[kemayo]

Curious whether you have any plans for an iOS app accompanying this? My partner uses Scrivener for writing currently, but does a lot of it on their iPad, so Scrivener's app + Dropbox sync is a fairly important thing for them.

(Scrivener's Dropbox sync being frequently buggy may help explain why I'm asking about this for them...)

[coldtea]

>(Scrivener's Dropbox sync being frequently buggy may help explain why I'm asking about this for them...)

Hmm, never had an issue with Scrivener/Dropbox sync.

Mind you, I open Scrivener only 3-4 times a week and close it after I'm done with a document. I also don't use it frequently from my other machines (iMac/iPad), so it mainly syncs what I save on the main driver.

[kemayo]

Yeah, they have a workflow that's very switching-dependent. Go out and work with the iPad all day, then switch and edit on a laptop at home.

They also like working at some coffee shops with not-ideal WiFi, which may help to expose bad sync cases. (I think it's fine for the sync to fail sometimes, but they've lost work before to this, which seems unacceptable.)

[zhubert]

That definitely sounds frustrating. Personally I don't like how intrusive it is, always blocking the loading of the app while it shows me the sync process.

iOS (like desktop Linux and Android) are entirely possible and would be fun to build. The underlying data storage is platform agnostic (hurray SQL) and the development environment is bifurcated only along desktop vs native lines.

[virgil_disgr4ce]

This is pretty much why I stopped using Scrivener entirely and started using WriterDuet for screenwriting. Trying to sync on Google Drive was an impossible shitshow. Still pisses me off.