Scrivener for Mac

What's new in this version:

macOS 26 Support:
- Updated for macOS 26 Tahoe support, with many subtle changes to the UI to better fit with Tahoe.
- Scrivener now has a new, Liquid Glass application icon.
- As part of these updates, the minimum version of macOS that Scrivener 3.5 supports is now macOS 11.

Stability Improvements:
- A slew of interface validation code has been rewritten to alleviate the trackpad scrolling lag experienced by some users

Text System:
- Worked around an Apple bug whereby lists take on the formatting of the preceding paragraph.
- Fixed an issue whereby list items following styles and other special formatting could become corrupted, caused by recent internal changes to the macOS text system. (Note that this only prevents the problem from happening in the future. Text already affected will need to be edited manually.)
- Added code to work around Apple TextKit drawing bugs whereby adding or deleting lines could result in text below the edited lines not redrawing properly.
- Text caret resizing code has been updated, which hopefully fixes an issue with the text caret sometimes drawing too small or not at all.

Usability Improvements:
- Project search no longer closes the composition mode window when the latter is open in a different Space.
- Fixed bug whereby new cards added to the freeform corkboard weren’t added at the right position.
- Fixed bug whereby Opt-dragging cards on the freeform corkboard with the option to create duplicates enabled would mess up the positions of existing cards.
- Fixed issue with being able to take blank snapshots in inspector.
- Fixed issue with being able to spam snapshot taking in the inspector.
- Fixed issue whereby moving paragraphs up and down using the keyboard shortcuts while typewriter scrolling was enabled could cause erratic scrolling.
- Fixed issue whereby redefining paragraph styles containing heading levels did not update the heading level for existing text using the style.

Scriptwriting:
- On macOS 26, there is now a slightly longer delay for the auto-complete suggestions list appearing during typing when “Show suggestions list while typing” is turned on in Settings. This is to avoid choppy typing caused by Apple adding an animation whenever the suggestions list appears. This means that if you are, for example, typing a scene heading in script mode, you will now need to pause typing very briefly to see the list of completions. (Or you can hit ⌥ Esc to see suggestions immediately.) Turning on “Reduce motion” in macOS’s accessibility settings removes the animation, in which case Scrivener will use the older, shorter delay.
- Fixed bug caused by undocumented changes by Apple to TextKit that made it so that parentheticals in scriptwriting were capitalised when they should ignore auto-capitalisation. This bug affected systems running 10.15 and higher.
- Fixed bug whereby the option to add scene numbering to script elements would break keep-with-next for those elements when compiling for print or PDF

Export and Compile:
- Kindle (.mobi) has now been removed as a Compile export option, since Amazon no longer supports the .mobi format and now expects ebooks to be submitted using the ePub file format. Existing Compile formats set to use Kindle are automatically switched to use ePub.
- Fixed an issue whereby the Compile window was mostly blank on macOS Tahoe
- Page Layout no longer requires units entering in the margins text fields
- Fixed bug whereby exported Word documents would be corrupted if the same link was added to the main text and to footnotes or comments
- Fixed bug whereby the font of Inspector footnotes and comments was not affected by the Page Layout override option
- Fixed bug whereby footnotes at the end of a section could result in invalid HTML in ebook export
- Fixed issue where captions beneath images would not be recognised as captions when exporting to MultiMarkdown formats if a footnote was attached to the image

UI Fixes:
- Fixed bug whereby the option to show compiled footnote numbers in the Inspector would not work if back matter was included in the compiled text
- Fixed issue whereby disclosure triangles and pop-up indicators would be the wrong colour for selected rows in the outliner
- Fixed issue with some controls using the wrong text colour when selected in certain areas of the UI.
- Fixed UI typos
- Many minor UI tweaks to fix issues on macOS 26

Other:
- Updated APA project template for APA 7
- To fix a loophole in Scrivener’s trial, the grace session after the trial period finishes is now limited to 48 hours.
- Fixed issue whereby if Scrivener was in quarantine or on a removable disk when launched, it would get copied to the Applications folder if you had chosen “Do not show again” to the warning about this, even if you had chosen not to install to the Applications folder in the past.
- Improved error messages for cross-grade check failures