Scrivener

Scrivener

By Literature & Latte

  • Category: Productivity
  • Release Date: 2016-07-20
  • Current Version: 1.2.4
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 26.53 MB
  • Developer: Literature & Latte
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 12.0
Score: 4.24883
4.24883
From 2,359 Ratings

Description

“The biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.” —Michael Marshall Smith, bestselling author Typewriter. Ring-binder. Scrapbook. Scrivener combines all the writing tools you need to craft your first draft, from nascent notion to final full stop. Tailor-made for creating long manuscripts, Scrivener banishes page fright by allowing you to compose your text in any order, in sections as large or small as you like. Got a great idea but don’t know where it fits? Write when inspiration strikes and find its place later. Grow your manuscript organically, idea by idea. Whether you plan or plunge, Scrivener works your way: meticulously outline every last detail first, or hammer out a complete draft and restructure later. Or do a bit of both. All text sections in Scrivener are fully integrated with its outlining tools, so working with an overview of your manuscript is only ever a tap away, and turning Chapter Four into Chapter One is as simple as drag and drop. Need to refer to research? In Scrivener, your background material is always at hand. Write a description based on a photograph. Reference a video or PDF. Check for consistency with an earlier chapter. On the iPad, open two documents side-by-side; on the iPhone, flip between research and writing with just two taps. Once you’re ready to share your work with the world, simply compile everything into a single document for printing, or export to popular formats such as Word, PDF, Final Draft or plain text. You can even share using different formatting, so that you can write in your favorite font and still keep your editor happy. FEATURES Get Started • Interactive tutorial project • Keep each manuscript and supporting materials in a self-contained project • Import Word, RTF, Final Draft and plain text files • Easily split imported text into separate sections Get Writing • Write your manuscript in sections of any size • View all sections as a single text using the “Draft Navigator” (iPad only) • Quickly navigate sections using the “binder” sidebar • Format with fonts and presets • Comments, footnotes, links and highlights • Simple bullets and lists • Insert images • Pinch-zoom to resize text • Full-screen mode (iPad only) • Typewriter scrolling mode keeps typed text center-screen (iPad only) • Write a screenplay using scriptwriting mode • Live word and character counts • Set word and character count targets • Find and replace • Customizable keyboard row provides quick-access buttons for formatting, navigation and punctuation • Comprehensive keyboard shortcuts for external keyboard users • Dark mode Find Your Structure • Write in any order and reorganize later • Write a synopsis for any text section and see it in the outline • Expand, collapse and drill down into sections of your project • Rearrange sections as index cards on the corkboard (iPad only) • Project-wide search • Track ideas using labels and status • Apply custom icons to your sections Refer to Research • Import research material such as image, PDF and media files • View research files or other sections right alongside your writing (iPad only) • Every section has its own notes area for jotting down ideas • Supports multitasking split screen mode (supported devices only) Share Your Work • Compile to a single document for sharing or printing • Use different formatting in your exported or printed document • Export to Word, RTF, Final Draft, PDF or plain text • Convert rich text to Markdown for sharing with Markdown apps • Create and email zipped backups of your projects Work Anywhere • Use Dropbox to sync between devices and with the macOS and Windows versions of Scrivener* • Copy projects between devices via iTunes * Requires a Dropbox account (not compatible with iCloud). SUPPORT You can contact us at [email protected], visit our forums at http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum, or find us @scrivenerapp on Twitter.

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Reviews

  • Great Workflow / Still has issues

    5
    By Break-Point
    Paired with the desktop app, Scrivener is my favorite writing tool. I just had an issue with having to create a fresh mobile projects for Dropbox if I wanted to import back and forth from the PC, then some formatting bugs like a bunch of bullet points being duplicated when switching between mobile and desktop.
  • This app fails at the one thing it is advertised for.

    1
    By TheGateofBabylon
    In short, while scriptwriting, there are certain names that will cause the app to freeze and crash with zero warning. If it’s an important name that will come up a lot, this instantly kneecaps your ability to write anything in the script format. Consider my entire project document is over half-a-hundred thousand words in the script format, I don’t have the option or want to either painstakingly switch everything to the novel format, or rename my characters because this app can’t handle simple names in the character header without having a panic attack and freezing up. This is an unforgivingly important issue to leave up in the air as Scrivener has so far and destroys any idea of this app being used by even intense hobbyists. You will unironically get more mileage out of Apple Notes, because at least it fulfills the one function it was meant to—writing. The fact that an app like Scrivener has issues this easy to catch and destructive blows my mind to pieces. For a Mac app that is basically perfect, the iPad version is a disgrace to the name of Scrivener. It. Does not. Let you. Write.
  • Decent but not the same….

