Comparison

Future Self Capsule vs Typewright

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

Head to head
About

Future Self Capsule

Features
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Future Self Capsule is a "Slow-Tech" app for sending heartfelt messages, photos, voice notes, and files to your future self. No endless feeds, no distractions — just a private vault of sealed memories waiting to be opened. CREATE MEANINGFUL MEMORIES • Write text messages to your future self • Capture private photos that never touch your camera roll • Record voice notes with your thoughts and feelings • Attach important files and documents TRULY PRIVATE • All content stored locally on your device • Photos taken with our private camera bypass your gallery • Choose to "lock away" photos and files — removing them from your device until the capsule opens • No cloud storage, no accounts required SET YOUR OWN TIMELINE • Choose when your capsule unlocks: 1 month, 6 months, 1 year, 5 years, or any custom date • Watch the beautiful countdown timer as your memories wait to be revealed • Receive notifications when your capsules are ready to open REDISCOVER YOUR MEMORIES • Relive moments exactly as you captured them • Export photos and files back to your device • Share opened capsules with friends and family Perfect for: • Sending birthday messages to yourself • Preserving memories for future milestones • Creating time-delayed surprises • Journaling your thoughts for future reflection • Storing precious voice recordings • Keeping important documents safely sealed Time Capsule helps you slow down and appreciate the moments that matter. Start sealing memories today.

About

Typewright

Features
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Typewright is a typewriter you can actually write on. Every key you press strikes a page. The carriage tracks across the paper, the bell rings when the line runs out, and the platen rolls the sheet up as you go. Backspace works the way it did on a real machine — you can take a character back, but you cannot go rearrange a paragraph you wrote an hour ago. That constraint is the point. It is why the words keep coming. FOUR MACHINES Classic Manual is free and always will be: black steel, a fan of typebars, cream keys. The Decades Collection adds three more, each with its own mechanism, its own sound, and its own feel — Riviera '65, a two-tone sixties manual with round glass keycaps; Golfball '72, an electric with a chrome type ball that hops and twists across a fixed carriage; and Wordline '84, a daisy-wheel electronic with an amber LCD that mirrors the line you are typing. Every machine ships in four factory colorways. PAPER AND RIBBON Nine paper stocks, from clean bond to lined, graph, aged parchment, and a red-and-blue-bordered airmail, drawn rather than photographed so they stay crisp at any size. A ribbon lever switches ink between black, blue and red, with an underline latch — exactly like the real thing, and your ribbon choices are saved with the text. A REAL PAGE Pages are A4 or Letter and behave like paper: the sheet fills, turns, and holds a fixed number of lines. Reading mode lays the whole document out as printed pages you can select, copy and search. EXPORT THAT LOOKS TYPED PDF export embeds the real typewriter fonts, draws the paper behind the text, and can add the slight rotation, doubled ink and softened opacity of a page that went through an actual machine. Plain text, print and style-preserving copy are there too, plus a full-library backup file you can re-import later. YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS Documents live on your device. Turn on iCloud sync and they follow you to your other Apple devices through your own private iCloud — there is no account to make, no server of ours, no analytics, and nothing to collect. Typewright works entirely offline. Four typewriter fonts. Synthesized mechanical sound and haptics. Hardware keyboard support on iPad. No subscription — the Decades Collection is a single lifetime purchase, restorable any time.

Screenshots

Future Self Capsule4 screens
Typewright4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Future Self Capsule at none against Typewright's 1. Future Self Capsule also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Typewright's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Typewright sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Future Self Capsule asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 2 level
Future Self Capsule versus Typewright: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFuture Self CapsuleTypewright
PriceFreeFree
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCeltic Wards, LLCIdeja 3000 doo Uzice

In-app purchases

None

Future Self Capsule

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Typewright

One-time1
  • Decades Collection$3.99

Questions

Is Future Self Capsule free?
Future Self Capsule is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Typewright free?
Typewright is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Future Self Capsule or Typewright have ads?
Future Self Capsule shows ads; Typewright does not.

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