Strange comparison. Scrivener is for writing books, Vellum for publishing, even if scrivener has a publish option. But they rather complement each other. Scrivener is incredible value for money.
It should have been easy, but the autonumbering features didn't work as advertised and I ended up with something that is probably a hack that relies on some bugs.
It's good VFM, but considering its audience it's also one of the most user-hostile pieces of software I've ever used. [1]
There's far too much "Yes it does that but it's not designed for it so keep your expectations low" for comfort.
Either include features and make them professional, or don't include them at all. I'd happily pay two or three times as much for something that does all the things it sorta kinda implies it does but you know actually not really.
Vellum does almost nothing in comparison except produce a limited range of beautiful books. But perhaps that may be of some interest to writers?
[1] TBF it's far better than Calibre. But that has the excuse of being free.
> Vellum does almost nothing in comparison except produce a limited range of beautiful books.
Exactly. That's all I want. Hopefully a higher price means they can live on that alone.
And they have fonts which not everyone in the world is using. Maybe Scrivener does too; haven't checked.
But maybe this will start a flame war: Guy Kawasaki recommends Adobe InDesign. To hell with monthly fees, so no.
Doing both at once is Vellum's sweet spot.
If you don't want to pay subscriptions, I've heard Affinity Publisher is a good option.
It sounds like the other product has tools for typesetting and layout, which are tools for publishing your finished work.
A writer's output are manuscripts, works of art.
A publisher's output is a commercial offering of books, a business.
[1] https://askanydifference.com/difference-between-author-and-p...