Hanx Writer: Tom Hanks' app ode to the typewriter

24 Aug 2014 • freep.com

Tom Hanks has a new app out. You read that correctly, not a movie, but an app. It’s called the Hanx Writer, and it is a technological testament to a serious disease that afflicts the poor man. Call it typewriter-itis.

Hanx Writer turns your iPad into an old-school manual typewriter. It replicates the thwack-thwack sound of metal stamping on paper and the ding-clunk-fripp of reaching the end of one line and starting a new one. The app is free in Apple’s App Store, though additional typewriter fonts and sounds cost $2.99 each.

Seriously?