Comparison

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.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Read diverse chat stories
  • Create custom texting narratives
  • Customize characters and profiles
  • Add photos, videos, and audio
  • Share stories with friends
  • Follow favorite writers
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Character creation and reuse
  • Multiple scene types (chat, title, quote)
  • Music synchronization for lyric videos
  • Interactive story playback
  • Character aliases and avatar customization
Features
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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).

Screenshots

Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker4 screens
TypeStory4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker versus TypeStory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText Yourself-Chat Story MakerTypeStory
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (15K ratings)4.5 (3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.5% of reviews62.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15K — better3K
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size209 MB5 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBest Butter LLCMatteo D'Ignazio

Customer experience

Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker

All ratings14,918 ratings
Positive83.9%
Neutral5.2%
Negative10.9%
Written reviews1,243 reviews
Positive46.5%
Neutral6.7%
Negative46.8%

TypeStory

All ratings2,952 ratings
Positive85.4%
Neutral5.7%
Negative8.9%
Written reviews460 reviews
Positive62.6%
Neutral11.3%
Negative26.1%

User reviews

Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker

From 15K App Store ratings

What 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 ratings

What 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

9 purchases

Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker

Subscriptions9
  • 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
1 purchases

TypeStory

One-time1
  • TypeStory PRO$2.99

Questions

Is Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker free?
Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TypeStory free?
TypeStory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker or TypeStory?
TypeStory is rated higher. Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker averages 4.4 out of 5 from 15K ratings, while TypeStory averages 4.5 from 3K ratings.
Do Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker or TypeStory have ads?
Neither Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker nor TypeStory shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker or TypeStory?
Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker ships an update monthly, and TypeStory every 2 months. Most recently, Text Yourself-Chat Story Maker was updated on November 8, 2026 and TypeStory on November 7, 2026.

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