So I told people Typerite was launching in a week, a few weeks ago.
What happened was, I'd built the app, ready to submit it to Apple for review, and presumed the hard part was behind me. Then, I looked more carefully at how the encryption was working. I was/am stupidly adamant about Typerite having end-to-end encryption (E2EE) — all words encrypted on device before they ever touch a server, and I literally not being able to read them. That's the whole privacy idea (for me).
And my implementation had gaps. It technically worked, but "works" is a super low bar when someone's trusting you with their private writing. The key management wasn't airtight. Cross-device sync introduced edge cases I hadn't thought about: what happens when someone gets a new phone? How do encryption keys move across devices without ever being readable by the server? I thought (A)I had figured all this out. Apparently not!
The thing that surprised me: I went into E2EE thinking it was a feature I was adding. Like a checkbox. Turns out it's closer to an architecture decision that touches everything — auth, sync, backup, device migration, and more. Every shortcut I took created a spot where someone's private writing could leak. There are genuinely no small decisions once you go down that road, I learnt.
And, I spent weeks redoing it properly, then went through Apple's review process (which had its own surprises, again), and the app is now approved and going live.
I'm sharing this partly as an honest update for people who saw me say "next week" and then heard nothing, and partly because I think the E2EE thing is genuinely interesting and I'm proud of seeing my "idea" through. Most writing apps encrypt user data to protect it from hackers. Typerite encrypts it to protect your words from the app itself. Building that properly turned out to be a way bigger deal than I expected, and probably the reason most (vibecoded?) apps don't bother.
Anyway. Typerite is an app for those who refuse to outsource their thinking.
No AI, no prompts, no social features.
Set words a day on a blank page.
If that sounds like your kind of thing, it's here.
https://typerite.app
What happened was, I'd built the app, ready to submit it to Apple for review, and presumed the hard part was behind me. Then, I looked more carefully at how the encryption was working. I was/am stupidly adamant about Typerite having end-to-end encryption (E2EE) — all words encrypted on device before they ever touch a server, and I literally not being able to read them. That's the whole privacy idea (for me).
And my implementation had gaps. It technically worked, but "works" is a super low bar when someone's trusting you with their private writing. The key management wasn't airtight. Cross-device sync introduced edge cases I hadn't thought about: what happens when someone gets a new phone? How do encryption keys move across devices without ever being readable by the server? I thought (A)I had figured all this out. Apparently not!
The thing that surprised me: I went into E2EE thinking it was a feature I was adding. Like a checkbox. Turns out it's closer to an architecture decision that touches everything — auth, sync, backup, device migration, and more. Every shortcut I took created a spot where someone's private writing could leak. There are genuinely no small decisions once you go down that road, I learnt.
And, I spent weeks redoing it properly, then went through Apple's review process (which had its own surprises, again), and the app is now approved and going live.
I'm sharing this partly as an honest update for people who saw me say "next week" and then heard nothing, and partly because I think the E2EE thing is genuinely interesting and I'm proud of seeing my "idea" through. Most writing apps encrypt user data to protect it from hackers. Typerite encrypts it to protect your words from the app itself. Building that properly turned out to be a way bigger deal than I expected, and probably the reason most (vibecoded?) apps don't bother.
Anyway. Typerite is an app for those who refuse to outsource their thinking.
No AI, no prompts, no social features.
Set words a day on a blank page.
If that sounds like your kind of thing, it's here.
https://typerite.app