Scrivener

Overall a great app, even though not updated in two years. The problem (Mr. Developer) is that when you try to highlight text the color picker immediately dismisses and returns to edit mode. The text cannot actually be highlighted. I’m sure there are other small issues like this that are a result of changes in the OS over time. That’s why regular updates are important ;)

Scrivener on iPad is wonderful and easy to use, until you try to sync to iCloud (you can only do so with Dropbox, which I don’t use and don’t want to pay for!). It’s fantastic until you want to create a PDF of your work, and you can’t, so you have to copy/paste your entire manuscript into Pages, or Word, or whatever. Remind me what the purpose of a writing app is if you’re at risk of losing all your work at any moment, and you cant do anything meaningful with your work once it’s done????Besutifu

I have tried many ways to write on my phone. Word, notes, etc. scrivener is the best I have found, and then when combined with Dropbox I can use desktop scrivener for editing. Keep up the good work! One very nice potential feature to add would be the ability to do word counts within all the documents within a folder.

Thanks for wasting $23 of mine. No different than iPhone notes. Terrible app. Horrible developers. Garbage.

I love Scrivener. But when the app first appeared Dropbox was the leader in cloud storage, but since then usage has fallen off and Apple’s iCloud has made huge improvements and become the default for Apple users. It would be so much more useful if the iOS version of Scrivener update to allow us to use it to sync with our Macs and other iOS device and to not be stuck in 2012 with Dropbox only.