Scrivener: Last Release 2023-09-29
CloneChart flags Scrivener as a stale-release research candidate from public metadata: 4.2 stars from 2,607 ratings in Productivity, published by Literature & Latte. Release age does not establish why development slowed or whether current demand exists.
App Store Metadata Snapshot
What It Did
“The biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.” —Michael Marshall Smith, bestselling author Typewriter. Ring-binder. Scrapbook. Scrivener combines all the writing tools you need to craft your first draft, from nascent notion to final full stop. Tailor-made for creating long manuscripts, Scrivener banishes page fright by allowing you to compose your text in any order, in sections as large or small as you like. Got a great idea but don’t know where it fits? Write when inspiration strikes and find its place later. Grow your manuscript organically, idea by idea. Whether you…
What the Data Can. And Cannot: Show
The release and rating fields are useful screening signals. They are not evidence about a developer's motives, active users, revenue, or current search demand.
Release Recency
The latest release date in CloneChart's record is 2023-09-29. Verify the live App Store listing before relying on it.
Aggregate Rating
The stored listing reports 4.2 stars from 2,607 ratings. That total is cumulative, not a measure of recent activity.
Listing Context
The record identifies Productivity as the category and Literature & Latte as the developer. It does not prove present availability in every storefront.
Maintenance Context Is Unknown
Public listing metadata does not explain release decisions. CloneChart does not infer abandonment, a broken app, or an addressable audience from release age alone.
What a Builder Can Evaluate Next
Available Signals
Rating history, release age, category, listing copy, and screenshots can help frame product research. None of those fields alone proves demand or commercial viability.
Recorded Ratings
Aggregate Rating
Estimated Build Days
Hypotheses to Validate
Treat these generated analysis notes as research prompts. Check them against the current product and recent primary-source user feedback.
- > Difficult to navigate between projects.
- > Limited formatting options in the editor.
- > Slow sync for cloud features.
The Clone Prompt
Use this as a planning draft in your coding tool of choice. CloneChart estimates MEDIUM complexity and ~30 build days; both depend on scope and require validation.
Cursor plan preview for Scrivener: map the core Productivity workflow, choose the smallest differentiated feature set, define the data and monetization boundaries, then prototype the riskiest user journey first.This preview is public. The full Cursor prompt is returned only after mailbox verification.
Suggested Starting Stack
A generated starting point for technical evaluation, not a claim about the original app's implementation.
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Scrivener is one of 278 candidates selected from stored release-date and rating thresholds. The label is a discovery filter, not a claim that an app was abandoned or that an opportunity is proven.
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