Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker vs TypeStory
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker
Create and read engaging chat stories across various genres. Design your own texting narratives with customizable characters, media, and backgrounds. Share your creations with friends or discover stories from other writers.
- Read diverse chat stories
- Create custom texting narratives
- Customize characters and profiles
- Add photos, videos, and audio
- Share stories with friends
- Follow favorite writers
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Discover entertaining stories, talented writers, and new worlds to explore. Read original fictional stories across a variety of genres including comedy, horror, drama, romance, mystery, and more. Explore stories chapter by chapter, follow your favorite writers, or bring your own ideas to life by creating and publishing stories for the community. Access to story content and creation tools is included with premium access. • Explore a growing collection of original stories across multiple genres. • Discover comedy, horror, drama, romance, mystery, and many other categories. • Read stories chapter by chapter and discover new authors and creators. • Create your own original stories and organize them into chapters. • Personalize your stories with characters, images, videos, audio, and other creative elements. • Save your stories and share your writing. • Save your favorite stories and easily return to the stories you enjoy. Not sure what kind of story you want to read today? Explore different categories and discover your next favorite story. PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION A Text Story subscription is required to access premium content and features. Subscription options may include: • Weekly subscription – 3-day free trial, then $4.99 per week • Monthly subscription – 3-day free trial, then $9.99 per month • Annual subscription – 3-day free trial, then $49.99 per year Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the applicable subscription price. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal can be turned off from your Apple ID Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when a subscription is purchased, where applicable. Privacy Policy: https://bestbutterllc.wordpress.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://bestbutterllc.wordpress.com/terms
TypeStory
This app helps you craft stories by organizing characters, dialogues, and scenes. Create interactive narratives with music synchronization and customizable character elements. Unlock full potential with a PRO upgrade.
- Character creation and reuse
- Multiple scene types (chat, title, quote)
- Music synchronization for lyric videos
- Interactive story playback
- Character aliases and avatar customization
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TypeStory is a tool for writing stories. Turn your ideas into a story creating characters, dialogues and scene titles. CHARACTERS Add characters and reuse them in different stories. You can also add aliases to make minor changes to your characters, like changing the name or the avatar. SCENES Your story is divided into scenes, there are different scenes you can choose. — Conversation Conversation between characters in the form of a chat — Title A fullscreen view with text and/or picture — Quote A quote/monologue from one particular character MUSIC Sync music with messages to create a lyric video in a chat style INTERACTIVE Your story is interactive, tap on the screen to control the story playback. TypeStory PRO Free version has some limitations: • Limited number of messages and scenes • Watermark applied to stories Unlock all the features of the app with TypeStory PRO (in-app purchase).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: TypeStory at free with in-app purchases against Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker's subscription. TypeStory also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 47%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker's advantage is ratings volume (15K vs 3K). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and TypeStory sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker against 4.5 for TypeStory. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15K and 3K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 47% of Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker's written reviews are positive against 63% of TypeStory's.
Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker ships an update monthly, TypeStory every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker | TypeStory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (15K ratings) | 4.5 (3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.5% of reviews | 62.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | 3K |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 209 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Best Butter LLC | Matteo D'Ignazio |
Customer experience
Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker
TypeStory
User reviews
Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker
From 15K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Realistic and engaging stories
- 💡 Ability to create and publish own stories
- 🤗 Fun and entertaining content
- 🎨 Customization options for stories
Room to improve
- 💰 Paywall to access full stories
- 🤔 Unclear free vs. premium features
- 🐛 Glitches and bugs in the app
- 🤯 Frustrating to be forced to write reviews
TypeStory
From 3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💻 Realistic texting experience
- 🎨 Ability to customize characters
- 🧠 Helps with creative writing
- 🤑 Affordable one-time purchase
- ✨ Versatile and fun to use
Room to improve
- 🔒 Limited free features
- 💸 Paywall for more messages and projects
- 🔢 Restrictive message and project limits
- 🌐 Only available in English
Bugs and requests
Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker
Reported bugs
3 issues- Incomplete or missing story text
- Crashes and freezes when trying to publish stories
- Inconsistent behavior when changing character details
Requested features
4 requests- Add more free story content
- Improve story publishing and sharing features
- Implement a family-friendly mode
- Fix issues with background image uploads
TypeStory
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes when switching between scenes
- Deleted stories cannot be recovered
Requested features
4 requests- Add video support
- Increase free message and project limits
- Implement multiple language options
- Allow customization of chat bubble colors
In-app purchases
Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker
- Weekly Trial3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Weekly Pro Trial3 Days trial$6.997 Days
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- Lite Weekly3 Days trial$9.997 Days
- Monthly subscription3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Classic Weekly3 Days trial$19.997 Days
- Lite Yearly3 Days trial2 variants$49.991 Year
- Text Story Maker3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Lite Yearly3 Days trial$99.991 Year
TypeStory
- TypeStory PRO$2.99
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