Ulysses vs MS Word
Ulysses is a minimal Markdown writing app, while Word is a general-purpose word processor.
Ulysses
Ulysses is geared towards professional writers who want a clean and simple tool to create and organize their work. It aims to remove all distractions, so the writer could focus on their work.
Microsoft Word
Word is a traditional word processor, allowing you to create and save documents, format text with headings, bold and italic, etc. It is suitable for everything, but not very good at one particular thing.
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