Inkbell: Typewriter

Inkbell is a typewriter in your pocket. Roll in a sheet of paper, press a key and hear it strike. The paper moves as you type, the bell rings when you reach the margin, and what you end up with looks like a page that came out of a real machine.

It is a writing app for people who like their words to feel like something. Write poems, letters, short stories, journal pages, scripts and notes to yourself, one line at a time, with nothing on screen but the typewriter and the page.

A TYPEWRITER THAT BEHAVES LIKE ONE
• Key sounds and a margin bell as you type
• Four typewriter sounds to choose from: Classic, Portable, Office and Quiet
• A small vibration under every key press
• Turn the platen knob to roll the paper up and down
• Set backspace to only step back, like a real typewriter, or let it erase
• Classic typewriter mode hides undo, tab, centering and the word count, so it is just you and the page
• Not happy with it? Crumple the page into a ball, throw it away and roll in a fresh sheet

PAPER, RIBBON AND TYPEWRITER FONT
• Cream, white, aged and airmail paper
• A4, A5 and A6 paper sizes
• Normal, wide and extra wide margins
• Black, red and blue ink ribbons
• Yellow, green and pink highlighters
• Two typewriter fonts: Elite and Courier

A POETRY WRITING APP AT HEART
• Start from a blank page or from a poem, letter or note template
• Center a line with one tap and use tab for indents
• See your word and character count as you write
• Undo when a line goes wrong
• Let a project run to as many pages as it needs: add pages, reorder them, delete them and jump straight to the one you want

A LIBRARY FOR EVERYTHING YOU WRITE
• Keep as many projects as you like
• File them as Poem, Story, Script, Letter, Note or Journal
• Search, filter and sort to find a page quickly
• Rename or duplicate any project
• Every page is saved, so you can come back and keep typing
• Back up all your writing to a single file and restore it whenever you need to

SHARE THE TYPED PAGE
• Share a page as an image, exactly as it looks on paper
• Export a PDF, choosing which pages go in and what it is called
• Share the plain text, or save the page to your photos
• Take a desk photo: lay your typed poem on classic wood, dark wood, light wood, marble, green felt or black, or use a photo of your own as the background
• Keep the page straight or tilt it, and pick a story (9:16) or post (4:5) shape for social media

MAKE THE MACHINE YOURS
• Typewriter colours: seafoam, sky blue, coral, mustard, ivory and charcoal
• Five app themes: Seafoam, Navy, Burgundy, Slate and Terracotta
• Round, rounded or square keys
• Typewriter keyboard layouts for English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian and Japanese kana, with accent keys that work the way they do on a real machine
• Connect a Bluetooth or USB keyboard and type on real keys

WHO IT IS FOR
Poets who want a poem to look as good as it reads. Letter writers who miss the look of a typed page. Writers who want a quiet, distraction free place to draft. Anyone who loves vintage typewriters and has always wanted one that fits in a pocket.

Roll in a fresh sheet and start typing.