What's New in 4.7 (October 2025)
- Support for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.
What's New in 4.6.1 (May 2025)
- Fixed an issue that could cause notes in FDX files to be omitted from the export.
What's New in 4.6 (March 2025)
- Fixed bug that could prevent the find and replace menu item from being displayed.
- Fixed bug that could prevent the cursor from appearing when selecting a spell-checking result.
- Fixed issue that could cause stale index cards to be presented if you're bouncing between text and storyboard mode.
What's New in 4.5 (October 2024)
- Added support for the new lauch experience on iOS18.
- Fixed an undo issue related to marked text.
What's New in 4.4.1 (May 2023)
- Fix for cases where title menu was shown in the toolbar when it shouldn't have been shown.
- Fix dictation options when running on iOS 16.
What's New in 4.4 (October 2022)
- Stage Manager. Edit your documents using multiple resizable overlapping windows. (iOS 16+)
- Incremental Find and Replace. The new user interface lets you get to what you're looking for faster. (iOS 16+)
- Editor-style navigation bar. Adopts the new-in-iOS 16 "editor" navigation bar style giving you better access to editing features. (iOS 16+)
- The index card editor now has context menus for faster storyboarding.
- Fixed an issue that could cause typewriter mode to stop working after an autoscroll.
- Fixed an issue that could cause typing attributes (e.g. bold) to be set incorrectly when you first open a document.
Storyist 4.4 for iOS requires iOS 15 or later.
What's New in 4.3.3 (October 2022)
- The index card editor again shows the color coding information, fixing a bug introduced in 4.2.2.
What's New in 4.3.2 (August 2022)
- The text editor now supports setting right-to-left writing direction.
- The screenwriting shortcut icons now update to reflect the currect style.
- Arrow keys can now be used to select screenwriting completions on iOS 15.
- Screenwriting completions now did the uncompleted portion of the selection.
What's New in 4.3.1 (April 2022)
- The sidebar now ensures the current chapter/section is selected when sliding open.
- The style inspector no longer incorrectly reports that a style is overridden if you edit a style to use a Display P3 color instead of an sRGB.
- You can now use the arrow keys on a physical keyboard to select autocomplete candidates in Fountain and Final Draft files on iOS 15.
- Outlines in Fountain and Final Draft files are now displayed correctly when the sidebar is first shown.
- Storyist no longer unexpectedly quits in certain circumstances when editing Fountain and Final Draft files, and the sidebar is not displayed.
- Storyist no longer unexpectedly quits in certain circumstances when pasting text into a comment.
What's New in 4.3 (October 2021)
- Storyist 4.3 supports the new keyboard shortcut system in iOS 15. Shortcuts are organized according to the familiar (on macOS) File/Edit/View menus.
- New shortcuts let you tab between the sidebar and the editor, and cursor between elements in lists. (iOS 15)
- The comment support has been significantly updated. It's now easier to create and review comments with and without the comment sidebar visible.
- On iPhone, Storyist supports the new half-height popovers, so you see the underlying text.
- The new UI now limits how small the pinch-to-zoom gesture can make the text in draft mode.
- Storyist 4.3 addresses an issue that could cause Storyist to fail to save changes if you modified the file extension on a Mac to be mixed case (e.g. ".story" -> ".Story") and synced it to your iOS device.
- Storyist 4.3 no longer crashes in a rare case that could occur when entering a newline after a string of undo commands.
- PDF export no longer offers the option to choose a title page from the project if the file does not belong to a project.
- Storyist 4.3 requires iOS 14.1 or later.
What's New in 4.2.2 (December 2020)
- Storyist no longer crashes in certain curcumstances when opening the formatting inspector in a plain text file.
- Files created on macOS with mixed case file extensions (e.g. ".Story") now work properly in Storyist for iOS.
- When creating PDFs for stand-alone files, Storyist no longer offers the option to create a title page from another file in the project (because there is no project).
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What's New in 4.2.1 (November 2020)
- Cursor shapes are no more appropriate for outline items when hovering over an item.
- You no longer see "unknown error occurred" when editing Storyist files created on Storyist for macOS and having outline ratings values.
- Storyist no longer crashes in certain curcumstances when opening the plain text formatting inspector.
- Files create on macOS with mixed case file extensions (e.g. ".Story") now work properly in Storyist for iOS.
- When creating PDFs for stand-alone files, Storyist no longer offers the option to create a title page from another file in the project (because there is no project).
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What's New in 4.2 (September 2020)
Storyist 4.2 includes new features and bug fixes.
- Support for iOS 14 features including the new sidebar design, menus, and the color picker.
- Trackpad support on iOS 13.4 or later. Works great with the new Magic Keyboard.
- Create project and text file templates.
- Show/hide invisible characters.
- Set the default formatting for plain text files using the new plain text inspector.
- Pinch to zoom in draft mode as well as page mode.
- Navigate in the template chooser and text editor with additional keyboard shortcuts.
- Revert to the legacy (pre-mouse support) selection behavior using the file preferences window (More > Show File Preferences > Show Text Loupe).
