type v1.11.0

type v1.11.0

A single sheet of paper. Type, then keep it or burn it.

What's new

• Auto-updates from GitHub Releases — type checks on launch and prompts when a new version is ready
• Three themes: Light, Amber phosphor, Dispatch
• Zen mode (fullscreen) and Stay-on-top
• Smolder: the page chars if you stop typing; cools when you resume. Configurable delay (10 / 30 / 60 / 120s)
• Burn now with ⌘B
• First-run onboarding that hands off into an opening quote
• Quotes on launch and on every burn, with a hover-× to drop one
• Share a quote as a phone-wallpaper PNG (hover the quote → share icon → AirDrop, Messages, Notes, Mail)
• Overstrike: ↑ lifts the cursor onto a prior line; x covers a character and advances. ↓ returns to writing.
• Word count + writing timer
• Auto-saved drafts survive crashes and restarts
• Save to a folder of your choice as a dated .md
• Current-line editing: ⌫ char, ⌥⌫ word, ⌘⌫ wipe line. Committed lines stay locked.

type v1.10.0

type v1.10.0

A single sheet of paper. Type, then keep it or burn it.

New

• iCloud sync, on by default. Your writing saves to a “type” folder in iCloud Drive and syncs across your devices — privately. type has no server, so your pages are never seen by anyone but you. On first launch you choose: sync with iCloud, or pick your own folder (an Obsidian vault, Dropbox, anywhere). A single iCloud-sync switch lets you save somewhere else for a while and return to your type folder in one tap.
• Settings, as a side rail. Opening settings slides the page aside to reveal a full-height panel — grouped Saving, Writing, Display, Sound, with theme and line spacing at the bottom.
• Browse your kept pages. A quiet kept sits between KEEP and BURN (or press ⌘⇧K): it opens everything you’ve saved as a roll of paper sheets you can scroll, arrow through, and open to read.
• A cleaner bottom bar. KEEP · KEPT · BURN are plain words; hover any for its shortcut. Settings moved to a small menu in the top-right corner, share to the top-left.

Changed

• Themes are day / night / amber / dispatch; line spacing is tight / normal / loose / wide.

type checks for updates on launch and offers this one automatically.

type v1.9.0

type v1.9.0

A single sheet of paper. Type, then keep it or burn it.

This is the big one for Mac: the writing surface is rebuilt on macOS's own text engine, bringing it to parity with the iPhone app.

New

• Undo, redo, and real selection. ⌘Z undoes, ⌘⇧Z redoes, and you can select, copy, and paste like in any native field — dictation works too. The typewriter feel is unchanged: committed lines still lock, and the block cursor still rides the strike line. But the text underneath is solid now, so the occasional doubled cursor and dropped/scrambled characters are gone.
• Line spacing. A new tight / normal / air control in settings — a dense draft or a wide, airy page.
• Autocorrect. A settings toggle, off by default so the typewriter stays literal. Turn it on to let macOS fix spelling as you write.
• Your kept pages, in the app. The review drawer reads the real .md files in your save folder, so you can browse, search, and reopen what you've written. Share a kept page to the system share sheet, or click the folder name in settings to open it in Finder.

type checks for updates on launch and will offer this one automatically.

type v1.8.0

New

• ⌘⇧B — report with a screenshot. The same shortcut the Dispatch work board uses: it captures the page exactly as it looks (just the window, no screen-recording permission), opens the feedback sheet with the shot attached, and the report lands with the screenshot included. Plain ⌘B still burns — the shift makes all the difference.

type v1.7.0

New

• Paste works. ⌘V types the clipboard onto the page. On the writing line it flows through the same wrap as typing, so a long passage lands exactly as if you'd typed it — including line breaks. With the cursor up on an earlier line (editable page on), it pastes right at the cursor; the line still stops at the margin. On a locked page, the past stays locked — paste up there takes no ink, just like typing. Pasted text keeps its spacing as written: the double-space-makes-a-period trick only applies to your own keystrokes.
• Real text-navigation shortcuts when you arrow up. Once the cursor is on an earlier line — editable page on or off — the macOS habits work: ⌥← / ⌥→ jump by word, ⌘← / ⌘→ (or Home / End) go to the ends of the line, ⌘↑ jumps to the first line, and ⌘↓ drops you straight back to the writing line.

type v1.6.0

New

• Editable page. A new switch in settings unlocks the page: the arrow keys move the cursor back through everything you've written, and you can edit it like a normal document — insert, delete, fix the typo three lines up. The paper rolls back down so the line you're editing sits right at the strike point. It's a decision you make before you write: once there's ink on the page the switch dims and stays put until the next sheet, so you can't bail out of a locked page halfway through. Off by default — the typewriter is still the typewriter.

type v1.5.2

Fixed

• Choosing a save folder works again with Stay on top on. With "Stay on top" enabled, clicking choose… under "save as .md to" appeared to do nothing — the folder picker was opening behind the always-on-top window, hidden from view. The picker now attaches to the window itself, so it always comes up in front no matter what.

type v1.5.1

Improved

• Updates show a progress bar instead of a stack of dialogs. When a new version is downloading, a quiet bar at the top of the page fills as it goes, so you can actually see how far along it is — no more clicking "Check for Updates" again to find out. When it's ready, a single restart appears: one click installs it and reopens right where you left off. Checking from the menu gives instant feedback too. And if you'd rather not stop, just ignore it — the update still installs on its own the next time you quit.

type v1.5.0

Improved

• Markdown lines read like the real thing. A line that starts with > , - / * , or # now hides the literal marker as you write — a quote shows just its left rule, a list item gets a real • bullet, a heading simply goes bold. The markers still live in the file underneath, so your saved .md stays valid and byte-faithful; they're only tucked out of sight on screen. Wrapped list and heading lines keep their shape through resize and reload.
• The pointer gets out of your way. The mouse cursor now hides itself while you're typing, so it stops hovering in the middle of the page when you tab back from another app. Any nudge of the mouse brings it right back.

Fixed

• Editing a list, quote, or heading line from above works again. Pressing ↑ to step back onto an earlier line and type over it used to break on any - , > , or # line: the cursor landed on the now-hidden marker, became invisible, and keystrokes piled up on top of themselves — sometimes quietly mangling the line. The cursor now skips past the marker to the first real character, stays visible, and leaves the marker untouched.

type v1.4.2

A single sheet of paper. Type, then keep it or burn it.

Fixed

• Keeping a long page rolls it up, not down. On a page taller than the window, ⌘S used to shove the sheet downward a moment before it vanished, instead of pulling it up and off the platen. The eject now lifts from wherever the page is scrolled to, so a kept page always rolls up and away like paper leaving a typewriter — and the date stamp lands on the clean platen behind it. Short pages behave exactly as before.