I write for a living and this is the only Mac and iOS app I’ll use in 2026

This is part of a regular series of articles exploring the apps that we couldn't live without. Read them all here.

If you're a writer of any kind – a blogger, a copywriter, an aspiring novelist or any other kind of word wrangler – you'll know how important your writing tools can be. In the analogue world I'll only write seriously with a really nice pen and creamy paper. And in the digital realm, I write exclusively in Ulysses.

I think Ulysses might be the best writing app you can get on the Mac, on your iPhone or on your iPad. It's definitely the best one for me, which is why I've been using it for ten years now. That's literally millions of words, all written in one app.