Quietleaf vs Typewright
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Quietleaf
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Quietleaf is a calm, minimalist writing app for private notes, journaling, reading notes, and the thoughts you want to keep. Most note-taking apps keep asking for moreβmore organization, more features, more systems. Quietleaf is built on a different idea. A quiet place to write. No accounts. No feeds. No dashboards. No unnecessary clutter. Just open the app, write, and return to your thoughts whenever you need them. Whether youβre collecting ideas from a book, writing a journal entry, saving a recipe, drafting something important, or simply thinking on the page, Quietleaf stays out of your way. When a word interrupts your flow, look it up with the built-in dictionary and continue writing without leaving your note. Features: β’ Private notes stored on your device β’ Calm, distraction-free writing β’ Journal entries and everyday notes β’ Search across note titles and contents β’ Spaces for simple organization β’ Built-in dictionary lookup β’ Rich text formatting β’ No account required β’ Export your notes anytime Quietleaf is for people who believe less can be more. Because the best notebook isnβt the one with the most features. Itβs the one you keep coming back to. A notebook that doesnβt pull you away.
Typewright
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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 β 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 β 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 β 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 β 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 β the Decades Collection is a single lifetime purchase, restorable any time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quietleaf at none against Typewright's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Typewright sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Quietleaf asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Quietleaf | Typewright |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No β better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad β better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 β better | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Billy Lau | Ideja 3000 doo Uzice |
In-app purchases
Quietleaf
No in-app purchases
Typewright
- Decades Collection$3.99









