Mac Apps

Following up on my post from yesterday, I found a great list of writing tools on the Scrivener website. They include:

• Scrivener ($40/$35 edu)
• WriteRoom ($25)
• Ulysses (€45/€35 edu/€25 lite version)
• CopyWrite ($25)
• DEVONthink ($80 pro/$50 std)
• OmniOutliner ($70/$50 edu for pro, $40/$25 edu for std)

A bunch of other programs too, and a brief description of each. Definitely worth checking out the whole list.

Every Mac user should probably have at least one of these programs at their disposal. Personally, I use OmniOutliner in combination with BBEdit and TextEdit to get me through the day, but if I ever embarked on a serious writing project, I'd look at either Ulysses or Scrivener.

Here's a list of a few well-known options in each "editors" category I've listed so far (not including the behemoth Microsoft or Adobe apps that everyone knows but probably can't afford). If you have more programs to add, please comment! If you want to review a particular program or compare similar programs, please do so in a new post!

Editors: Audio

• Fission ($32)
• Audacity (Free)
• QuickTime Player (included with Mac OS X)

Editors: Code

• BBEdit ($125/$49 edu)
• TextWrangler (Free)
• TextMate (€39)

Editors: PDF

• PDFpen ($50)
• Skim (Free)
• Preview (included with Mac OS X)

Editors: Pictures

• GraphicConverter ($35)
• Acorn ($50)
• Preview (included with Mac OS X)

Editors: Word Processing

• Nisus Writer Express ($45)
• Bean (Free)
• TextEdit (included with Mac OS X)