Scrivener (software)

Scrivener
Original author(s) Keith Blount
Developer(s) Literature and Latte
Initial release 2007-01-20
Stable release

Mac OS X 2.6.0 / October 20, 2014 [1]

Windows 1.8.6 / March 11, 2015 [2]
Preview release Linux 1.7.2.3 BETA [3] / July 22, 2014
Operating system Mac OS X, Windows (iOS in development / Linux in Beta)
Type text editor, personal information manager
License proprietary (shareware)
Website www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php

Scrivener is a word-processing program and outliner designed for authors.[4] Scrivener provides a management system for documents, notes and metadata. This allows the user to organize notes, concepts, research and whole documents for easy access and reference (documents including text, images, PDF, audio, video, web pages, etc.). Scrivener offers templates for screenplays, fiction, and non-fiction manuscripts. After writing a piece of text, the user may export it to a standard word processor for formatting.

Features

Features include a corkboard, the ability to rearrange files by dragging-and-dropping virtual index cards on the corkboard, an outliner, a split screen mode that enables users to edit several documents at once, a full-screen mode, and "snapshots" (the ability to save a copy of a particular document prior to any drastic changes). Scrivener allows photos to be dragged into its interface as well. Because of its breadth of interfaces and features, it has positioned itself not only as a word processor, but as a literary "project management tool," and includes many user-interface features that resemble Apple's software-development environment Xcode.

Platforms

Keith Blount created, and continues to maintain, the program as a tool to help him write the "big novel", allowing him to keep track of ideas and research. It is built mostly on libraries and features of OS X from version 10.4 onward. In 2011 a Windows version of the software was released, written and maintained by Lee Powell.

Macintosh

The latest version of Scrivener for Mac OS X is version 2.6.[5]

The direct sale version can be installed on Macs running Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or later. The same version can be obtained from the Mac App Store, but since the Mac App Store application only runs on 10.7 and later versions of Mac OS X, is not available for purchase or installation on OS 10.6.

The company also makes Scrivener 2.5 available for earlier version of OS X, but claims it is "the final version of the software that was built to run on PPC or Intel systems running OS X 10.4 or 10." This version is available on the direct sale page in the sidebar titled "Mac OS X 10.4–5 and PowerPC".

In addition to the Scrivener version 2 releases, the direct download page provides access to the obsolete version 1.54, but licenses are no longer available for purchase. The 1.54 release is compatible Mac OS X versions 10.4 through 10.6.

Windows

The latest version of Scrivener for Windows is 1.8.6.[6]

The Windows version is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.

Linux

There is no official release for Linux, but there is a public beta version.[3]

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