<p>Actor Tom Hank's recently-launched typewriter app for iPad has become the leading app at the Apple iTunes App Store.<br /><br />Called "Hanx Writer", it is now ranked No 1 in both the productivity as well as overall section.<br />"Hanx Writer" turns your iPad into an old-fashioned typewriter, offering a pseudo-analog typing experience.</p>.<p><br />The bangs of key presses, hard returns and the chimes that sound when you reach the end of a new line are an enjoyable experience for users, Techcrunch reported.<br /><br />The free app offers an on-screen keyboard or pairs with your Bluetooth keyboard so you can pretend you are not typing on plastic keys.<br /><br />You can also choose the typewriter to match your sound signature.<br /><br />"I wanted to have the sensation of an old manual typewriter - I wanted the sound of typing if nothing elseÂ…cause I find it's like music that spurs along the creative urge. Bang bang clack-clack-clack puckapuckapuckapuckaÂ… I wanted the 'report' of each letter, each line," Hank wrote on Apple's Twitter account.</p>
<p>Actor Tom Hank's recently-launched typewriter app for iPad has become the leading app at the Apple iTunes App Store.<br /><br />Called "Hanx Writer", it is now ranked No 1 in both the productivity as well as overall section.<br />"Hanx Writer" turns your iPad into an old-fashioned typewriter, offering a pseudo-analog typing experience.</p>.<p><br />The bangs of key presses, hard returns and the chimes that sound when you reach the end of a new line are an enjoyable experience for users, Techcrunch reported.<br /><br />The free app offers an on-screen keyboard or pairs with your Bluetooth keyboard so you can pretend you are not typing on plastic keys.<br /><br />You can also choose the typewriter to match your sound signature.<br /><br />"I wanted to have the sensation of an old manual typewriter - I wanted the sound of typing if nothing elseÂ…cause I find it's like music that spurs along the creative urge. Bang bang clack-clack-clack puckapuckapuckapuckaÂ… I wanted the 'report' of each letter, each line," Hank wrote on Apple's Twitter account.</p>