Tom Hanks has a thing for typewriters. He gives old, classic manual machines as gifts. Now he's giving the typewriter to the mobile device world via an app called the Hanx Writer.
It replicates that characteristic sound of metal stamping on paper and even the whiplash sound of the carriage return ending 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.
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