is scrivener for ipad worth it?

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@katlovergilpin

For the past year, I have been writing exclusively on my iPad Pro. While I miss a lot of the features from the Mac version, I find it keep me focused and writing. With that said, there are some frustrations to Scrivener on the iPad. Editing can be a chore. When selecting sentences or paragraphs, the enter thing jumps and you end up selecting more than you want and trying to stop it from jumping around is almost impossible. You will need to keep typewriting scrolling on as your keyboard, if you’re using the virtual one, will not keep up with you and some of your text will be hidden behind the keyboard until you scroll up. I don’t use Dropbox to sync as I find it doesn’t work most of the time and gave up when I kept losing my work. I use Airdrop between devices and copy backups to my iCloud folder. As for compiling, I don’t need a lot of options. I self-publish and therefore I just need to compile to a word document and I have a service that creates my ePub/Kindle formats that I can upload to the sites.
I love Scrivener. Lately I’ve been working with one of the support persons as I have been having issues of the app crashing on me every time I open it when I want to work on my project. We may have it all worked out as I have not had it happen today. I am hoping it will get a much needed update, maybe to sort out the issues we’ve had the last couple of years, and some new features. Overall, it works for me and despite some of the issues (all apps have them), it really is worth the money.
I hope this helps.

Just want to quickly address the sentence I colored in the quote. See the following forum post that shows how to make the selection process easier. Also see @AmberV’s (L&L support) acknowledgement and advice in the subsequent posts made this year*.

Using the select tool

A method to make the task livable: Select material, then use the arrows in the extended keyboard row to increase/decrease the amount of the selection. Experiment. [IMG_0136.PNG] ETA: In order to use the method, the initial selection must be made using the selection tool located in the extended keyboard row. Thereafter, as long as you remain in that document, the arrow method will work if you use the formatting pallete to select. (Scrivener 1.1.1 (964))

*There’s about a three year gap in the posts. AmberV had seen that I’d elsewhere linked to the selection method and kindly offered his attention/thoughts to the matter.