Just wonderful - actual writing always at the fore. Gets clutter out of the way of your working, lets you annotate, outline, reorganize in a way that is modal enough that you can stay focused on structure, then zoom back in to the detail you need. A fluid tool for writers - wish I had it years ago.

The greatest thing ever created. Breaks with the single document word processor paradigm & lets you work easily with a non-linear writing process. Better than everything else in the known universe.

I've wandered over here from Avenir and Ulysses and CopyWrite. I'm evaluating it with Sente to handle footnotes, and the only thing I'm wishing for is integration with WriteRoom, my familiar full-screen editor.

Farewell OmniOutlinerPro. Scrivener's great strength is that it lets you take an existing manuscript, break it apart into chunks--into an outline form, more or less--and then put it back together. Without the hideously clutterful interface of some other programs...

Oh this is gaining so much ground on me... nothing else I've tried comes near this writing tool.

Surely, there is quite a saturated competition, with a bunch of similar tools, with similar concepts. But I find Scrivener to have the best vibe going on.

I like how you can tailor it to your specific writing style; i.e. it isn't particularly geared for screenwriting only, and it has a certain refreshing, 'generic' and universal feel to it.

If you're a, say, journalist, you can easily customize it for those needs. Likewise, for just about any field of application.

For the longest time I was using StoryMill and DevonThink Pro to manage both the research and the production aspect of writing fiction... until Scrivener fell into my lap. Everything gets loaded into one document, and I love the fact that I can write scene by scene without having to think about things linearly. Can't live without this app anymore. I love it.

Ahhh, this is writing bliss. No worrying about formatting or page breaks, or keeping up with hundreds of toolbar buttons you'll never use. Just a nice, slick fullscreen writing mode with no interruptions, an intuitive organizational structure, and a nice looking UI on top. Definitely the first choice in any writing I do, and one of the few apps I was more than happy to pay for!

Scrivener is just the most fantastic writing app. The right balance of research management and writing structuring, with a UI that is always helpful, never in the way. It appears Zen-like simple, but one can dig deep. 1.1 is a fantastic update, with hundreds of tweaks and features to hone the writing experience. I just wish there was a Windows version I could give as presents to my writing friends (I'd get them Macbooks+Scrivener, but that may sting my pockets ;-)

This update raises the bar even higher for how fantastic a writing application can be. I'll reiterate that this is one of those apps. that it's worth buying a Mac just to use. Simply superb.

Fantastic tool, clearly designed by and for writers. Start to finish, notes to final draft, Scrivener falls right in with the Mac mantra: it just works.