Test 3 Extras

On top of the basics, what’s on offer?

Word’s integration with the rest of the Office suite, and its ability to play nicely with the Windows versions of the application are a boon for many users. And iA Writer’s colour coding of verbs, adverbs, nouns, adjectives and conjunctions, makes them easy to spot and, if necessary, tweak. Byword will publish directly to Medium and Wordpress at no extra cost, which is great for bloggers. And Bear Pro’s support for several markup languages is brilliant for coding. If you write books for distribution on an electronic reader, Ulysses support for ePub export will be very welcome. And if you work with colleagues who use Word, they’ll appreciate your ability to create docx files in Ulysses

Scrivener’s templates for scripts, novels, short stories and other formats have the edge here. They’ve helped make Scrivener the writing tool of choice for many novelists and screenwriters.