No, this isn’t an April Fool’s Day joke! The Windows version of Scrivener 3 has finally been released. So if you’re a Windows user who’s been jealous of your Mac friends using all those fancy new features, you can rejoice now.

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If you’re already using Scrivener 1, there’s going to be a bit of a learning curve. You’ll be moving to the equivalent of Mac versions 2 and 3. That’s a LOT of change. But you can run both versions for a while to ease the pain. Here’s what you need to know.

• Scrivener 3 (S3 hereafter) installs into a new directory, ‘Scrivener3’ by default. DO NOT install it into your current Scrivener directory!
• S3 has a new file format. If you open an S1 file in S3, it will make a backup of the S1 file in the same directory, and then convert the file to the new format.
• Scrivener 3 will become the default application for Scrivener files. If you click on a Scrivener file, it will open in S3. Before you install S3, make sure you have a link to the S1 program somewhere… pinned to the start menu, pinned to the taskbar, and/or a shortcut on your desktop.
• S3 does not import anything from S1, so if you’ve customized some of the global settings you’ll have to re-do them in S3.

Scrivener 3 For Windows Release

Scrivener 3.0.1.0. Add to watchlist send us an update. Buy now €53.00 Standard Licence. Buy now €45.00 Educational License. 19 screenshots: runs on: Windows 10 32/64 bit. Windows 8 32/64 bit.

I’ve been running beta versions of S3 for over a year. When I first installed the beta, I made a copy of one of my Scrivener files so that I could learn the new software. I opened it in S3 and it immediately made a backup, which I deleted because I didn’t need a backup of a copy.

I used my links to the S1 program to work with my “live” files while I climbed that learning curve. Once I was comfortable with it (meaning I would get really frustrated when I had to work in S1) I started converting my files to S3 as I needed to work with them. Eventually I converted all the remaining files to S3 and never went back to S1.

If you have a license for S1 you may be eligible for a discount on S3, depending on when you bought S1. Go to this page and download the free trial version first:

You can use the trial version for 30 days. When you’re ready to buy, run S3 and click the “Upgrade from an older version” link on the trial window. When I did that it found my license code from my S1 installation. If that doesn’t work and you can’t find your S1 license code, you can go here and ask them to email it to you.

Scrivener 3 For Windows Review

Was it worth the pain and suffering of learning the new version? Yes, absolutely. It’s a much better products. And when I do a search for “how do [do something] in scrivener”, I don’t get cranky when all the answers I find are for Mac version 3 when I’m running Windows version 1.