![]() ![]() According to the company’s website, the upgrade fee is the same for both the regular and education licenses. Users who purchased Scrivener 2 for macOS before that date could buy Scrivener 3 with a 45% discount. The major update from Scrivener 2 to 3 was free for users who bought Scrivener 2 on or after 20th August 2017. **For example, the incremental update from Scrivener version 3.1 to 3.2 was free. * The prices shown are from the respective websites for Microsoft and Literature and Latte as of June 23, 2021. Apple’s macOS provides free Numbers, Keynote, and Mail thus, I derive limited benefits from Microsoft’s offer that includes Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.At $49.00* for a household license (i.e., multi-computers), Scrivener offers tremendous value, and historically, incremental updates** have been free.If you want to handle your planning, writing, editing, and publishing in one app, and not tie yourself to an online subscription, consider Scrivener:.Onetime purchases don’t have an upgrade option, which means if you plan to upgrade to the next major release, you’ll have to buy it at full price.It does not include any of the services that come with a Microsoft 365 single-personal subscription, which is priced at $69.99* annually or $6.99* monthly ($83.88 annualized). Office 2019 is a onetime purchase option at $249.99* for a single-computer license that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.Before you decide, take a look at Microsoft’s pricing: If you’re comfortable using Word, and you don’t mind using additional tools to prepare and publish your novel, consider sticking with the Microsoft app.Current features include capturing and tracking ideas and research, the ease of arranging story scenes without the need to cut and paste, creating and sorting index cards on the digital equivalent of a corkboard, an outliner similar to a spreadsheet that can show and sort user-created metadata, the ability to apply separate formats to screen, print, and digital output, and the compile feature to publish in industry standard print and digital formats.Scrivener’s editor includes the typical capabilities, such as formatting characters, line spacing, indents, bullets, shortcut keys.Scrivener: Designed as a thesis and novel outliner and word processor, Literature and Latte’s Scrivener grew into a robust platform for extensive writing projects.Microsoft added templates for user-created formatting, WordArt for graphical effects, user-created Macros to automate processes, section breaks for chapters, table of contents, shortcut keys to simplify on-screen formatting, and many more features.Over the years, layers of added features expanded Word’s use beyond the workplace.Word: Designed as a word processor, Microsoft’s Word soon became the gold-standard for PCs populating corporate America.Format and Publish to Print-ready and Digital-ready Filesįor a detailed breakdown of capabilities, see my Scrivener Review.Set and Track Custom Metadata and Keywords Using the Outliner. ![]() Set and Track Writing Project Targets and Progress.Pre-formatted Templates (e.g., Novels, Screenwriting, Non-fiction).Import (MS Word and Google Docs) and Export Text (Various Formats). ![]()
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