MalangRoom

MalangRoom is a room with Malang, a soft peach-colored character you can squish, poke and flick. When something comes up that you want to say, write it right there and toss it at Malang. The keyboard stays up, so you can write the next one and toss it again, as many times as you like. ■ Play with Malang • Tap to poke. Malang hops a little and squeezes its eyes shut. • Press and hold to squish it flat. The longer you hold, the flatter it gets and the more Malang strains, and when you let go it lets out a "phew" and is back to normal. • Drag Malang around the room, push it into the edges, or flick it at the walls, where it flattens and slowly rounds out again. • Pinch or spread two fingers to squash or stretch it. Each touch has its own vibration, and a sound if you turn sound on. ■ Write and toss Tap the writing bar at the bottom and type. Malang squishes a little with every key, and its cheeks puff up as your note gets longer. Tap the arrow, or flick the writing bar up, and what you wrote crumples up and hits Malang. The keyboard stays where it is and the empty bar is ready for the next line. There's no limit on tosses, and nothing pops up in between. With the paper ball effect, each tossed note lands on the floor as a blank paper scrap: a ball, a torn piece, a folded note or a twist. Malang pushes them around, and they're gone when you finish. ■ Finish when you want Tap the moon at the top to finish. Malang says a few words, and "Let out a little more" opens an empty writing bar again. ■ Nothing you write is kept What you write is only in your iPhone's memory while you write. It's never saved and never leaves your iPhone, and a tossed note can't be brought back. If you leave the app for more than 10 minutes, unsent writing is cleared. The app switcher shows Malang instead of your words. There's no account, no login and no ads. Anonymous usage statistics (counts such as app opens, tosses and finishes, never what you write) can be turned off in Settings. ■ Free, and MalangRoom Plus Playing with Malang, writing, tossing and finishing are free, with no limit. MalangRoom Plus is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, that adds ways to dress up the room: five more colors for Malang, two textures, three toss effects (paper plane, bubble and confetti), three sounds and three paper themes. In Customize, tap any item to try it in the preview right away, and buy only if you want to keep the look. ■ Also VoiceOver, Dark Mode and Reduce Motion are supported. Sound is off until you turn it on. The app is in English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and French.