Comparison

Type Notes vs Carriage

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

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About

Type Notes

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.

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Carriage

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Carriage turns your iPhone into a typewriter. Half-fold an iPhone Duo like a little laptop and the page stands up on the top half while a full typewriter keyboard waits on the bottom. On any other iPhone, the page and the keys share one screen. Open it and your iPhone goes quiet. Every key lands with the clack of a real, recorded typewriter, the bell rings near the margin, and you push the carriage home at the end of each line. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO • Half-fold it like a tiny laptop: the page on the top half, a full typewriter keyboard on the bottom. • Hold it like a book and your draft becomes a two-page spread to read. • Close it and read on the outer screen. Fold it shut mid-sentence and your page is saved; open it and you're back where you were. • On every other iPhone, Carriage is a lovely pocket machine. MADE TO HELP YOU FOCUS • Set it up once and your iPhone silences notifications whenever Carriage is open. Carriage walks you through it in a few taps. • Tap the moon and everything but the page and keys fades away. • Add Carriage's Focus Filter to any Focus, and the page clears itself whenever that Focus is on. • It types like a typewriter: no delete (X-OUT strikes through with an x) and the keys stop at the margin until you return the carriage. Prefer backspace and automatic line wrap? They're a setting away. A BEAUTIFUL MACHINE • Round, chrome-ringed keys that press down under your fingers, with a tap you can feel on every stroke. • Real typewriters, recorded: every key, the space bar, the bell near the margin and the carriage sliding home. A 1950s Italian portable comes with Carriage; three more machines come with the unlock. • Ink that sits on the paper like real type, a little uneven from letter to letter. • Four paper stocks, from crisp bond to onion skin, four ribbon colours and five machine finishes, from seafoam to cherry. Night desk for light ink on dark paper. • Push the paper to return the carriage, like the real thing, and feel every part of it: the keys, the ratchet, the bell. • Recorded rain on the window or a fire in the grate under the keys. A warm desk lamp that follows the hour. • Engrave your name on the brass plate. YOUR WRITING, KEPT SAFE • Saves as you type and syncs with iCloud. • Keeps a plain Markdown copy of every page in Files. • Version history for every page, notebooks for projects and a journal page for each day. • Daily word goals, streaks and a calendar of every day you wrote. • Export a PDF that looks typed, or Markdown and plain text. Print it, share it as an image or send it to Notes. No subscription. No ads. No accounts. Nothing collected. Your first 5,000 words are free, with every paper and ribbon. Unlock Carriage once for unlimited words and every machine, forever.

Screenshots

Type Notes4 screens
Carriage4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Type Notes at 17.0 against Carriage's 27.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 and Carriage 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 — 5.0 for Type Notes against 5.0 for Carriage. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Type Notes versus Carriage: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterType NotesCarriage
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyDailyDaily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJesus manuel CurreriJustin Lee

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Type Notes

One-time1
  • Type Notes+$1.99
1 purchases

Carriage

One-time1
  • Unlock Carriage$4.99

Questions

Is Type Notes free?
Type Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Carriage free?
Carriage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Type Notes or Carriage?
Type Notes and Carriage are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Type Notes or Carriage have ads?
Neither Type Notes nor Carriage shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Type Notes or Carriage?
Type Notes ships an update daily, and Carriage daily. Most recently, Type Notes was updated on October 29, 2026 and Carriage on October 31, 2026.

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