- Streamlined screenplay completion UI. The completion list is now aligned with the text and supports keyboard shortcuts and mouse events.
- Storyist now uses the system localizations for French and Spanish inch and centimeter measurements.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the page to jump when auto scrolling selections that span more than a screen height.
- Updated icons for the iPhone accessory keys.
- iPhone accessory keys have a more pleasing layout in landscape mode.
- The template choose no longer shows context menu commands for the folder view.
- Fixed an issue that could disable templates after swiping down to dismiss the template chooser on iOS 13.
- Changes to the autocorrection and autocapitalization settings now take place immediately.
What's New in 4.1.4 (September 2020)
Storyist 4.1.4 includes support for custom fonts and fixes some bugs.
- Fonts installed by apps like Adobe Creative Cloud are now available in the font picker for use in documents. (iOS 13)
- Storyist no longer scrolls the cursor under the navigation bar when typing in an empty file when typewriter mode is enabled.
- Scrollers are now placed correctly in page mode on iPhone.
- Storyist no longer crashes in certain circumstances when font or paragraph groups are collapsed in the shortcuts bar.
- Storyist no longer crashes in certain circumstances when formatting headers in page mode on iPhone.
- Storyist no longer crashes in certain circumstances when adding index cards to the storyboard.
- Storyist no longer crashes in certain circumstances when adding a tile page to a PDF on export.
- The crash reporting framework has been updated to the latest version.
What's New in 4.1.3 (March 2020)
Storyist 4.1.3 includes a redesigned text inspector and fixes some bugs.
- The text inspector has been simplified and now supports dynamic type.
- Fixed a bug that caused duplicate styles to be created when pasting general text into a screenplay.
- Improved the resize animations when switching between More menus.
- Fixed background of pagination settings in dark mode on iOS 13.
- Fixed the More button size on home screen on iOS 13.
- Fixed a bug that caused text to be printed white when running in dark mode on iOS 13.
- The formatting shortcuts are no longer available when editing plain text files.
What's New in 4.1.2 (October 2019)
Storyist 4.1.2 fixes some user-reported issues.
- Fixed a bug introduced in 4.1.1 preventing headers from being edited.
- Fixed a bug preventing header/footer shortcuts from appearing in certain circumstances.
- Updated the header/footer shortcut icons for iOS 13.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Storyist to crash when presenting the trial/update purchase options.
- Fixed a bug that prevented errors from being presented when you're not connected to the network.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Storyist to crash when restoring a file to a previous version.
- Updated several dark mode colors for better readability.
- Header/footer text is now drawn closer to where it should be when starting editing.
- Unedited Fountain and RTF documents are no longer marked as modified if you simply open them.
- The More menu is now resized to a more appropriate size when tapping on submenus.
What's New in 4.1.1 (October 2019)
Storyist 4.1.1 addresses some additional iOS 13 compatibility isues.
- Storyist no longer crashes on iOS 13 when it is deactivated (moved to the background) while a More menu popover is displayed.
- Storyist no longer crashes on iOS 13 in certain circumstances on iOS 13 when reopening a document that was displaying a document in multiple views.
- Storyist no longer crashes on iOS 13 in certain circumstances when adding or deleting properties from story sheets.
- Fixed a bug, introduced in 4.1, that could prevent the upgrade discount price from being offered on iOS 13.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent files from being deleted on iOS 13 using the context menu in the folder view. (Deleting by other means was not affected).
What's New in 4.1 (Oct 2019)
Storyist 4.1 includes support for new features in iPadOS and iOS 13, including:
- Dark mode.
- Multiple windows.
- New icons.
- Context menus.
- The updated font picker.
Storyist 4.1 also includes several bug fixes and usability enhancements.
- Storyist offers keyboard shortcuts for navigation, zoom, find, and editing.
- The outline view now properly displays non-sequential heading levels. Previously, if the outline level had gaps in outline levels (for example, a heading 1 followed by a heading 3) or started with a heading level other than 1, the indentation of the heading in the outline view could be incorrect.
Storyist 4.1 requires iOS 12 or later.
What's New in 4.0.2 (June 2019)
- Storyist no longer prompts you to restore your purchase after upgrading. Previously, some users were seeing the in-app purchase window the first time the app was run after an upgrade.
- Storyist no longer quits unexpectedly on iPhone in certain circumstances when reverting to a previous version.
What's New in 4.0.1 (May 2019)
- You can now import plain text files that have an extension other than .txt.
- Storyist no longer quits unexpectedly when editing a stand-alone markdown file.
- Storyist no longer discards unsaved changes when quitting the app. Previously, if you swiped up on the app in the app carousel right after switching away from the app, it was possible that the changes would not be saved.
What's New in 4.0 (March 2019)
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Files App support.
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Commands are organized in a simplified More menu on each screen.
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The text and index card editors take better advantage of larger screens on X model iPhones.
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Expanded keyboard shortcuts include cut/copy/paste and undo.
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Free Trial and Upgrade Discounts. Storyist 4 is free to download and offers a 14-day free trial.
Storyist 4.0 requires iOS 11 or later.
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