Slant community chat on Discourse| 13 Recommended Products | Recommendations | Platforms | License | Export |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 Ulysses· · · | 3 | 0 | MacOS, iOS | Proprietary | Plain text, Rich text, Markdown, HTML, ePub, PDF |
| #2 iA Writer· · · | 2 | 0 | MacOS, iOS, Android | Proprietary | HTML, PDF |
| #3 Scapple· · · | 1 | 0 | – | – | – |
| #4 FocusWriter· · · | 1 | 0 | – | – | – |
| #5 Marked 2· · · | 0 | 0 | – | – | – |
| #6 Final Draft· · · | 0 | 0 | – | – | – |
Pro Great tools for organizing and finding files
Ulysses saves everything in the app so there's no file management outside of the editor involved. It organizes content in groups (folders) and sheets (files), has a powerful, easy to use search and allows adding keywords to attachments to help them be organized and found quickly. Groups can h...
Pro Polished UI
Ulysses has a clean, unobtrusive, easy to overview interface that allows focusing on writing. By default it's split up in 3 panes with sidebar, sheet pane and content pane from left to right. Unnecessary panes can be hidden.
Pro Has a trial
The trial is a 10 hour demo, which allows users to check out the software in order to see if they like it or not.
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Pro Has a mode that helps you focus only on the sentence that you're working
Enabling Focus Mode will dim the whole text except the sentence you are currently writing on.
Pro Has a great distraction-free writing mode
iA Writer offers a noise-free writing experience that removes even the program bar.
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Pro Has trial
30 days of actual use, not the typical 30 days from install date.
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Pro Can save as ODT, RTF, DOCX and TXT
In addition to Text Open Document (ODT), FocusWriter allow to save as Office Open XML (docx), Righ Text Format (RTF) and text file (TXT).
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Pro Recognized as industry standard
The same way Microsoft .doc docx formats are ubiquitous in everyday document publishing, the Final Draft .fdx format is expected in the film industry.
Pro Educational discount for students and educators
Price is $129.99 for students and educators, that's almost half off the regular price. http://store.finaldraft.com/final-draft-9-edu.html/
Con iOS apps should be free
With the price tag on this package I would expect the pro version of the mobile apps to be free. (They do have a limited free iOS app). As of this writing May 9th 2016 the pro app has been marked down from $29.99 to $9.99.
Pro Offers free trial
The trial is good for 30 days of actual use, not the typical 30 days from install date.
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Pro Cross Platform
Available for Mac Windows and Linux, and has separate Fade in Mobile app available for iOS (IPhone iPads) and Android.
Pro Open Format
Documents produced are in Open Screen Format (XML) so you don't get locked in, and documents can play nice with other software.
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Pro Set your own price
Minimum price is $5.11 through the developer's website, customers are welcome to pay more. On the Apple Store it's a set $5.99.
Pro Offers free trial
A 15 day trial is available for those that would like to see how the software works.
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