Academy Award winner Tom Hanks has taken on a new leading role as an iPad app developer. His Hanx Writer app-- which recently hit the top of the charts as the most downloaded app in iTunes -- combines ...

Welcome to the technological frontier of 2014: Dueling typewriter apps for the iPad. The upstart rival, Typing Writer, was launched in July by The Rumpus. The literary website’s founder, Stephen ...

Hanx Writer is a simple typewriter iOS app for the iPad, created by Hitcents at the request of Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks. Launched only last week and available as a free download, the app has ...

Celebrities throwing their names behind products are nothing new. Ronald Reagan hawked cigarettes, Kim Kardashian has her own mobile game, even the Simpsons made the jump. Still there's something odd ...

Flash forward to today, and the Hanx Writer has been greeted with cheerful skepticism. David Pierce, on behalf of The Verge, summed up what appears to be the general consensus on the app in his review ...

Tom Hanks can add “created most popular iPad app” to his long list of accomplishments. The Oscar-winning actor’s Hanx Writer app, which gives the illusion of typing on a manual typewriter, sat at ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - On today's APP-tastic and outta SITE - Hanx Writer. Tom Hanks might be known most for his acting chops, but now you can add developer to his resume. Hanx Writer turns your phone ...

The joke (type)writes itself: Tom Hanks—two-time Academy Award winner, beloved star of Nora Ephron rom-coms, tweeter of messages signed "Hanx"—is following the footsteps of Kim Kardashian and entering ...

A typewriter app backed by actor Tom Hanks has topped iTunes store charts. Titled Hanx Writer, the app aims to recreate the experience of a manual typewriter but with the "ease and spread" of an iPad.

Hanx Writer is a simple typewriter iOS app for the iPad, created by Hitcents at the request of Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks. Launched only last week and available as a free download, the app has ...