Massive Update to the Ulysses App

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I thought there may be those in the forum who would be interested in this update to the Ulysses app.

This is a massive update. It’s still the same app, just… better and even more beautiful than before.

Liquid Glass

  • This version fully embraces Liquid Glass. We updated the app across the board, including but not limited to:
  • The library, dashboard, Quick Open, toolbars, buttons, popovers for images, links, annotations, etc. etc.
  • You can finally resize the dashboard (Mac and iPad).
  • You can finally have sheet list AND dashboard open (iPad).
  • The editor now has a large bottom inset (aka Overscroll), so the transitions from reading to editing and back are much smoother, especially when using the onscreen keyboard.
  • You can now create new sheets from the Library (iPhone); these will either end up in your main Inbox or in “Project › Extras › Pending”.
  • The iPhone on-screen keyboard gained a very prominent close button.
  • We even updated the app icon to match the new look.

Menus macOS

  • We reworked both the main menu and many context menus.
  • Typewriter Mode is gone; you can now just activate the line marker or fixed scrolling or… leave it off.
  • The Markup Bar is now either on or off (no more “automatic”).
  • You can now auto-hide the toolbar in full screen.
  • You can now select themes from the View menu.
  • Markup menus for paragraph and text are now available via the editor context menu (yay!).

Revision Mode is just another tab macOS

  • We moved our advanced text check (aka Revision Mode) into the main dashboard.
  • You now simply activate the tab to initiate a check.
  • The check will continue if you switch to another sheet.
  • To end the check, just deselect the tab.

Editor Focus is now “Hide Interface”

  • Hit CMD-. to get an editor-only view.
  • Hit CMD-. again to show the rest of the interface.
  • You’ll love this.

Swipe Gestures macOS

  • Gestures now need to happen over the editor, otherwise they won’t work.
  • Gestures are side-aware; swipe at the right side to show/hide the dashboard, for example.

Swipe Actions iOS

  • We added swipe actions to both the library and the sheet list.
  • A primary action specific to the current group or filter (such as “Reveal in Group”)
  • A full contextual menu as secondary action.

Improved keyboard navigation

  • We completely reworked keyboard navigation. Use…
    • left/right arrows to switch between panes
    • up/down to select groups and sheets
    • Return to begin editing
    • CMD-Return to end editing
    • (There’s more, but you’ll figure it out.)

Share/import projects

  • You can now share whole projects as a zipped archive.
  • On Mac, Just drag a project to the Finder.
  • To import a project, just drag it to your library.
  • On iOS, open it via the Files app (or via AirDrop, which is kind of cool).
  • This is a big deal, don’t sleep on it.

Copy for Substack and Basecamp

  • You can now copy your texts for use on Substack and Basecamp.
  • Most formatting is supported; some limitations apply (images won’t work).
  • On Substack, we even support buttons (via raw source) and Spotify previews (via text links).

Theming

  • We have added two options for editor themes.
  • Quotes can have a large font size.
  • Some outlines can be hidden.
  • This resulted in TWO new default themes.
    • D26 builds on the system palette and utilizes the new styling options.
    • D26 Mono is a toned-down version for monospaced fonts.

App Intents

  • We revamped our integration with Spotlight and the Shortcuts app. On macOS 26, actions can now be triggered directly from Spotlight. New actions include:
  • “Find Sheet” and “Find Group”, with configurable filters.
  • “Import File”, to convert any given text file into a sheet.
  • “Search in Ulysses”, to open the in-app search with a pre-defined search term.

Other improvements

  • Quick Open finds sheets and groups from archived projects.
  • Quick Open respects the current appearance.
  • Syntax highlight for Swift code snippets.
  • New color for group icons and keywords: brown.
  • Reworked the line width setting for iPad, allowing for a narrower text width in the editor.
  • Search finds sheets and groups from archived projects.

Bugfixes

  • Uploading images to WordPress for weird filenames.
  • A rare case of missing footnotes in PDF export.
  • Isues with copy & paste of code snippets.
  • Some rendering issues for equations.
  • The issue where the library trash would show trashed sheets from archived projects.
  • The insertion of PDFs via the Shortcuts app.
  • A bug where scroll bars would overlap the text of a footnote or annotation. macOS
  • A crash in the share extension in certain library configurations. macOS
  • A crash when quickly deleting image attachments. macOS
  • A bug where the markup bar would insist to show up. macOS
  • A crash with searching & replacing. macOS
  • A crash with search in the sheet list. macOS
  • The wrong mouse cursors when hovering over the editor. macOS
  • The issue where you could copy, but not paste, text as rich text into other apps such as Pages. iOS
  • A crash that occurred when rotating a Plus- or Max-sized iPhone into landscape. iOS
  • Ulysses launching into a blank screen when triggering the “Create Sheet” action (e.g. via Widgets or Control Center) iOS
  • A bug where some app settings would be reset on launch.
  • Puuuuuuuuuuuh…
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Thanks for sharing. I’ll check it out!

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