aster says:
I just lost a lot of work through improper syncing back from IndexCard. I thought the reason Scrivener made a separate Collection for your sync’d cards was so that you could have control over the information going back to your Scrivener file. Since it doesn’t check which items have been updated, you get some of the older cards back erasing newer ones in Scrivener. Please get your IOS version together. This isn’t really workable.
July 11, 2015 — 6:34 pm
aster says:
btw I do love Index Card, as its own thing. Didn’t want to come across as critical. Love Scrivener too, but I may have to find some other kind of more mobile solution. MUST be able to integrate ideas on the go, short of, in effect, copying them down in a notebook to type in later.
July 11, 2015 — 6:58 pm
rickla says:
Sounds like you need Ulysses.
October 22, 2015 — 8:50 am
silly function says:
Well, sounds like we wouldn’t get iOS version at all.
December 15, 2015 — 11:02 pm
tbaucellswp says:
Ulysses is unworkable. It is incapable of parsing HTML tags in an MD-formatted text file correctly, which leads to the preview being totally cock-eyed. You have to tell it that it’s HTML with special tags and even then it’s hit and miss.
I am sorely regretting having bought Ulysses for iOS.
March 14, 2016 — 12:41 pm
Nicolas says:
Desperate to wait for Scrivener for iOS, I gave Ulysses a try.
Nice sync across devices… but much more limited than Scrivener (I miss the cork board or the possibility of viewing PDF and other research files next to my editing pane). And why those damned Markdown tags? It makes the writing/editing clumsy…
I was thrilled to hear that Scrivener for iOS is finally going public (beta testing).
DevonThink to Go is also going into beta test, with new features that may finally end the era of using it alongside Evernote. DevonThink may become my only database.
With Scrivener AND DevonThink finally going through a major upgrade, my writer’s life can become much smoother and better organized!
April 11, 2016 — 4:11 am