Scrivener Companion - Scrivo 3 Reviews

by Walkersrq

Constantly crashes, difficult to upload into dropbox, does not sync easily with dropbox. Sorry i spent the money

by 888popcorn

They don’t respond to customer questions. They need to step up their customer service.

by Thedigitaldorkette

ScrivenerCompanion isn’t optimized for iPad iOS 13. It is so slow, it’s worthless.

I bought it because they advertise that you can use it in Tandem with Scrivener and that it will synch better with dropbox. You can’t. It doesn’t. I can’t even open a project. It takes literally 5 minutes. I went and made myself a sandwich and it still wasn’t up.

I want my money back. iTunes Store won’t refund, even though it doesn’t work. I’ll try with app customer support, but from the comments about the poor customer support for ScrivenerCompanion, I won’t hold my breath.

by Scruffy_Dog

Knowtilus, Kairoos, Studio5apps?

These three have their hands in these apps:
Textilus, Scrivio, and NotesWriter Pro.

These three apps have very little to differentiate them from each other. They all look the same. Where is a feature comparison chart?

Where do you go to get support? I see reviews for all three that mention a decided lack of response when contacting "support."

by Oliviawrites

I’m new to Scrivner, just got a new IPad Pro 4 and trying to get started by uploading from Dropbox . Interfaces don’t look anything like instructional videos. No split screens, no automatic tutorial load. I’m just going round and round uploading dupliciate files. Began writing, then saved and closed, only to find it did not save my draft. I want to like ScrivenerCompanion. It comes so highly rated. I am beginning to think the glitch is related to not being updated for the latest iPad version?

by Cw1002

This is a total ripoff of Scrivener - and not a good one at that. Buy the real thing, not this knock off. It doesn’t tie into or sync with Scrivener at all. They put Scrivener in the title in ScrivenerCompanion Store just to scam people into buying it thinking it was the pro version of Scrivener.

by Phranklin

After reading many of the reviews, it’s apparent that this developer is putting Scrivener in ScrivenerCompanion ’s title to poach people looking for the Scrivener iOS client. I, and it seems that many others in the reviews, fell for this.

I found ScrivenerCompanion to be useless for me, since I was looking for a way to work on my Scrivener projects on my iPad.

Scrivener does have an app on ScrivenerCompanion Store, but this isn’t it.

by Zombiecruch

Scrivener is my go to productivity app. I use it on all of my devices but when it stopped working I thought maybe I needed the pro version. I ponied up, finally got my just two of my projects on it and all it does is crash. I uninstalled and reinstalled, but nooooo. I have all UTD apple products. Please fix the bugs. I can’t live without scrivener and this is seriously screwing my productivity.

by Jeduhu

First off, I have to use Scrivener for its Binder function. If you think Scrivo pro will add a detailed or comparable experience you may be in for a bit of disappointment. I know I was.

I purchased this as a possible better or updated version to Scrivener’s IOS app, which also is missing the fundamental binder features.

I need to get a refund, I can’t even open any of my scrivener projects via Dropbox or ICloud, even after following their guide.

I can’t really figure out what ScrivenerCompanion is used for honestly. It’s NOT intuitive at all.

by Givingtree1994

I can’t even open a project without ScrivenerCompanion completely crashing. Disappointed I spent money on ScrivenerCompanion.
The concept is great but they need to fine tune the issues and glitches.

by HoganBro

I like it but on m iPad 12.9 it creates these weird squares randomly over the text. I have to close the file and reopen to clear them. Sometimes that doesn’t work. I’ve contacted them twice about it, sending them screenshots. They responded once, but through every update the problem remains.

by Roskowkanisha

I seem to have trouble with the front size in text for now I could only size it down to ten instead of lower now then I did before.

by Oakwoodcomics

Used ScrivenerCompanion for a few months but eventually I switched to another one because it wasn’t 100% reliable. Would sometimes freeze for a really long time and then black screen / crash after a while reloading. It’s great when it works but I can’t abide the crash freeze man

by Maxfun Lol

Its iCloud folder is not syncing at all with Scrivener 3. But the issue of inability to synchronize from iOS to MacBook is probably an iCloud Drive’s fault since it never worked either for Ulysses or ByWord.

I still can’t give it 5 stars though as much as I wanted or else I’d be lying. It has been experiencing glitches of getting stuck and not responding anything you touched. I had to switch off my iPhone each time it got stuck and it was a regular occurrence. So 4 stars is already me being generous.

by Mountainbound%

I have been using various versions of Scrivo for writing a novel over the past two years and work in ScrivenerCompanion every day. It is much easier to customize screen background color & text color/size and offers much more flexibility in this respect than Scrivener which only allows for 3 background screens, none of which are dark enough for my taste. I find this makes a big difference in reducing eye strain, and hence do all of my drafts in Scrivo Pro.

I have not had any problems losing documents, in either iCloud or Dropbox (manual sync) and generally like the Scrivo layout for storing documents and creating folders. It serves my purposes anyway.

The only recurring issues are small bugs that never seem to go away. Most of then concern the stability of font size, line spacing, and line-break functionality, but they only pop up every now and then and I have found easy fixes for each (by closing and reopening the document or just resetting the style). Were it not for these, I would give it 5 stars because it does what none of the other apps seem to do as well: provide a distraction free writing environment for writing, as opposed to forcing you into markdown mode, with a wide array of screen and text colors to choose from.

If you are looking for a simple, flexible app for writing, this might be for you.

by Kirstyn Chase

ScrivenerCompanion is worth every penny. Works good for anything! Writing a book, using as a diary, great for school work, everything! I would recommend this program to anyone at any age, even my 9 year old loves it when she writes. Thank you who ever designed it!

by Lylyluvda916

Title says it all. This is exactly like another program but way cheaper. I was on the fence about trying a different, more expensive software and found this. It was a little different, but it worked. Something broke, but updates have since then fixed that issue. I love it!

by Coderjohn

Love ScrivenerCompanion . I have also had the occasional graphics glitches on my new iPad Pro (gen 3). It looks like scrambled boxes that covers some text. The issue seems to come up when I open files synced with iCloud. Haven’t experienced it with files prior to syncing. The glitch goes away by itself eventually; only a minor annoyance. ScrivenerCompanion is still worth the money though.

by Chh6

You want security; offline privacy with passwords locks; the options to create re-edit mark down in addition to the option of of 25 templates to choose from. Then my Firend you will not be disappointed when you try ScrivenerCompanion. It’s that “GREAT” that after three years of having ScrivenerCompanion I am just not leaving a review. Therefore thank you ”Developers" keep up the great work. You have my support.

by Kylex5

Syncing my Scrivener novels with Scrivo via Dropbox works perfectly on iPad and iPhone! Thanks very much! Keep the good work!