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Life & fun · August 14, 2014

Hanx Writer

What if Tom Hanks made a typewriter app. Oh wait, he did.

Hanx Writer launched on August 14, 2014 with 85 votes, #471 of 2,208 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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What it does

Download Hanx Writer by Hitcents.com, Inc. on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Hanx Writer.

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS. This app is really close to perfect and I think with a more committed developer it could be the definitive typewriter app on the market. Heck, if they really made it good it might even make a suitable replacement to the way typing on a typewriter feels. I must confess that I paid the $10 to get the Signature Collection which includes all the typewriters and text options that you can use to make the limited function of Hanx Writer a little more useful. I am a writer myself and own a couple typewriters of my own, and I was looking for a way to replicate that feeling of freedom that comes from writing on an actual machine.…from apps.apple.com

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