Storyist for Mac

Version 4 is out! For both macOS and iOS.

This is my favorite of the story writing apps so far, although I haven't much experience with it just yet. I'm still using the trial, but like it so far. I'm hoping it goes on sale/discount again, maybe for the NaNoWriMo 2011 this November.

My dilema, upgrade to Scrivener 2 or buy Storyist? I've owned Scrivener for three and a half years, but after briefly testing Scrivener 2, I decided to purchase Storyist. Why? Storyist: I liked the icon, the program name, the website, the manual, the videos, hey, I even liked the developer's voice, but the preceding list certainly wasn't why I purchased Storyist. Sure, it's a cocoa app, and 64 bit, but frankly, both programs are carefully crafted and share remarkably similar features. I purchased Storyist because of the almost inexplicable joy that you experience when you sit down and use very thoughtfully engineered software. Bluntly, using Storyist pushed my 'happy' button. It's cliché to call software elegant, but Storyist is ELEGANT. If you have a story to tell...

I tried several of these novel writing apps during my annual stab at writing a novel in the (Inter)NationalNovelWritingMonth: started with Ulysses (which I find too focused on text-only, and not intuitive to my brain), moved on to Scrivener (absolutely great), StoryMill (like the concept, but cannot get the hang of it), and since last year Storyist. Fort apps like these, personal taste is more important than any other, imo, and amazingly If found that the touch of extra structure and discipline Storyist imposes on my writing works like a charm. It is full featured, and for now my winner, by a nose length, over Scrivener, which is quite a feat in itself. Of course, the next Scrivener which is just around the corner might change all that again. What a blessed platform the Mac is!

Extremely efficient and cordial Support team. The little bug concerning .docx import was found and will be corrected in the coming version. It happens only to .docx files whose type (.docx) is not displayed in the Finder. Meanwhile, if necessary, it suffices adding .docx to the names of the files to import. For the other issues, it is just a matter of getting used to Storyist. This app is quite versatile but it takes some (well deserved) training to become freer than without Storyist. 5 stars.