Nicole S.
Worst Author Purchase
Atticus was honestly my worst purchase as a writer. Formatting is impossible (God help you if you need to insert/move an image), simple things like indentations and quotes are unnecessarily complicated, limited fonts unless you go download more, slow and laggy, constantly needing to do hard refreshes, you can't toggle between panes from text input to formatting, and apparently it's a known problem that if you use them to make an epub or pdf, text-to-speech readers can't read the text. Imagine my surprise when my sister text me saying, "Why can't I listen to your book?? It sounds like it's having a stroke!!" Waste of money, would not reccomend to anyone. Get yourself a Framemaker subscription, master Microsoft Word, or just learn HTML formatting basics and do it yourself. But don't use this very expensive piece of junk. (Note: I posted my day of experience as far back as I could go, but it actually started before that when I published my first book in 2024 and continued until I tried to publish my second book late last year. I eventually had to reformat the book in Framemaker myself and rerelease it that way in early 2026.)
Response from atticus.ioJun 5, 2026
Hi Nicole, We are so sorry to hear about your experience. What you shared sounds frustrating and that’s not what we want for any of our authors. At Atticus, we're always making improvements to the program. If you’d like to share more details directly on how the program can better fit your needs, our support team is at [email protected] We take all feedback seriously, and will use it to make Atticus better for everyone in the future.