retro_typer

Memes need no introduction. There’s a place and time for everything, yet it seems that memes are always welcome in some form or another. Of course, there are lots of meme types for different tastes, so make sure to test the waters before sending anything too crazy.

Either way, we all know what memes are. Finding them is a different matter altogether, and while there’s clearly no shortage of resources on the web to find them, a meme finder app sounds rather interesting. That’s the premise behind retro_typer: it’s a memes finder that can retrieve stills and GIFs from the internet, as well as emojis and ASCII art to help you be that much more expressive.

An app like this should theoretically save you the few clicks it would take to open your browser and look for the content yourself. Instead, you’ll simply have to type in your query, and the tool will return a series of images or GIFs that are relevant for your search.

The process is thus straightforward, and as for saving your content, you’ll have to navigate to the image that appeals to you, then save it to your clipboard by pressing Enter. After that, you’ll be able to share it with anyone.

It’s not just GIFs and memes that are available here: all manner of emojis and ASCII art are at your disposal. Type in your query, then press the corresponding number for the type of content you want to see the results for: 1 for ASCII, 2 for images, 3 for GIFs, and 4 for emojis.

With all of that having been said, it would have been nice to be able to save the content from the app to your computer, such that you could drag them to your desktop or to a chat. It’s a bummer that you cannot resize or reposition the app. Perhaps this will be addressed in a future update.

retro_typer is a pretty interesting one. I was able to find the memes I was looking for with relative ease, and despite the few criticisms I had, the experience was overall positive in the end.