There’s an iPad ‘Swype’ wannabe called ‘Swipe’.
It’s dreadful.
It recognises some simple common words such as ‘the’, but with everything else it gives you a list of the words it thinks you might have typed (was that ‘and’ or add’?). It doesn’t even recognise ‘cow’, you have to type that in full.
It could conceivably be of use to a disabled person who finds it difficult to use a keyboard in the usual way, but other than that…
It’s also seemingly I possible to locate using any conventional google search phrase.
And…
Naturally impossible to install and use as an alternative to the built in ios keyboard, which does a pretty fine job really considering the restrictions that come from having no tactile feedback.
{like all of these posts - written on my iPad}
I found the iPad virtual keyboard very odd when I first started using it. But I soon got used to it and now I fly along.
It’s getting to the point where I prefer it to a regular keyboard.
(The full name of the Swipe app is ‘Swipe Type’ - I’ve just seen there’s a free ‘lite’ version. I wasted £1.99!)
Considering the fact that Scrivener is an affordable software, I believe that all the possible and probable customers for an iPad version will be those who already use Scrivener.
There are plenty of writing apps already.
I think instead that an iPad version should focus on proof-reading the manuscripts and maybe some editing. I would look at the future iPad version more as an extension of a hard copy printed compiled document. And I am convinced writers would find it quite useful.
Pdf editing had been considered by David Hewsons as well in his interesting book, even though the procedure is not as straightforward as it should be.
I don’t see the iPad version being sufficiently useful to the broader audience if it focuses entirely on proofreading manuscripts, but I can see it being very useful to me if that mode is at least part of the mix. Looking back on 25 years of sifting slushpiles, I think the biggest mistake writers make is not reviewing their finished work in a different media before submission.
Paper, Post-its, and a pen have long been the tools of choice, but a 'pad works, too, and doesn’t slaughter quite so many trees.
Page View, one-up or two-across, coupled with the standard Comments and Annotations, would be slicker than a cup-o-custard for writers and editors alike.
The iOS version of Scrivener isn’t going to replicate every function of the desktop.
It would be impossible to implement every function on a tablet UI, and it’s not something we see a need to do. If you want something that’s “about the size of a tablet” and capable of running Scrivener then an Air will do very nicely for that.
So as well as being a competent package in it’s own right I’m very keen on seeing it being a wonderful complement to the desktop. It won’t have every feature you have on the desktop, and I’m very glad of that.
If I can pick up my iPad and continue writing without spending ten minutes thinking through the ramifications of my sync option I’ll be happy.
If I can pick up my iPad and do some organising of my projects then I’ll be happy.
If I can pick up my iPad and proof read, add some comments etc then I’ll be happy.
If I can pick up my iPad and jot down a few quick notes I’ll be happy.
If I can do most (if not all) of this on my iPhone too I’ll be even happier.
So our aim is to to make it useful to as wide a spectrum of people as we can, both existing Scrivener users and those that have yet to come onboard.
If I could do just those, I’d be happy enough so that I’d actually buy an iPad. I’ve held off so far because none of the synching options with Scrivener seemed worth the effort. I pretty much work eight hours a day exclusively in Scrivener, and have gotten spoiled.
Actually the synching is rather smooth. I believe the point is how to go for reading the manuscript, adding notes and comments. My experience is with a pdf app like good reader and a nice stylus.
Pdf documents can be browsed and scribbled upon, and you can also write actual text.
It is not better than paper, unless you are on the move and want to travel light. So it is a trade-off.
But for me the real pain is when you want to revise those notes back to scrivener.
There is no straightforward way as far as I know (like having a dual pane window with a pdf noted document with the ability to jump from one note to the next on one side and the manuscript on the other) and for now the best approach seems to browse the pdf document on the iPad and manuscript on the main computer.
Maybe you could find interesting this link too.
http://www.davidhewson.com/blog/2011/10/8/revising-on-a-tablet-something-that-works.html
I’m planning on getting an iPad 3 as soon as it comes out (at least provided it has a higher-resolution Retina-style display) so the news that Scrivener for iOS is coming filled me with joy. This is awesome news!
To date, I’ve been writing a surprising amount (tens of thousands of words of notes and draft text) on my iPhone (without any kind of external keyboard) and then periodically importing large chunks into Scrivener on my Mac, where I then organize the notes and continue to work on the larger project. Just being able to work directly on my project in Scrivener, keeping everything seamlessly up to date at all times and having access to its organizational tools, will be a huge improvement.
Obviously the corkboard is essential, and you’re already working on that, and if anything, I think the freeform mode will be more useful on the iPad than on a Mac since the touch interface will just feel more natural for freely moving cards around.
A rich text system will also be a wonderful improvement on my current system of using Plaintext on my phone. So that’ll be great. But for whatever it is or isn’t worth, I don’t know at this point whether I’ll ever get any kind of external keyboard for my iPad. I don’t want to drag a large extra piece of gear around, for one, and I hate flat keyboards anyway. (I use a Goldtouch on my Mac.) So I hope the touch writing interface will get plenty of attention.
Beyond that, the thing that I think will matter to me most is having access to, control over and use of all the program’s meta-data (including creating new meta-data) from labels to status to keywords and custom meta-data (and editing all of them) as well as color coding in an intuitive, easily visible and comfortable way.
And second would be access to split views, such as two editors or one editor and a corkboard. It’d be really nice to support both portrait and landscape orientations so that people who like top/bottom splits can use portrait and people who prefer left and right can use landscape — or vice versa, I guess.
I don’t personally see the need to burden the iOS with compiling features, though. Meta-data editing and use will mean people won’t have extra work prepping for compile when they get back to their Macs or PCs, but I personally can’t imagine compiling on an iPad instead of on my Mac. I suppose that could be the minority view, though.
Anyway, I expect this to be a day one purchase for me. Can’t wait!
Hello everybody.
After spent lots of money in all the major app for editiding/synching with Scrivener (and time) I’ve found this app http://www.writingsapp.com/.
I’m using Writings/Scrivener with no problem (e.g. junk chars, duplicated files in Draft folder and other Dropbox folder name restrictions ecc.)
Now I’m waiting the Scrivener App for make happy me, my iPad and my work.
(sorry for my english but I’m sure your italian is worst 
)
Happy writing to all!
I’m using WritingsApp too, and it’s, for now, the best, IMO.
And I’m Italian too 
lovely. that’s exactly what Scrivener for iOS should do.