I have been contemplating buying Scrivener to manage the novel I am working on in a much more orderly fashion than using OneNote. My only concern is I primarily use Windows and Android. I know there is software available on Windows but is there any in development for android? If you are also an Android user is there an application that you use to be able to update on your phone/chromebook?
Thanks for the help.
Thereās been talk of an Android version, but donāt hold your breath.
If previous releases are anything to go by there would be a year or two of betaās before being released, and thereās no sign of that.
There are apparently a few text type editors you can achieve something with but itās Kludge.
Reality, at the moment, if you want a seamless solution, get an iPhone or iPad.
Bought myself a Windows tablet on which I run the full version of Scrivener.
There are apps on Android, I have JotterPad in mind. (Although I am not even sure it works so well anymoreā¦)
Basically, any text app that supports RTF.
But even then, using those Android toys is far from what youād get from either a Windows tablet, or an iPhone/iPad.
Hi @Tanalei,
L&Lās developers have mentioned plans to provide an Android version of both Scrivener and Scapple. For reference, see this older post by Keith (founder, main Scrivener designer, Mac/iOS developer) and this more recent one by Tiho (Windows developer).
Windows Scrivener runs on a framework called QT which does support Android, so at least some aspects of Windows Scrivener can be leveraged for Android Scrivener development.
But -
L&L will not provide anything like timelines or hints of a release date for future product releases. So, as @RuffPub said, we are probably years away from a product release.
Base your purchase decision on apps available now. You can download the trial version of Scrivener and use it for 30 days. Experiment with the Android apps mentioned by @Vincent_Vincent to see if they work well enough with Scrivener to support your process. If you chose to try it out, come back to the forum with any questions you haveāthereās always someone around willing to help.
Funny, in 2014 I was contemplating using OneNote for writing a novel until I discovered Scrivener. I still use OneNote on a daily basis for all sorts of things, but for long form fiction it would be really rudimentary and no comparison to Scrivener.
Best,
Jim
Yes, the other option is a Windows tablet. The benefit of that is you can run the full version of Scrivener Win (how well?) on the same licence for your Windows computer (L&Lās generous āhouseholdā licence.)
Works wonderfully.
. . . . . . .
The first that L&L are likely to say about an Android version is āit is availableā. They got stung very badly announcing the iOS/iPadOS version and then taking several years ā felt like a dozen! ā to bring it to market. It almost achieved the same status of Oracleās infamous vapourware products.
ā¦for beta, as they did with the iOS version.
Best,
Jim
ā¦ having learned a lesson from the too-early release of Windows version 3 betas and over-optimistic timelines.
Did the idea of an android version die?
Theyāve been pretty tight-lipped about Scrivener for android, but this comment is from their official āXā account in September. I suspect itās still under development.
https://x.com/ScrivenerApp/status/1702613889731404167?s=20
All i want for christmas is scrivener for android 
Might pay to ask Santa for something elseā¦
Iāve been hopping back and forth between Scrivener for Windows and Wavemaker.cards so I have something I can write on and sync between desktop and android mobile. Just finished my MFA and looking at what tools Iām going to use. Really frustrated we donāt have an Android app. Iām very uncomfortable in the Apple ecosystem - the UX is just not for me. Now friends are recommending Obsidian.md with all itās customizability and community plugins. But all I really want is Scrivener for Android and the ability to sync, even if that relies on Dropbox or Google Drive or something.
Obsidian is ā¦ obsessive 
ā¦ anyway, something quite different than Scrivener. A little closer is an app that has been praised by many recently: Upnote. Also not like Scrivener, but pretty, affordable, with surprising features and for all platforms.
See also:
I would second the Obsidian recommendation for anyone that is comfortable writing in Markdownābut as youāll read in the links above, as a tool for working with Scrivener, rather than replacing it (it doesnāt strike me as viable given how it is very much a note-taking tool rather than a long form writing tool, but then Iāve seen people say they prefer Bear to Scrivener, so they must be using Scrivener in a very different way than I do, which is fair).
The main point of conflict between Scrivener and it is Obsidianās non-standard link markup, which doesnāt like how Scrivener uses square brackets in the sync file names, but if youāre using it as a simple āfront endā to your projectās writings on mobile, rather than a system of its own, that isnāt a relevant conflict. Otherwise, the two work very well together indeed.