Storyist App Reviews

Being able to work on a project on my desktop, then add thoughts while Im at the store, is fantastic! There is a bit of a learning curve. Details such as using Cmd-Enter to double space do take a bit to figure out. the documentation only covers broad explanations, not in depth example workflows. Overall I highly recommend it.

I started to use this app on my iPad, with the intention of giving it a tryout, and seeing if Storyist fit my mobile needs better than Scrivener, which has no iOS version available -- yet. I like this Storyist app. Unfortunately, I have since checked and discovered that there is no companion Windows version of Storyist, and insofar as I can tell -- no hurry to produce one. At least for me, this is a deal-breaker. Develop a Windows version, and I might give Storyist a second look. It does look like a great app/program......if a user is strictly Mac. ;)

This is a very powerful app, i love that everything i write is available on both my iPhone and iPad anytime i need it. It also has some powerful organization tools like index cards. Its my favorite writing app so far and i love how they keep updating it. Keep up the great work.

I like the app a lot. Its a good word processor. I like the word count feature and the index cards. The only problem I have encountered is that the app crashes when I try to insert a picture. Something that would be great is if you could get the word count for a selection of text.

The Mac Storyist is the best thing to ever happen to writing. This app? Totally laughable. Its supposed to sync via iCloud or Dropbox, but does neither automatically; you have to go in and reupload the file every time you edit it. And if you want to keep a hard copy on your computer that stays updated, dont even think about it. This app doesnt even save my character sheets. I cant remember how much I paid for this app, but I want it back. My advice to the developers would be to look at Apples Pages to see how integration can truly be done for text editing.

I moved to Storyist after getting tired of waiting for the fabled Scrivener iOS app. Best move ever; couldnt be happier. Are you tired of waiting? Well, you dont have to be. Join me. Its better over here.

This was a 5 star app, even with its few annoying flaws. Nothings perfect, but having just completed by first novel, on the previous version, I had been very happy with it. Not anymore! Fix the keyboard and the count thingy. And get your 5 stars back. Yes its that annoying. Oh and it would be nice to be able to export all the files in a story at once! The the option to start a chapter with a different number than 1 would make that particular functionality actually useful.

Used storyist two years ago for nanowrimo without a hitch. I do all the writing on my iPhone. This year, it has become unreliable. The final Straw is it wouldnt save to Dropbox. It thought my morning writings on my iPhone was from a different device and then it threw away my evening changes. So I lost over 1200 words. They also have a midges tire making it way too easy to accidentally delete scene notes. Theyve know about it for years, they wont do anything about it. Three strikes, storyist, your out.

Storyist is an excellent writing app. Its great as a stand alone, and a great companion to the Mac OS app. Great features, easy to use, and reliable. More full-featured than plain text writers, but still simple to use. Highly recommended.

This is quite the writing app. Makes writing feel more productive, and allows me to easily structure my stories. The best part of this app is that its universal, so the $15 was worth it. So far, there wasnt any bugs that I ran into, nor did I find any serious flaws with the app. Thats a plus.

I bought this because, like everyone, I want a scrivener mobile app that seamlessly syncs with the desktop version. This promised that, but does not deliver. The Dropbox implementation is horrid. Every time I open the app it tells me my Dropbox files were removed. If I wait, someones they come back. The interface is fine, but not what Ive come to expect having worked with scrivener. I particularly miss being able to simply tab between screenplay presets (character, to dialog, to parenthetical, etc.). I know those buttons are handy on the iPad, but theyre buried on the phone, and thats what I need a mobile solution for. Gave it a try for a couple of weeks and was thankful for the ability to export my work back to scrivener

I write as a hobby, and for years I have used Scrivener on my Mac to put together short stories. I have been waiting since 2014 for Scriveners "coming soon" mobile application, but I finally ran out of patience and decided to take Storyist for a spin. Starting fresh with a whole new story (not syncing existing projects with Scrivener), Storyist works great. It has all of the features I used most on Scrivener, and it is very capable of being a Scrivener replacement for me. I cant speak to how it does syncing with Scrivener (or anything else), but as a standalone tool, it is wonderful. I do most of my writing on my iPad these days anyway, which means Storyist has become my primary software for organizing my ongoing project. They say the best ability is availability, and I am glad I decided to give Storyist a try.

This app for ios--Storyist--is unusable on iOS. It strips out ALL the Fountain comment text AND returns in the text imported from my new MAC PRO. It also does not have password support AND cannot email an encrypted file. Documentation is extremely poor.

I am a recovering Scrivener addict, won over by Storyist. I bought the app initially to have an iPad editor for Scrivener. It works pretty well for that; you just have to keep your projects in iCloud. I dont have a problem with that ... Some do. The advantage is I didnt have to horse around with external folder syncs etc. I was actually working on the same file. I began to play with creating native Storyist files and was intrigued enough to check out the OS X version. Its great and has become my new preference. To get the full functionality of the software, youll have to use Storyist files. If you only want a Scrivener editor, it works great for that too. But youll miss out on all the great outlining functions it has to offer.

I have scrivener on my Mac, but dont want its complicated too-many-options set up. In addition, it is critical to have iPad and iPhone apps. Nothing comes close to this app. And help is received promptly. Great app!

I was hoping to replace Final Draft with this, but there are .FDX formatting issues that need to be resolved.

Sure, there are things that this software doesnt do. Its iOS, so of course there are. But it slaughters the competition for working with Scrivener files. I resisted iCloud, but I was fed up with a slow a Windows tablet not syncing properly on Scrivener shutdown with One Drive. Apple and PC, right? Writing in RTF on the iPad, arguing with all the formats, I was ready to give up on portable productivity in Scrivener short of a "real" laptop or touch screen computer and the associated expense. If you use Scrivener and own an iOS device, buy this software. Edit, write, move scenes around, get things done. Do the big things like compile on your desktop. Do something besides fight with your environment on the go. Fix a scene, drop in some great overheard dialogue while your car gets inspected. If you use Scrivener and are tired of waiting for vaporware, buy this program.

Ive only used it to do the final edit on an OpEd, and to write some notes for another, but so far so good. No negatives to date, and this is the most bug free text editor Ive used in the iOS world. I assume thats because it does a few things well, rather than trying to do everything, but Im still impressed that this seems to be the creation of a single individual. Bravo!