Platen — Paper & Ink
Jerry Munyoka Nkongolo Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Platen — Paper & Ink is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Jerry Munyoka Nkongolo. Rated 4.7/5 from 20 ratings. Requires iOS 18.0.
- Rating
- 4.7
- 20 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 121 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 15
- 2026 · v1.3.5
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About Platen — Paper & Ink
A little machine. A page of your own. Platen brings the feeling of a typewriter to your iPhone: textured paper, imperfect ink, mechanical sounds and a capsule that follows your words. Write letters, capture thoughts and enjoy a quieter place to write. Choose flat or curved paper, your type size and margins, adjust ink darkness and keep corrections as crossed-out letters or erase them cleanly. Long-press the capsule for night writing, then adjust the lamp’s warmth, intensity and beam. Find notes with search and monthly groups. Recover them from Recently Deleted, export a backup or enable optional iCloud synchronization with the same Apple Account. Start free with three active notes and the original writing setup. Platen Studio is an optional one-time purchase for more notes, paper choices, capsule styles, rail finishes, gardens, additional sounds and print-ready A4, US Letter and A5 sheets. No subscription. All future Studio features included. Each note supports up to 3,000 characters, including spaces and line breaks, in both the free edition and Platen Studio. Made by Rafikki Studio. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ratings & reviews
4.7
20 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.3.5 · Updated October 15, 2026
Crafts of the World brings country capsules and painted margins together in one pack, also included with Studio. Celebrate Día de Muertos with a new pack of colourful capsules, rail ends and paper decorations. Korean typing follows every growing syllable, with richer Fresh and Worn ink. Chinese typing is steadier when words wrap, and emoji get their own hammer strike. Find a beginning among 120 first lines. Platen now speaks Ukrainian, too. The share button is on by default, and the character count is easier to read with large text. For a quieter Home and Studio, you can hide the machine and rail. Choose to hear your typewriter even when your phone is in silent mode. A softer paper launch, quicker picker navigation and sharing, little capsule stories, and tidier Studio settings.
App privacy
The developer, Jerry Munyoka Nkongolo, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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