Very close to typewriting experience
Out of all the apps on the app store, this is the closest you will get with a seamless experience of typewriting with modern tools. 10/10
Typewriter is a joke
I wanted blank pages, not silly pages to click on ,oh and if you have an IPAD do not buy, this thing works “best” with an external keyboard, so bought and deleted within 15 minutes. Give me my money back since you failed to tell the consumer this “problem”
Useless for practical use (printing)
There’s no reason that the app can’t export the image as a lossless PNG. Instead, all we get are lossy low resolution JPG files if we want to print what we’ve written.
The other features do realistically simulate the experience of typing on a typewriter, which I do enjoy. Sadly the lack of decent printing options completely cripples this app.
The other features do realistically simulate the experience of typing on a typewriter, which I do enjoy. Sadly the lack of decent printing options completely cripples this app.
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Me
Horrible app can't backspace
A good replacement for messy ribbons
This is a quality replacement for an old smith-corona sky writer typewriter, that doesn't require soaking used ribbons in India ink to get some more life out of them, and allows you the experience of hearing the bells at the end of a line or the strike of the keys. It's simple to use and does exactly what an old typewriter did. And while i wouldn't change the fact that the delete key doesn't delete, but acts as the backspace key does on an old typewriter, some people may have a hard time with that. You can type over letters just as you would have done, or you can backspace and use some white-out and retype over without inhaling noxious vapors or getting splotches. So for all you anachronistic folks out there that wax nostalgic for the typewriter experience without all those "issues", this may be the app for you. I recommend it. By the way, there is no spellcheck in this version and i don't know if there's going to be an update to change that, but i hope not. The way the app allows you to just continue typing, without all those other distractions is very helpful to people accustomed to working on the old technology. But i wanted to mention it for those that rely on that current technology. Thank you to the developers of this app!
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Fun
First, I'm not reviewing the technical aspects of the app because, as far as I'm concerned, the fun of using it outweighs all that for me.
I had forgotten how relaxing it was to get into flow on a manual typewriter. And the music of its operation-the rhythmic clack of the keys, the warning bell at the end of the line, the carriage return. And now I can have all that without messing about with ribbons and carbon paper and sticking keys. Along with my iPad mini and Zagg keyboard case, I'm all set.
And remember back, how that annoying writer brought a portable typewriter to the local coffee house ...
I had forgotten how relaxing it was to get into flow on a manual typewriter. And the music of its operation-the rhythmic clack of the keys, the warning bell at the end of the line, the carriage return. And now I can have all that without messing about with ribbons and carbon paper and sticking keys. Along with my iPad mini and Zagg keyboard case, I'm all set.
And remember back, how that annoying writer brought a portable typewriter to the local coffee house ...
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Great writing tool
This is one of the greatest writing tools I have found. Unlike Hanx writer, which has a fancier interface, Typingwriter doesn't allow you to make anything more than rudimentary edits. This can be a very effective tool for someone trying to pound their way through a first draft. It really does replicate the advantage of writing on a manual typewriter, rather than just offering a gimmicky interface.
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Chuck Slap
This is brilliant. The perfect antidote to my obsessive reworking of the bits I've already written. The look and sound of it is wonderful and its a real writers tool, unlike the competing apps, which are not well suited to serious work. Thank you!
LOVE THIS APP🐞
OMG ABSOLUTELY MY NEW MOST FAVORITE!!! Have Hanx when I updated ipad to iOS 8 Hanx stopped working for me. Thought that was awful until I was reading some comments and found others that use and recommend this app. Bought it, love it and now this is without a doubt my new favorite. I highly recommend Typing Writer.😀😊😘
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Fun... and useful!
This app is incredibly fun. I'm a writer, and I love to change my writing medium to change my mood and tone and experiment with my approaches to writing. So I handwrite and keyboard type, and yes, I own a 1966 blue Royal manual non-electric "portable" typewriter which I pull out when I really want to change the mood. But that "portable" typewriter" is about 20 pounds and I rarely have it with me. This app is a new and different way of writing, somewhere between the iPad writing I'm used to and going down to my basement to pull out the real deal steel beast. It's fun, but I'm also writing real drafts on it. I like that it, just like the real deal, makes me slow down my typing, focus on each word, take greater care with marks I know I can't just delete -- the marks will be there forever, even with white out applied, or over-typed. If you're a writer and want to experiment with a new way of thinking while you write, this is a must have. For everyone else, it's just darn fun. :)
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Big on charm, short on usefulness
I feel ambivalent about this app, which fondly recreates the experience of using a traditional typewriter, but does so in a way that, I fear, will render the app practically useless to writers — even those, like me, who began our careers pecking out letters on a manual Remington or the like.
For all the charm and nostalgia this app evokes, how many of us REALLY want to be thrown back to the era when we were obliged to resort to over-typing, crossing-out or brushing White-Out over our typing mistakes? Do we absolutely need to foreswear a feature that changes "dont" to "don't" for us automatically?
If the developers could see their way to allowing us to toggle on or off some of the capabilities we've come to rely on (and enjoy) in the digital era, so that we could choose for ourselves what kind of balance to strike between tradition and convenience, this might turn out to be a fun and useful app for at least a few of us.
For all the charm and nostalgia this app evokes, how many of us REALLY want to be thrown back to the era when we were obliged to resort to over-typing, crossing-out or brushing White-Out over our typing mistakes? Do we absolutely need to foreswear a feature that changes "dont" to "don't" for us automatically?
If the developers could see their way to allowing us to toggle on or off some of the capabilities we've come to rely on (and enjoy) in the digital era, so that we could choose for ourselves what kind of balance to strike between tradition and convenience, this might turn out to be a fun and useful app for at least a few of us.
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