    3
    By GameEnthusiast123
    It’s nice to have scrivener available on iPad and iPhone, but I was super disappointed that my favorite feature doesn’t appear to be available. I recently purchased an iPad to make writing on the go more easy and less overwhelming than when I am lugging around my MacBook. Apparently the “focus” option with the typewriter isn’t available in the iPad app (unless I am missing it somehow?). I have ADHD and this feature is game-changing for me. It’s similar to those little one-line-at-a-time-readers they gave to us neurodivergent kids in school. Keeping this feature across platforms would make it much more accessible to those of us who struggle to write with distractions. Please, please, please consider developing it for us iPad users….!
  • Invaluable

    5
    By Gambit1591
    Helps support my writing career. So so much better than working off Word or any other app. I love it.
  • So much to love and to hate

    2
    By Verdulo
    I want to use Scrivener very much. I’ve put hours of endless troubleshooting into setting up Dropbox to sync between my Mac, iPad and iPhone and absolutely cannot get it to sync no matter what I try. For background, I’m a web developer and I’m extremely familiar with networking issues, ports, firewalls, etc. I can troubleshoot complicated CDN issues but getting Scrivener to sync with Dropbox is beyond me. While I’m a big fan of Scrivener’s software, despite the fact it’s become very dated due to it’s 6+ year absence of a major update, I STILL want to use it but it needs to actually work, it doesn’t. So if you think you’re going to simply buy this and it will somehow magically work with your desktop version of Scrivener you may be in for a surprise. I’ve given up and will wait for the vaporous version 4 which will hopefully include iCloud sync or even better, WIFI sync. In the meantime, I may get hooked on something else and never come back.
  • The only way I can ever make myself write to a concerning degree

    5
    By thisnicknameistaken_alex
    Forgive my grammar and formatting and stuff I cannot be bothered right now I am sleepy My main complaint: I want to change my background color! I want a baby pink page :( also the ability to shrink pictures, move them around, ect. But mainly I want a baby pink background. Oooh and thumbnails to the stories:))) I got this app as a birthday present, and it is the only way I can make myself write. I can’t write on a google doc, I can’t write on a pink google doc littered with pretty pictures with a pretty bright pink font and baby sensory videos right next to my tab. Nope. I can only write if it is on scrivener. I don’t understand why. In my head, Google docs should work much better. It’s much easier and better to work with. With scrivener, I started and finished a 15,000 word chapter story draft in a little over a month. I had a deadline for a birthday, and I did it. I did edit it on Google docs, but it was completely exhausting. Maybe it would’ve been different on scrivener. This app is the only thing that makes me write to a worrying degree. My therapist thought I couldn’t write anything because I was so unmotivated by my depression that it was making me completely unproductive. Nope! Scrivener. Surrounding myself in pink, cute things, plushies, music, bribing myself with food, it didn’t do a THING. The only thing that makes me write is this damned app. I haven’t been able to type a single word onto a Google Doc, let alone open the app in ages. It’s been weeks and all I can do is sulk at how lazy I am and complain to my therapists and argue no, I can be depressed AND lazy. But I open scrivener for for the first time in a while, and I write over 1,000 words with very little difficulty. It’s like magic. It’s like god is apologizing for wronging me and gifting me this app right on top of a stack of velvet pillows as the cure to my woes. I’m going to take a shower and then I’m going to write more. Add baby pink backgrounds, and then I will love you even more, Scrivener <3
  • Very Bare Bones

    1
    By PugslyPuppy
    It turns out that I have to pay another $5.00 for another app, Scrivio Pro, to get any useful features and to top it off, the apps won’t even sync my file so I get to copy and paste everything over.
  • Confusing back up system

    2
    By gkreader
    As much as I enjoyed this as a writing tool, it has tortured me in lost content and would not recommend it to anyone. I have lost hundreds of pages now of writing representing thousands of hours of work. I can see all these files in faint gray but cannot find anyway to open any of them. Addendum: customer support was helpful in that they helped me retrieve my files. I was using Dropbox as recommended and they suggested that the issues were on that end. That may be true but now I’m too nervous to go through this again and will just go back to old reliable Pages with ICloud back up. I honestly enjoy writing on Scrivener better with the organization tools they offer, but, still, not worth it.
  • Helpful writing app

    4
    By A Miszczak
    I was recommended this app when I decided to put together my first book and its been a total life saver. Easy to use and understand the system which was great because I was worried about learning a whole new system just to be able to collect my writings. I do wish that when you purchase on a ipad that it would be able to come up on the iMac like say goodnotes does. The double app purchasing is what has kept me on the ipad version only. Beyond that I adore this program and am so thankful for it because I can write when creativity strikes without losing my place and I can mix and match sections when I have a ideas that dont fit just yet.
  • So helpful

    5
    By Elyk
    Use it every day

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