Background

With the latest version, we overhauled an existing Ulysses feature that could cause glitches in practice: the writing session history. Götz, the developer in charge of this feature, gives his insight into the problem’s origins, the chosen approach to solving it and the process of implementation.

2020 was a year unlike any other. In terms of physical events, it will be remembered for all the things that didn’t happen. Usually, we send selected developers to California to Apple’ …

Ten years ago, the first iPad came to the stores, adding a new dimension to the technological revolution that started with the iPhone. The iPad had a crucial influence on Ulysses' development. Co-founder Max takes a look back.

2020 is already a couple of weeks old – but not so old that we can’t take the opportunity to look back and reflect on what happened in 2019 and what we achieved with Ulysses.

In Short: Don’t Install iOS 13, iPadOS, or macOS Catalina During the last couple of weeks, quite a few people contacted us about crashes, hangs and other problems with Ulysses on devices …

At WWDC, Apple announced new versions of their operating systems: iOS 13, macOS Catalina, and (to some surprise) iPadOS. While macOS Catalina will be rather straight-forward in terms of support, the mobile/touch …

It’s the same procedure as every year: In June, some members of Ulysses’ development team travel to the US in order to attend Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference. But what is …

Ulysses is turning 15 these days. You read that right: fifteen freaking years. In computer terms that’s an eternity. And for me, now 31 years old, it certainly feels like one. This is my story.

If you’ve been following along the past few months of Ulysses updates, you may have realized a serious shift in gears: We are now releasing a much more constant stream of updates, …

Today, we are switching Ulysses to a subscription model. The short story is this (tl;dr): Our users expect a continuously evolving high quality product — and subscription is the only way we can …

Ulysses co-founder Max Seelemann has been a developer for Apple platforms for his entire professional life – and a participant of Apple’s World Wide Developers conference for almost as long. Here he explains …

Albeit 2016 was not exactly everybody’s darling of years, it has been a very special and successful year for Ulysses and for us — maybe even the most exciting year in our company’ …

What’s new in Ulysses 2.6? In a series of blog posts, we’ll closely look at each of its new features and examine how they can help writers to get their …

Ulysses 2.5 has been our greatest release so far, a really big thing for all of us. And even if we have never ever felt so confident with what we did, we …

If you have been using and liking (or even loving) Ulysses for some time, it may be no surprise for you that others do the same. But since we’re so pleased of …

A couple of weeks ago we’ve moved to a brand new office here in Leipzig. And you know what? There are some desks still to be taken! The last months were amazing …