Retro Notes vs TypePress

Retro Notes turns everyday note-taking into something you actually enjoy. Beautifully designed with vintage-inspired themes, it combines the simplicity of classic journals with the power of a modern organizer — all on your iPhone and iPad. WRITE FREELY, ORGANIZE EFFORTLESSLY Create notes with rich text blocks, checklists, and tags. Organize everything into folders and nested subfolders. On iPad, use full notebooks for long-form journaling and creative projects. Pin your favorites for quick access, and find anything instantly with powerful global search across all your notes, folders, tasks, and blocks. A BLOCK FOR EVERYTHING Retro Notes goes beyond plain text. Each note is built from blocks you mix and match: • Text — Write with customizable per-note fonts. Choose from 15 beautiful typefaces including Typewriter, Georgia, Baskerville, Futura, and more. • Tasks — Interactive checklists to track your to-dos right inside your notes. • Photos & Videos — Capture memories with images and video clips. Trim videos before adding them. • Voice Memos — Record audio notes when typing isn't an option. • Locations — Pin places to your notes with interactive maps. • URLs — Save and preview web links with one tap. • Scanner — Scan documents directly into your notes using your camera. • PDF — Attach and view documents natively. • Countdown — Set visual countdown timers for events, deadlines, and milestones. • Music — Search and embed your favorite tracks from a massive catalog. • Movies — Log films with posters, ratings, runtime, and director info. • Books — Track your reading with covers, authors, and page counts. • Flights — Look up real flights with route maps, terminals, aircraft details, and live status. IMPORT FROM ANYWHERE Use the Share Extension to send text, links, images, and checklists from Browser, Mail, Messages, or any app directly into Retro Notes. Content is automatically parsed into the right blocks — URLs become link blocks, bullet points become tasks, and images get their own photo blocks. No copy-pasting needed. RETRO THEMES THAT FEEL JUST RIGHT Customize your experience with handcrafted themes that give your notes real personality. Switch between classic, dark, and colorful palettes — every element from the toolbar to the blocks adapts to your chosen theme. WIDGET SUPPORT Pin your most important note to a home screen widget for instant access. See your content at a glance without even opening the app. TIME CAPSULE Seal a note and lock it until a future date — a week, a month, or a year from now. When the time comes, it unlocks automatically. Write letters to your future self, save birthday messages, or preserve memories for later. PRIVACY FIRST Your notes stay on your device. Retro Notes uses no cloud accounts, no sign-ups, and no tracking. What you write is yours alone. BUILT FOR iPHONE AND iPAD Fully optimized for both platforms. On iPad, take advantage of larger screens with the notebook editor for long-form writing, side-by-side organization, and an expanded block canvas. AVAILABLE IN 7 LANGUAGES Use Retro Notes in English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Turkish, or Simplified Chinese. The entire interface adapts to your language preference. Privacy Policy: https://retro-notes-privacy-ege-aybek-dev.netlify.app/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

TypePress transforms your iPad, Mac and iPhone into a fully animated typewriter. No notifications. No formatting toolbars. No distractions. Just you, a sheet of paper, and the deeply satisfying rhythm of mechanical keys. Every letter you type triggers the full typewriter sequence: the key depresses, the type bar strikes the ribbon, the carriage slides left, and the paper inches upward. When you reach the end of a line, you hear the bell. Hit return and the carriage resets with a mechanical slide. It doesn't just look like a typewriter — it feels like one. The typewriter itself is a hand-drawn illustration, not a generic 3D render. The carriage is a separate component that moves independently above the body. The round keys are tappable directly on the illustration. You write on the machine, not beside it. SOUNDS THAT MAKE YOU WANT TO WRITE Four mechanical key variations rotate randomly so no two keystrokes sound identical. The carriage return bell rings with layered harmonics. The slide sweeps downward. Paper feed rolls softly. Every sound is synthesized from noise and resonance — warm, tactile, analog. Toggle them off if you prefer silence. CHOOSE YOUR TYPEFACE Seven fonts across four categories: Typewriter — Courier Prime (classic monospace) and Special Elite (worn, inky, imperfect) Monospace — Cutive Mono, Anonymous Pro, IBM Plex Mono Serif — Cutive (elegant typewriter serif) Display — Limelight (Art Deco headlines) Switch fonts from Settings and the change appears instantly on your page. Every page remembers its own font. ARCHIVE & STATS Every document is auto-saved. The Archive screen shows your complete library with word counts, dates, and text previews. Pin favorites to the top, sort pages into folders, add tags, and find anything with search. Deleted pages wait in Recently Deleted for 30 days. Your Stats section tracks total documents and lifetime words written. TWO RIBBONS Switch to red ink, type a word, switch back to black. Only the letters you type next change color, and it carries into your exports. ICLOUD SYNC & APP LOCK Turn on iCloud Sync and your pages, folders and tags follow you across iPhone, iPad and Mac. No account and no server, just your own iCloud. Lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. Both stay off until you turn them on. EXPORT YOUR PAGES Export as PDF with three paper styles: Vintage (aged parchment with typewriter imperfections), Modern (clean white), or Minimal (no decoration). Or export as plain text for editing elsewhere. Your first PDF export is free. MADE FOR MAC, IPAD AND IPHONE The typewriter sits at the bottom, the paper rises above it, and the sidebar gives you one-tap access to Write, Archive, and Settings. Nothing is hidden. Nothing requires a manual. On iPhone the carriage and paper fill the screen and a touch typewriter keyboard sits below, so a thought is never more than a few taps away. TYPEPRESS PRO After your free export, unlock unlimited PDF and text exports, extra sounds, typewriter skins and wide pages with TypePress Pro: · Monthly — $2.99/month · Yearly — $19.99/year (save 44%) · Lifetime — $49.99 one-time Your subscription works across your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Manage or cancel anytime through your Apple ID settings. WHO THIS IS FOR Journalers who want a ritual, not an app. Poets who want constraint. Novelists doing morning pages. Students taking notes without tabs pulling them away. Anyone who has ever thought: I just want to write. TypePress doesn’t auto-correct. It doesn’t suggest. It doesn’t count your streaks, and it only syncs to iCloud if you turn that on. It gives you a machine, a page, and the sound of your own words landing. Start typing. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/