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Wretify vs Ulysses
Wretify is a clean, minimalist writing app for nonfiction writers, built for focus — with an AI that has read everything you've written and refuses to write it for you.
What is the difference between Wretify and Ulysses?
Ulysses is a writing app for Mac, iPad and iPhone with a clean, markup-based editor that keeps all your texts in one library and syncs them through iCloud.
Wretify is a clean, minimalist writing app for nonfiction writers, built for focus — with an AI that has read everything you've written and refuses to write it for you.
Ulysses is a beautiful editor for Apple devices. Wretify runs in the browser on any computer or phone, and its AI is the difference: it has read everything you have written, brings you your own earlier passages and real research, and never drafts your chapter. Citations in Wretify come from real papers and build the reference list for you.
What is Ulysses best at?
Ulysses is a calm, focused editor with a single library that syncs smoothly across Apple devices. It has writing goals and progress tracking, polished export styles, a grammar and style check in more than 20 languages, and it publishes straight to WordPress, Ghost, Micro.blog and Medium.
Writers who work entirely on Apple devices — bloggers, journalists, essayists and authors who want one quiet place for all their texts.
Wretify and Ulysses, side by side
| Wretify | Ulysses | |
|---|---|---|
| Made for | Nonfiction books and articles. | All kinds of writing, from blog posts to books. |
| Devices | In the web browser, on a computer or a phone. Nothing to install. | Mac, iPad and iPhone. |
| Price | One plan with every feature: $7 a month or $45 a year. The first 1,000 writers get 3 months free. Opens October 27, 2026. | Subscription: $5.99 a month or $39.99 a year, covering all your Apple devices, with a free trial. |
| Where your writing lives | Plain Markdown files in a Wretify folder in your own Google Drive. Wretify keeps no other copy. | The Ulysses library, synced by iCloud. You can also add outside folders of Markdown files, such as Dropbox. |
| AI | Bring your own key (Claude, Gemini or DeepSeek). The AI reads everything you have written, thinks with you and brings you real research and your own earlier passages. It does not draft your chapters; nothing reaches the page unless you press Replace or Insert, or drag it there. | Uses Apple Intelligence Writing Tools (proofread, rewrite, summarise) from the operating system; your texts stay on your device unless you choose to send them. |
| Footnotes and citations | Footnotes inside the sentence they support. Each chapter builds its own References list (APA 7) from them. Sources come from 250 million real papers (OpenAlex), never invented. | Footnotes, numbered automatically on export. |
| Export | A chapter as Markdown, Word or PDF; a whole book as Markdown, Word or EPUB, with a bibliography. | Word (DOCX), PDF, ePub, HTML, plain text and Markdown, plus publishing to blogs. |
Should I choose Wretify or Ulysses?
Choose Ulysses if you live on Mac, iPad and iPhone and want a polished, calm editor with blog publishing built in.
Choose Wretify if you write nonfiction, use Windows or Android as well as (or instead of) Apple devices, and want an AI that knows your own writing plus citations from real research.
How does Wretify compare to other writing apps?
Every major writing app is good at something different. The full guide answers what the best software for writing books is, app by app.
Sources
- Ulysses — ulysses.app/
- Ulysses pricing — ulysses.app/pricing/
- Ulysses subscription options — help.ulysses.app/en_US/subscription-synchronization/subscription-options-
- Ulysses external folders — help.ulysses.app/external-folders
- Ulysses and Apple Writing Tools — help.ulysses.app/writing-tools
- Ulysses footnotes — blog.ulysses.app/ipad-footnotes/
- Ulysses export — help.ulysses.app/export
Updated . Prices and features of other apps are taken from their own websites on that date and can change. Wretify is our product, so we have tried hard to be fair to the others. If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will correct it.