Scrivener

🇺🇸 United States
Literature & Latte Ltd  | 
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4.3
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5.26K
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App Age
9y 5m
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Last Update
Sep 29, 2023
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iAP
JPY120 - 980

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4.28
4.65
-8%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
5.2K
3.2M
-100%
App Age
9y 5m
7y 8m
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Price
$29
$0
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$0
$69
Update Frequency
808d
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28
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3 937
3 038
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Number of Screenshots
630
1325
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Size
27MB
284MB
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“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 ios.support@literatureandlatte.com, visit our forums at http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum, or find us @scrivenerapp on Twitter.}
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4.3
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Some Latest Reviews

ChunderHog
02 Dec, 2025
5
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.
ShinyMagikarth
02 Dec, 2025
2
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????Besutifuk garbage.
infty88
29 Nov, 2025
1
This app has been forgotten and not updated for 2 years. There has been no updates to take advantage of iOS 26.
seraqua
22 Nov, 2025
2
The paintbrush icon, when tapped, shows for a split second and then disappears, so appearance can no longer be customised.
YllisIV
21 Nov, 2025
2
L’application Scrivener sur iPad est excellente pour écrire et organiser un manuscrit, mais trop limitée pour une mise en page professionnelle. Même si chaque chapitre est dans un document séparé, il n’y a pas d’option pour forcer automatiquement un saut de page entre les chapitres lors de la compilation. Résultat : les fins de chapitres débordent sur les titres des chapitres suivants. Il faudrait ajouter une option simple pour insérer un saut de page lors de l’export, afin de préparer un fichier prêt à imprimer sans devoir passer par Word. De plus, l’outil « rechercher-remplacer » ne fonctionne plus.
kael.liot
20 Nov, 2025
1
I’ve been a Scrivener user for a very long time, back when the first round came out. Trust me when I say this app is practically unusable at this point. I can’t type, change fonts, open files. It’s very frustrating considering the price point. If you’re going to charge for this app, it NEEDS to be updated. Otherwise it’s practically robbery.
MMarco102
20 Nov, 2025
2
This is partly on me, but I was also misled. I’ve already written my first book, about 75,000 words, and I’ve struggled to get the format to paginate. Pages on iOS doesn’t do this on the iPad, which led me to this app. It’s advertised as the best iPad app for writing a book, “written for writers by writers,” so I assumed they knew what they were doing. I paid full price, being fully aware that many reviews mentioned a steep learning curve. That didn’t bother me, I’m very familiar with Apple devices. After two hours of YouTube Scrivener tutorials, most spending twenty minutes talking about themselves and another fifteen showing how to open the app and create a blank file(very painful to watch) I finally got impatient. I asked AI (which I probably should’ve done from the start) how pagination works in Scrivener, only to learn that Scrivener doesn’t do it at all. It’s really just a drafting tool, not something that helps with final formatting when you’re preparing to publish. Its strengths are in organization, not page layout. I’m not thrilled about leaving only two stars because part of this was my own misunderstanding. But that’s exactly why I’m writing this review, to spare a few others the same headache. The app is professionally built, and if you need help organizing all the thoughts and pieces that go into writing a book, it might serve you well. For me, though, it’s just another app I don’t need on my iPad and will forget the pain it caused me. When all is said and done the developer can enjoy a lunch on me.
Owel66
17 Nov, 2025
1
This app hasn’t been updated for two years and it shows.
Jus d'Orange
11 Nov, 2025
2
This app hasn’t bee updated in over 2 years. Is development of the iOS/iPadOS version dead?

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.31
Voted: 5.26K
App Store Link:
Price: 28.99 $
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: Productivity, Books
Size: 26MB
iAP: 120 - 980 JPY
App Age: 9 years 5 months
Release Date: Jul 20, 2016
Last Update: Sep 29, 2023
Version: 1.2.4
Version history
1.2.4
Sep 29, 2023
Scrivener 1.2.4 fixes a bug in 1.2.3 whereby creating a new card on the corkboard would cause a crash. 1.2.3 release notes: • Updated for iOS 17. • Fixed issue whereby you could tap outside of the new text/folder sheet to dismiss it, and thus accidentally lose a synopsis you were adding. • Fixed bug whereby “Split” didn’t work in the text when the selection was at the end. • Fixed bug whereby the “Style to” scriptwriting setting did not work. • Fixed bug whereby the “Style to” scriptwriting setting could cause a crash in some circumstances. • Fixed crash that could occur when setting certain fonts as the default, and in other circumstances related to font changes. • Fixed bug whereby the keyboard accessory bar on the iPhone might be cut off by phone features such as the home bar. • Fixed bug whereby the “Look Up” popover in the main text and notes would disappear immediately. • Fixed bug whereby if you tried to search for a font, the fonts popover would disappear. • Fixed bug whereby the share sheet would disappear when trying to share text from the main editor or notes. • Fixed bug whereby, in full screen mode, the top of the navigation bar could collapse after multitasking, resulting in controls being too close to the top of the screen. • Fixed bug whereby typing on an iPhone could disappear beneath the on-screen keyboard. • Fixed bug whereby typewriter scrolling on an iPad when using the on-screen keyboard could create too much empty space and result in the typing disappearing off the top of the view. • Fixed bug whereby the buttons in the keyboard accessory row may use light mode colours in dark mode. • Fixed bug whereby “Allow Negatives” in session targets would always be reset to off. • Fixed bug whereby temporarily setting the session target to 0 while changing the target could reset the current session count. • Fixed clipping of numbers in the target settings picker. • Fixed bug whereby, in dark mode, text in Compile’s Appearance editor would turn black and thus become unreadable on editing. • The Appearance “i” button in Compile now works with VoiceOver, making it possible to access the Appearance editor using VoiceOver.
1.2.3
Sep 20, 2023
• Updated for iOS 17. • Fixed issue whereby you could tap outside of the new text/folder sheet to dismiss it, and thus accidentally lose a synopsis you were adding. • Fixed bug whereby “Split” didn’t work in the text when the selection was at the end. • Fixed bug whereby the “Style to” scriptwriting setting did not work. • Fixed bug whereby the “Style to” scriptwriting setting could cause a crash in some circumstances. • Fixed crash that could occur when setting certain fonts as the default, and in other circumstances related to font changes. • Fixed bug whereby the keyboard accessory bar on the iPhone might be cut off by phone features such as the home bar. • Fixed bug whereby the “Look Up” popover in the main text and notes would disappear immediately. • Fixed bug whereby if you tried to search for a font, the fonts popover would disappear. • Fixed bug whereby the share sheet would disappear when trying to share text from the main editor or notes. • Fixed bug whereby, in full screen mode, the top of the navigation bar could collapse after multitaking, resulting in controls being too close to the top of the screen. • Fixed bug whereby typing on an iPhone could disappear beneath the on-screen keyboard. • Fixed bug whereby typewriter scrolling on an iPad when using the on-screen keyboard could create too much empty space and result in the typing disappearing off the top of the view. • Fixed bug whereby the buttons in the keyboard accessory row may use light mode colours in dark mode. • Fixed bug whereby “Allow Negatives” in session targets would always be reset to off. • Fixed bug whereby temporarily setting the session target to 0 while changing the target could reset the current session count. • Fixed clipping of numbers in the target settings picker. • Fixed bug whereby, in dark mode, text in Compile’s Appearance editor would turn black and thus become unreadable on editing. • The Appearance “i” button in Compile now works with VoiceOver, making it possible to access the Appearance editor using VoiceOver.
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