ZType vs Space Race Typing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ZType
Defend against enemy waves by typing letters to shoot plasma bullets. Utilize EMP bombs for dire situations to destroy nearby enemies. Experience a top typing game now on iOS.
- Typing-based combat
- Shoot plasma bullets by typing
- EMP bomb power-ups
- Defend against enemy waves
- iOS availability
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One of the Web's best Typing Games now finally available for iOS! Fend of the enemy's attack waves by proving your typing skills. Each letter you type shoots off a powerful plasma bullet into the enemy's ships. If you ever find yourself in a dire situation, you can use the EMP bombs to destory any nearby enemies.
Space Race Typing
Race through space by typing quickly and maneuvering your ship. Challenge friends or other players online in this unique type racing game. Dodge obstacles and defeat alien bugs to win.
- Type racing gameplay
- Multiplayer online races
- Solo missions
- Dodge asteroids and lasers
- Battle alien bugs
- Leaderboard rankings
- Classic and Endless Survival modes
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Are you ready to type, tilt, and challenge other players online? Enjoy a first-of-its-kind type racing game! RACE your way to the finish line. Play against friends or on a solo mission in space. Dodge asteroids and lasers hurtling toward you in a harrowing battle against alien bugs! Balance between typing speed, and maneuvering your ship win the day! Rule the Leaderboard in Single or Multiplayer modes Play with friends using invite system, or matchmake with random players. Use Classic Mode to test your skills and train. See how far you can go in Endless Survival mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Space Race Typing at 5.0 against ZType's 3.9. Space Race Typing also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 32 months). ZType's advantage is ratings volume (72 vs 7) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ZType sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Space Race Typing sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Space Race Typing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ZType has 72 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of ZType's written reviews are positive against 100% of Space Race Typing's.
ZType ships an update every 32 months, Space Race Typing every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ZType | Space Race Typing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (72 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 32 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 159 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | PhobosLab | Benjamin Welch |
Customer experience
ZType
Space Race Typing
Bugs and requests
ZType
Reported bugs
45 issues- Game stops working/freezes
- External keyboards not supported
- No landscape mode on iPad
- Onscreen keyboard inputs wrong keys
- Onscreen keyboard unresponsive/inaccurate
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- Game doesn't load (black screen)
- Word recognition issues
- No sound on iPhone
- Game doesn't work with Bluetooth keyboard
- iPad app useless without keyboard/landscape
- Magic Keyboard not working
- Screen won't turn landscape on iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard
- Onscreen keyboard inputting wrong keys
- Onscreen keyboard not sized right
- Unresponsive and inaccurate onscreen keyboard
- Game freezes and requires reinstallation
- External keyboard not working
- Onscreen keyboard is janky
- Game does not load
- External keyboard not supported
- No allowance for physical keyboard
- iPad app is useless
- No support for external keyboard
- Keyboard support missing
- No external keyboard support
- No allowance for physical keyboard
- Can’t work on iPad landscape screen and magic keyboard
- External keyboard not working
- No external keyboard support
- Keyboard Support
- No allowance for physical keyboard?
- Can’t work on iPad landscape screen and magic keyboard
- iPad app is useless
- No Bluetooth keyboard
- Doesn’t work with keyboard
- Disappointed
- Great PC game, worthless on iPad (no keyboard)
- Doesn’t work with keyboard
- Only Portrait Compatible
- Dose not work with keyboard on iPad
- Doesn't support actual keyboards
- Good game but the keyboard could be better
- Beautiful game, keyboard can be better
- Incredible, but the UI can use some work.
- Would have given 5 but...
Requested features
17 requests- Add external keyboard support
- Enable landscape mode on iPad
- Customizable keyboard size
- More game layouts/languages
- Add difficulty levels
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- Add lowercase keyboard option for kids
- Adjustable padding under keyboard
- Add vibration/haptic feedback
- Add Arabic keyboard support
- Allow use of default phone keyboard
- Add German words
- More content (skins, leaderboards)
- Allow background music
- Add 'words per minute' statistic
- Option to reply levels/continue from mistakes
- Add QWERTZ keyboard layout
- Feature to change keyboard layout based on words
Space Race Typing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ZType
- Remove Ads$0.99
Space Race Typing
- F-99 Skin$0.49
- G26 Skin$0.49
- Azure Cobra Skin$0.49
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- Tarantula Hawk Skin$0.49
- Void Albatross Skin$0.49
- Silver Talon Skin$0.49
- Wolf Spider Skin$0.49
- X-5 Skin$0.49
