ScrivoPro Scrivener Compatible Reviews

Stinks Don't waste your money!!!

Lizk99

I purchased this software the pro and the regular for my iPad and I could not get to the corkboard. Sent three or 4 emails to the "support" ha, ha. No response, still no response real waste of money don't bother.

Excellent writing app for writers! Syncs via iCloud too!

peterk55

At last my iPad Pro has a writing app that syncs seamlessly with desktop Scrivener on my Mac via iCloud! Keep up the good work! PS: Waiting for Multimarkdown support!

Great depending on your needs.

AstralSavage

I don't normally write reviews but I use Scrivo Pro quite a bit so bear with me. If a normal word processor serves you well enough then Scrivo may be a little more than you need but this app can do anything you would need a word processor to do. It's a bit of a learning curve but there's a way for it to do whatever you need. I write for research and study and having notes organized in-app was something I didn't think would help but has been enormous.

Not so good

ChrisKoniges

1. Does not open empty docs such as those used for planning what to write. 2. Does not pull across flags assigned in Scrivener. I noticed this just in 5 minutes. Has some interesting pluses but to find these glaring problems this fast is pretty bad.

Great Stuff

Waltzing Dorinda

I love the night writing mode. I recently downloaded the scrivener app and was disappointed that they didn't have that basic luxury. I'm sticking with Scrivo pro. But I'd really appreciate a compiler function. I want to print all my documents out at once, without a lot of pasting.

Depends on what you are wanting....

DavidInVegas

I have used Scrivener on my mac for a while now but after accepting a job traveling I was looking for a way to write on my iPad and have it sinc with the version on my Mac. If that is what you are looking for, this probably isn't your answer. I store everyone on my Mac in iCloud so I was able to import my latest story into the Scrivener iPad app, but the changes I have made on my iPad I haven't been able to get back to my Mac version. That really defeats the whole purpose. Mac Pages, Word, all since seamlessly. Why this doesn't is just frustrating. It makes both of these apps worthless if you need to be able to write on the go. Don't waste your money until they get it worked out.

Infuriating

Anonymous456789562246785465669

It worked well at first. Then a few things made me decide never to use it again: 1. It is impossible to reorganise folders. They keep becoming subfolders and it takes ages to get them back out. 2. Entire folders disappear for no good reason. Sync and everything is there. Open it again and several random folders are gone. 3. When recovering this mess of missing folders, words are not displayed in all files. In other words, it shows that the file contains words, but none are visible when opening it. I would not recommend using this software and will be switching to something else. It's just too risky and frustrating to keep losing time and work like this.

Extremely capable

serene and impatient

I'm very impressed how much you can work on your Scrivener projects. Scrivener now has their own iOS app, too.

Great for basic writing

Mountainbound%

I have been using various versions of Scrivo for writing a novel over the past two years and work in the app every day. It is much easier to customize screen background color & text color/size and offers much more flexibility in this respect than Scrivener which only allows for 3 background screens, none of which are dark enough for my taste. I find this makes a big difference in reducing eye strain, and hence do all of my drafts in Scrivo Pro. I have not had any problems losing documents, in either iCloud or Dropbox (manual sync) and generally like the Scrivo layout for storing documents and creating folders. It serves my purposes anyway. The only recurring issues are small bugs that never seem to go away. Most of then concern the stability of font size, line spacing, and line-break functionality, but they only pop up every now and then and I have found easy fixes for each (by closing and reopening the document or just resetting the style). Were it not for these, I would give it 5 stars because it does what none of the other apps seem to do as well: provide a distraction free writing environment for writing, as opposed to forcing you into markdown mode, with a wide array of screen and text colors to choose from. If you are looking for a simple, flexible app for writing, this might be for you.

Great app, some faults

Wells87

I love this app, so much so that I can overlook its faults. Once you get everything set up, you can sync Scrivener projects from desktop to phone to tablet - however the syncing process isn't completely user-friendly. Some aspects of the app should be simplified or come with detailed instructions within the app. However this is so handy and not too hard to use once you understand it, so I gave it 4 stars for that.

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