Comparison

Emotion vs Type Notes

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

Head to head
About

Emotion

This app offers a distraction-free writing experience with a vintage typewriter aesthetic. It features unique themes, mechanical keystroke sounds, and tools to build a daily writing habit. All content is saved offline and can be shared as PDFs.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free writing interface
  • Vintage typewriter themes
  • Mechanical keystroke sound and feel
  • Daily writing streak tracking
  • Offline functionality
  • PDF export and sharing
Features
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Emotion is a distraction-free, aesthetic typewriter for your daily thoughts. No feeds, no notifications, no clutter — just a page and a keyboard, styled after real vintage typewriters. Pick a machine, load the page, and write. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Emote your life daily — a calm space built for one thing: writing • Three hand-picked typewriter themes — Study Lamp, Floral Pink, and Forest Green — each with its own vintage machine, ink color, and paper • Real mechanical keystroke sound and feel with every letter you type • Daily writing streak and word-count tracking to help you build the habit • Every page autosaves as you type — nothing to lose, nothing to save manually • Print or share any page as a beautifully styled PDF • Works completely offline — everything stays on your device, always

About

Type Notes

Experience the tactile feel of a vintage typewriter for your digital notes. Enjoy realistic sounds, haptics, and a charming interface for journaling, letters, and everyday writing. Customize your writing experience with various typewriters and papers, and share your creations in unique formats.

Highlights
  • Realistic typewriter sounds and haptics
  • Customizable typewriters and papers
  • Share notes as typed sheets, envelopes, or postcards
  • Archive with folders, tags, and rubber stamps
  • Import from Apple Notes, text, and Markdown
  • Export to Markdown and share via extension
  • Private by design with no ads or tracking
Features
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A real typewriter for your notes. Every key clacks. The carriage glides across the page, the bell rings at the end of the line, and a warm desk lamp lights your words late at night. Type Notes turns your iPhone, iPad and Mac into a beautiful vintage typewriter, made for journaling, letters, poems and everyday notes. FEEL EVERY KEYSTROKE • Real typewriter sounds and crisp haptics on every key • The carriage moves, the typebars strike, the bell rings at the margin • Roll the paper up and down by hand and hear the platen click • Rip a page out with a quick swipe to send it to the Trash • The light on your desk follows the time of day, and the lamp switches on at nightfall 12 TYPEWRITERS, 16 PAPERS Pick your mood: cream, onionskin, kraft, notebook, legal pad, graph, airmail, love letter, recipe card, midnight, washi, blueprint and more, plus seasonal stationery for autumn and Christmas. Then pick the machine: Classic, Rossa, Mint, Noir, Gold, Turquoise… SEAL IT WITH WAX Share any page as a typed sheet, an envelope closed with a red wax seal, or a postcard with its own stamp. Send it as an image, a PDF, a video or a GIF. BEAUTIFULLY FILED • A classic archive with folders, #tags and recent pages • Rubber stamps: Urgent, Confidential, Draft, Sent, Done, Idea • Search across all your pages • Version history and daily backups, so nothing is ever lost BRING YOUR NOTES WITH YOU • Import from Apple Notes, text and Markdown files • Export to Markdown, or share pages with other Type Notes users • Save to Type Notes from any app with the share extension • Add pages with Siri and Shortcuts PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Your pages stay on your devices and sync through your own private iCloud, with your text encrypted. FREE TO WRITE Type Notes is free, with three classic typewriters, six papers and three envelopes to try. Type Notes+ unlocks every typewriter, every paper and unlimited envelopes, with one payment. Yours forever. No subscription. Family Sharing included. Slow down. Hear the keys. Write something today.

Screenshots

Emotion4 screens
Type Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Emotion at none against Type Notes's 1. Emotion also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Type Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Emotion asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Emotion against 5.0 for Type Notes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Emotion versus Type Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmotionType Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRishav KantJesus manuel Curreri

Customer experience

Emotion

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Type Notes

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Emotion

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Type Notes

One-time1
  • Type Notes+$1.99

Questions

Is Emotion free?
Emotion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Type Notes free?
Type Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Emotion or Type Notes?
Emotion and Type Notes are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Emotion or Type Notes have ads?
Neither Emotion nor Type Notes shows ads.

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