Comments on: Creating Ulysses Mobile

By: Silus Grok

Silus Grok — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:47:46 +0000

I’d be happy to just have a viewer on the iPhone. I write at my desk or, occasionally on an iPad … but sometimes I just want to muse on what I’m writing — or to show it to a colleague. So I’d kill for an iPhone app that read and displayed my Ulysses project files.

If you wanted to add a function to do voice annotations, that’d be awesome. But I can’t even imagine writing on my iPhone.

By: don johnson

don johnson — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:14:58 +0000

Anxiously waiting for the app to appear. I do hope you continue to strive for the iPhone / iPod touch mobile version.

By: Flex

Flex — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:09:39 +0000

Aw man, this is a tragedy.

By: max

max — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:33:07 +0000

Well… The problem is that our current implementation as we shipped in the Beta in November uses private API, with absolutely no way around it. And as you may know this is a blocker. Either Apple will have to lessen this constraint or release a more powerful legal API that we might use instead…

By: Flex

Flex — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:19:27 +0000

Wait, what? It’s not clear if you will make the iPhone version?

By: max

max — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:34:28 +0000

The iPhone version will probably run on the iPad as well. But it’s not yet clear whether we will make it on the iPhone. If we do, we’ll probably do a special iPad version as well…

By: Crystal

Crystal — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:17:59 +0000

Hi, will I be able to run Ulysses on the new iPad? Thanks

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:43:07 +0000

The syncing is very problematic. There’s just too much going on in the desktop version. We had to make some rather tough decisions here, and some users will (most likely) disagree with the choices we made.

But at the end it all boils down to reason: “Is this possible yes/no, does it make sense yes/no, will people use it yes/no, how many and how often?”

I believe that what we’ll release will be a good compromise and good use for most people.

BTW: I just checked out the third-party Scrivener app you mentioned, but as far as I can tell from the mockups, it’s (no offense) exactly what we were (and still are) NOT going for. It sure looks like a great technical achievement, but our approach is vastly different. This only *starts* at not implementing a color picker…

By: femalebrains

femalebrains — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:15:07 +0000

So, bring it on!

I don´t care so much for design, functionality is most important.

USB/wifi sync with the desktop app is a must.

Actually, I do not care at all for the “non-WYSIWYG”-way of Ulysses, it is hard for me to use, but to being able to sync all my stuff easily with my iPhone would make it worth the effort for me getting used to Ulysses ;-)

Currently, it is a pain in the *** to be in sync, either the apps lack desktop counterparts with painless file management (e.g. Notebooks, DTG) or they do not have landscape mode (like Bento) or totally lack functionallity (like Wrightroom). There will be something 3rd party out for Scrivener soon, but without any sync. Great if you could get it working soon.