Dactylo – Typewriter

Launch offer until November 30: unlock Dactylo for half price. One purchase for Mac and iPad, no subscription. Your first page is free.

Dactylo turns your Mac and iPad into a real typewriter.

Keys you can hear. A bell seven letters before the margin. A carriage that steps along and slides home when you press Return. Paper you choose. And when the draft is done, a manuscript that is ready for publishers.

A WHOLE TYPEWRITER, LIVE • Turn the machine in your hands, tilt it, zoom in: every key lifts its own typebar • The keys follow your own keyboard and its language • Four views: Desk, Whole Machine, Page and Manuscript

THE SOUND • Real recordings of a 1960s machine, a little different with every stroke • Portable, Office, Electric or Quiet; rain, fireplace or record crackle under your typing

INK AND PAPER • Black, red, blue and green ribbons, or mix your own ink • Bold, italic and underline, struck the typewriter way • Cream, kraft, laid, aged, onionskin, lined, a yellow legal pad or dark paper: every page keeps its own

LIKE A TYPIST • Drag the red margin arrows; tap the ruler to set your own tab stops • Single, one-and-a-half or double spacing; A4, US Letter, US Legal or A5 • Draft Mode: Backspace types an x, so you only go forward

A BINDER FOR THE WHOLE BOOK • Folders inside folders; every sheet is a page with its own title and date • All Pages lays every sheet of a folder out on the desk • Words, characters, pages, a daily goal, timed sessions and a target for the book, on counters that roll

FROM DRAFT TO SUBMISSION • The Manuscript view: read it back and correct it, in the same type and ink • Export a standard manuscript as PDF or Word for editors and agents, your typed pages exactly as they look, Markdown or plain text

YOURS • iCloud Drive keeps your folders the same on every Mac and iPad • Face ID or Touch ID lock, and one backup file for everything • No account, no ads, no tracking

Your first page is free. Unlock every page, every folder and every export once, for Mac and iPad, shared with your family. No subscription.