atticus.ioReviews of atticus.io

I recently wrote a review explaining the flaws I found using this product. Potential crashing and loss of your book using "copy and Paste" I have discovered a new, more insidious issue. The software will randomly misspell a word after importing a word document. It took "July 12" and made it "Shelly 12th". It took "Original" and made it "oriMarilouI" Both Shelly and Marilou are characters in the book. These misspellings occurred AFTER proofreading . They occurred when the software exported the document for PUBLICATION! My experience with this software has been horrible. Formatting issues with MS word, import/export issues, random misspellings, No copy and paste. Potential unrecoverable data loss. I am an ex-software developer. I would never release this product in it's current condition. I make this review to help the developers not complain.

This is a great product with outstanding support. I bought and downloaded Atticus two days ago and spent a few hours working on a small pamphlet. Yesterday I formatted a 300 page book. Not bad. The interface is very intuitive and the results very professional. I had one technical question that I raised on Saturday afternoon and had a very helpful answer in 3 hours. The response was by a real person, not some AI bot. I could not be more pleased. I highly recommend Atticus.

Atticus is decent enough at producing a very basic layout for your paperback or non-fiction book; there are nice font choices, it will look professional. But it does struggle with images, and if you've got a lot in your book, and have an idea where you want them, Atticus won't play; you're actually way better off with Word. It also struggles with indented copy (e.g. a letter or something, maybe); it just makes it look bad on the page. Also, an update last year (2024) rendered the software virtually useless; it was so excruciatingly slow as to make it unworkable. They've yet to sort mine out despite tons of troubleshooting. On the plus-side, Atticus' help is top-notch. They get back to you very quickly, and do their best to sort your problem out. But often they cannot due to the failings of the software. I think most positive reviews come from these self-publishing gurus with massive platforms, who probably get a freebie deal. If you have the money to spare, go for it, but if you're really thinking about it, and mulling if the spend is worth it, I wouldn't.

I’m a fairly new author and I really struggled writing in word then moving to a formatting software to spend weeks killing myself to get the format correct. Atticus solved this problem and changed my experience completely! The software is thoughtfully put together for us authors. The customer support is amazing.

I do my paperback layout in a previously purchased layout software, then copy and paste to Atticus for my e-book. Atticus has helped me find so many mistakes in my layout! I can’t thank you enough for creating Atticus!

Response time is fast and communication is clear. The solution worked. Great service, great product, supported by great people!

Can you believe this? In a moment of genius, I deleted the wrong (completed and selling) book from my Rocket library. I didn't remember doing it, when I did it or how I did it. I hadn't taken a back-up, all I had was the title and the cover image. I thought it might have been a couple of weeks since I'd been using the programme - that's all I could give to Support. Very intelligent. Unbelievably, I received an email 5 days later to say the tech team had found it, and there it was sitting in the library. Exceptional customer service and support!

Atticus deserves a gold medal for how flexible they made this program. I understood it wasn't set up to do a lot. It works perfect for basic book creation. But I had to try to do a very large cookbook through this software and while not perfect (no way to upload columns) and some other glitchy issues. Atticus got the job done. Just got my phycial copies today and they are beautiful. The struggle was worth it. And our sweet 101 year old Ms. Betty, is simply tickled with the results. I had a lot of options when choosing formatting softwear, I am certain I choose the correct one. Thank you so much to the staff who helped me get this done and I cannot wait to do more "not standard" formatting with Atticus Don’t limit yourself just because the software isn’t flashy. If you think it through your project can come to life. --