Is there Ulysses for Windows or Android?

Ulysses is an Apple app

Ulysses runs on the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad, and its library syncs between them through iCloud. There is no Windows, Android, or web version. So the practical question is how to get your writing out of the library and into something that runs where you now work.

Nothing is locked in. Ulysses writes in a Markdown-based markup and exports in open formats, so the text moves cleanly. What stays behind is the library's organization: groups, filters, and keywords are Ulysses features that another app will not read.

Getting a library out, on a Mac or iPad

1. Check your backups first. Ulysses keeps automatic local backups of the whole library on each device, though not of external folders, and a recent one is worth confirming before you start moving things, even though it only restores into Ulysses.
2. Open a group and select its sheets. Ulysses treats the sheets in one export as a single text, so they come out as one document in the group's order, which for a book is usually the right shape.
3. On a Mac, use the Export button in the editor's toolbar, or right-click the selection and choose Export…. On an iPad, tap the circled ellipsis in the editor and then Export. Choose the Text format, then Markdown, which is the most portable. TextBundle is the better choice when sheets contain images, because it packs the text and its pictures into one folder or a single .textpack file.
4. Repeat for each group you want to keep, and put the files somewhere outside iCloud.

The panel also offers DOCX, and it suits anything headed to an editor who works in Word. One more route, if your library already uses them: sheets kept in an external folder, such as a Dropbox folder added to the library, are ordinary Markdown files on disk and can be opened by any editor on any system.

In Tabularia

Tabularia works in a browser, on Windows and Android among others, and it imports what Ulysses exports: Markdown or DOCX, and TextBundle either as a folder or packed as a TextPack. Markdown headings turn into chapters, so a joined export whose sheets each open on a heading of the same level arrives with a chapter per sheet. A TextBundle's pictures come along too, landing in Assets and on the page at the spot the text names. The conversion runs on your device from the file you hand it; Tabularia never reads the Ulysses library directly.

Expect some tidying. The import guide lists what Markdown loses, including link addresses and nested lists, which arrive flattened with their words intact. Ulysses's own markup extensions may need cleaning out by hand. On an Android phone, the Studio is a single column without the designed page, which is closer to the Ulysses editor than the full desktop view is.