Comparison

My Typewriter vs Mi Speaks

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

My Typewriter

Experience the charm of a vintage typewriter with modern word processing features. This app offers authentic sounds and visuals, with options to save, print, and export your work. Optimized for social media, it's perfect for poets and writers seeking a unique creative tool.

Highlights
  • Authentic vintage typewriter look and feel
  • Underwood-inspired keystrokes and bell sounds
  • Randomized ink patterns
  • Save, print, and export creations
  • Optimized page size for social media
  • Delete mistakes and manual cursor movement
  • Font randomizer and vintage font selection
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My Typewriter combines the look and feel of working on a vintage typewriter with the convenience of a modern day word processor. With My Typewriter you have a typewriter to-go right in the palm of your hand. From the Underwood-inspired keystrokes and bell to the randomized ink patterns, this app was designed with the authentic experience of the classic writing machine in mind. Anything you create on My Typewriter can be saved, printed, exported, and uploaded to any platform you would like. Furthermore, the page size of My Typewriter has been optimized for social media posting to give your work the highest aesthetic quality on what’s becoming the chosen platform for the modern day poet. Some advantages My Typewriter has over other typewriter apps are the ability to delete mistakes, a longer page to be better-suited for long-form works, a font randomizer, a selection of vintage fonts to choose from, and the ability to move the cursor around manually in order to play with poetic form or to function like a traditional word-processor. We hope the next wave of Kerouacs, Plaths, and Hemingways use My Typewriter to create their masterworks just as we hope anyone with the inkling to write finds true joy from this virtual typewriter. Writers write, so get to it! Developed by Winnona Partners, LLC https://winnonapartners.com

About

Mi Speaks

Convert text to speech and read along with highlighted words. Import content from various sources, including images and PDFs, for offline playback. Premium features offer cross-device syncing, unlimited input, and audio file sharing.

Highlights
  • Text-to-speech conversion
  • Import text from images and PDFs
  • Background playback
  • Highlight spoken words
  • Offline compatibility
  • Cross-device sync (Premium)
  • Share audio files (Premium)
Features
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Mi Speaks reads your books, articles and documents aloud in voices that sound genuinely human — generated on your device, never in the cloud. STUDIO VOICES — PREMIUM Twenty-eight neural voices, American and British, male and female. They run entirely on your iPhone: nothing you read is ever uploaded, and they work in airplane mode. Blend two voices together to make one of your own. READ ALONG Every word is highlighted as it is spoken. Import a PDF and you can follow along on the real page, with the word lit where it actually sits — not a transcription of your book, but your book. FIND YOUR PLACE Jump straight to any chapter of an imported PDF. Mi Speaks remembers where you stopped, on every device. Skip from chapter to chapter right from the lock screen. BEFORE YOU PUT THE PHONE DOWN Studio Voices need no connection once they are installed, but generating them uses the graphics processor, and iOS will not run that while an app is off screen. Prepare Full Document renders every sentence up front — after that there is nothing left to generate, so it plays to the end with the screen locked, in another app, or on a flight. And if you haven't prepared a document, reading still doesn't stop: any passage that isn't ready yet is read in your own system voice, and Mi Speaks offers to prepare the rest for next time. FREE, WITH NO TIME LIMIT + Read documents of any length + Import text, PDFs, photos of pages, and anything from the share sheet + Live word highlighting, background playback, lock screen controls + PDF page view and chapter navigation + Keep 3 documents in your library, each remembering where you left off + Resume Reading widget on the home and lock screen + Works completely offline PREMIUM ADDS — IN-APP PURCHASE * Studio Voices — all 28, on device * An unlimited library, in sync across iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch * Every playback speed from 0.5x to 2x, plus Turbo * Export anything to an audio file you can keep Premium is an optional in-app purchase: a 7-day free trial, then a Monthly or Yearly auto-renewing subscription. There is also a one-time Lifetime purchase if you would rather not subscribe. Studio Voices need a one-time download of about 325 MB. This uses Apple's Standard Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

My Typewriter4 screens
Mi Speaks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Mi Speaks at Free against My Typewriter's $1.99. Mi Speaks also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (100% vs 60%). My Typewriter's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (133 vs 1). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Mi Speaks is free to download; My Typewriter costs $1.99 up front. Mi Speaks sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. My Typewriter asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mi Speaks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Typewriter has 133 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of My Typewriter's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mi Speaks's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Typewriter ships an update every 2 months, Mi Speaks fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
My Typewriter versus Mi Speaks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy TypewriterMi Speaks
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (133 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings133 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS10.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB70 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperEcho GarrettBlaine Miller

Customer experience

My Typewriter

All ratings133 ratings
Positive72.9%
Neutral3.8%
Negative23.3%
Written reviews90 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral5.6%
Negative34.4%

Mi Speaks

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

My Typewriter

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App crashes frequently, especially when saving
  • Data loss when app crashes mid-typing
  • Saved canvases display cut off or out of view
  • Keyboard input not synced properly
  • Text overwrites or misaligns during editing
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  • Line break functionality inconsistent
  • App freezes on device rotation
  • Paste functionality not working
  • Cannot load multiple pages for continuous typing

Requested features

15 requests
  • Bluetooth/external keyboard support
  • Sound toggle/mute option
  • Multiple page support
  • Autosave functionality
  • Copy and paste text capability
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  • Export as editable text file (not just image)
  • Different background/paper options
  • Dark mode or inverted colors
  • Spellcheck and advanced editing tools
  • User guide and in-app help documentation
  • Custom canvas/background import
  • Different export dimensions (Instagram square)
  • Watermark option
  • Red ink ribbon option
  • Landscape orientation support

Mi Speaks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

My Typewriter

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Mi Speaks

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is My Typewriter free?
My Typewriter costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mi Speaks free?
Mi Speaks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, My Typewriter or Mi Speaks?
Mi Speaks is rated higher. My Typewriter averages 4.0 out of 5 from 133 ratings, while Mi Speaks averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do My Typewriter or Mi Speaks have ads?
Neither My Typewriter nor Mi Speaks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Typewriter or Mi Speaks?
My Typewriter ships an update every 2 months, and Mi Speaks fortnightly. Most recently, My Typewriter was updated on October 29, 2026 and Mi Speaks on October 26, 2026.

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