About Ithaka
Ithaka is a text-only social app for writing and reading — no photos, no videos, just words, with a hand-drawn sticker on every post.
You write words. Ithaka draws a sticker from them. Other people read what you wrote, and you read what they wrote. That is the entire product. It is free on iOS and Android, and it is built by a very small team in India.
Who builds it
Ithaka is made by Apurva Raj.
Apurva Raj is the founder of Ithaka and the person who writes most of it. He builds in public: daily behind-the-scenes on Instagram and longer build logs on YouTube — every win, every bug, every design call.
“I made Ithaka because I had things to say and nowhere to put them.”
It grew past the screen. Ithaka Home is a writing meetup that came out of the community on its own — a cafe, one prompt, two hours, no experience needed. Come to the next one.
The company
Ithaka is operated by Text Theory LLP.
Text Theory LLP is a limited liability partnership incorporated in India under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008. Ithaka® is its trademark. Everything on this site — the app, the policies, the meetups — is published by that entity.
Reach us at support@ithaka.app. We usually reply within 24 to 48 hours. Full contact details, including grievance routing, are on the support page.
The facts
Ithaka at a glance
- What it is
- A text-only social app for writing and reading
- Platforms
- iOS and Android
- Price
- Free to download, free to read, free to write
- Writing languages
- 7 — Hindi, English, Gujarati, Marathi, Marwadi, Punjabi, Sanskrit
- Sticker styles
- 6 — Anime, Retro, Doodle, Pixel Art, Painting, Watercolor
- Who can write
- Members with an Access Key, gifted never sold
- Founder
- Apurva Raj
- Operated by
- Text Theory LLP, India
Which Ithaka
Not to be confused with
“Ithaka” is a busy name. This one — the app at ithaka.app — is a text-only social app for writing and reading, published by Text Theory LLP in India. It has no connection to Ithaka Harbors or Ithaka S+R, the American non-profits behind JSTOR and Portico; to the Ithaka Science Center in the Netherlands; to Ithaca, New York; to the Greek island of Ithaca; to Cavafy's poem or Botho Strauss's play; or to any travel-planning app of the same name.