Great writing requires more than a compelling story. You want your text to be articulate and free of mistyped words. Take your writing to the next level with Ulysses’ built-in grammar and style check. It helps you fix grammar, spelling, and punctuation issues and offers recommendations on redundancy, style, and more — in over 20 languages.

The advanced check is an online service. Therefore, an internet connection is required to use it. You will be asked to enable it when you use it for the first time. Later, all you need to do is open the sheet and analyze your text. You’ll have to initiate the text check for each sheet individually.

Our grammar and style check is powered by the proofreading software LanguageTool. Ulysses utilizes only a portion of LanguageTool Premium’s features, specifically the ones for checking grammar, punctuation and style. It is available for almost all of Ulysses’ localized languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, and Spanish. Korean is the only language not currently supported. 

Furthermore, you can check texts in Catalan, Ukrainian, Irish, Breton, Arabic, Romanian, Esperanto, Galician, Persian, Polish, Tamil, Slovak, Italian, Slovenian, Danish, Asturian, Greek, Tagalog, Khmer, Swedish, and Belarusian.

On Mac

All you need to do is open the sheet you want to analyze and click the Suggestions view in the dashboard. You must enable the text check the first time you use it. After that, it will be active automatically.

Now, your text will be analyzed, and potential issues will be flagged.

You can conveniently sift through the check’s suggestions via the revision sidebar. One click takes you to the highlighted passage in the editor; a double-click opens the suggestion with detailed information on the issue as well as a recommended alternative and the option to ignore it. If you select the alternative, the text will be replaced automatically.

In the revision pane, you can browse suggestions or select a suggestion category, e.g., Redundancy. If your text contains recurring issues in this category, you can fix them all at once. Simply click on the filter icon next to a category to reveal recurring issues.

To correct recurring issues of a certain type at once, double-click the suggestion and select the alternative from the popover.

Via the controls icon at the bottom right of Suggestions view, you can disable categories you don’t need. Enabling the option “Ignored” allows you to browse the suggestions you’ve ignored before.

To disable your sheet's grammar and style check, uncheck all options in the “Advanced Check” section.

On iPad

To access Ulysses’ grammar and style check, open the dashboard's Overview and select Text Check.

When you use the Advanced Check for the first time, you have to enable it.

This will open the text check's overview with a list of suggestions neatly grouped into categories.

Tapping a category, for example, Typography, will open a list with all suggestions the text check has found. 

You can select a particular suggestion to get detailed information. Also, the editor will conveniently jump to the flagged passage in the text. Now you'll be able to choose a recommended alternative or choose to ignore the suggestion. You can also open a suggestion by tapping on a highlighted passage in the text.

Close the suggestion (circled x) to go back to the list of suggestions in this category. 

To quit the advanced text check, open the overview and tap End Text Check.

On iPhone

Just like on iPad, open the dashboard's Overview and select Text Check to start analyzing your sheet (1). The editor will open and highlight all text passages for which the text check has identified potential issues. Tap on a text passage to open the suggestion with more information on the issue and an option to accept or ignore a recommended alternative (2). At the bottom of the editor, you can see two icons (3). 

Tap the dashboard icon on the right to see a list of categories (1). If you select a category, the editor will only flag potential issues related to it. Tap the category's icon next to the dashboard button to see a list of all suggestions in that category (2). If you select a suggestion, the editor will jump right to the text passage. Swipe up to expand and down to close the view. To end the text check, open the dashboard view again and select End Text Check. You can also disable the advanced text check altogether. To do so, tap the circled ellipsis in the editor, select Customize Editor, choose Revision Mode, and toggle off Advanced Text Check (3).

A Note on Privacy

When you check a text, it will be sent to our servers, from which it is forwarded to LanguageTool for analysis. You have to explicitly trigger text check per sheet, and it will be run only in sheets where you do this, not in your entire library. While the text is being processed, it is kept on our servers and the servers of LanguageTool. It will be deleted from the servers shortly after the text checking has been completed.