Minipad vs Typing Land
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minipad
A straightforward text editor designed for users of all ages, including children. It offers a distraction-free writing environment for creating stories, notes, and exploring language. Features include customizable font sizes and secure deletion to prevent accidental data loss.
- Focus on writing
- Sort entries by date or title
- Adjustable font sizes
- No spell check or autocorrect
- Accident-prevention delete
- Voice dictation and emoji support
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Made for people of all ages — and great for kids! — Minipad is a simple text editor for creating stories, editing notes, trying words and discovering the alphabet. Minipad has a minimal feature set to help writers to focus on writing. • Entries are sorted with the newest ones first (or sort by title or last changed first) • Typography is clear and the default font size is purposely large • A slider in the options bubble allows for 5 different font sizes • No spell checking and no autocorrection distractions • Deleting stories needs extra taps to help prevent accidental deletes • Try voice dictation or emojis on the iOS keyboard to make silly stories!
Typing Land
Master typing skills with over 40 engaging mini-games and 81 free lessons. This app focuses on proper finger placement and offers an ad-free, offline experience. Collect badges, challenge your speed and accuracy, and unlock an exclusive game through donations.
- 40+ mini-games
- 81 free typing lessons
- Finger placement guidance
- Offline play
- Badge collection system
- Challenge mode
- Exclusive mini-game unlock
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Learn how to type through 40 kinds of mini-games! This app requires the use of a physical keyboard. - Features 1. From finger placement Learn from basics including how to position the fingers. 2. Free lessons All 81 lessons are free to play. Donations are appreciated! 3. No advertisement Completely kids-friendly and ads-free. 4. Play offline Once installed, games can be played offline. - Collect the badges Earn badges by achieving lesson goals. Play to collect all 150 badges. Each badge can be set as your profile icon. - Challenge-mode for your next step Once you get used to the typing lessons, try the Challenge-mode. Score is determined by your typing speed and accuracy. Practice with pre-set sentences or texts of your choice. - Exclusive game If you enjoy this app, please make a donation to the developer. Donation will unlock the exclusive mini-game, "Typing Sword". - From the developer We have developed this app as a safe platform for children and adults around the world to use. It is also a great tool for use in your company or classroom.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Minipad at 4.3 against Typing Land's 3.5. Minipad also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (86% vs 62%). Typing Land's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Typing Land sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Minipad asks for nothing beyond the download.
Minipad holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 402 and 130 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Minipad's written reviews are positive against 62% of Typing Land's.
Minipad ships an update every 4 months, Typing Land every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minipad | Typing Land |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (402 ratings) — better | 3.5 (130 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.5% of reviews — better | 62.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 402 — better | 130 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Davidson | Yoshiyuki Higo |
Customer experience
Minipad
Typing Land
User reviews
Minipad
From 402 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 💡 Allows writing without distractions
- 🚀 Efficient battery usage
- 🤩 Great for young writers
- 🙌 Encourages creativity and imagination
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional data loss issues
- 💬 Lack of formatting options (italics, bold)
- 🔍 No search functionality
- 📁 Inability to organize notes/stories into folders
- 🔤 No spell check or autocorrect
Typing Land
From 130 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Engaging and fun
- 👍 Great for kids and adults
- 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
- 🚀 Effective for learning typing
- 👍 Cute and colorful graphics
Room to improve
- 🐛 Keyboard not recognized on some devices
- 🐛 Issues with certain keys (ñ, ö, ä, ü)
- 🐛 Glitches and bugs in some levels
- 🐛 Overly strict accuracy requirements
Bugs and requests
Minipad
Reported bugs
2 issues- Reported issues with data loss and deletion of stories
- Some users unable to export or share their writings
Requested features
5 requests- Add spell check and autocorrect
- Implement formatting options (italics, bold)
- Include a search feature
- Allow organizing notes/stories into folders
- Provide an option to change font size and style
Typing Land
Reported bugs
4 issues- Keyboard not recognized on some devices
- Issues with certain keys (ñ, ö, ä, ü)
- Glitches and bugs in some levels
- Spacebar not working properly
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for more keyboard layouts
- Allow custom word/sentence practice
- Provide more flexibility in progression
- Add multiplayer/competitive modes
In-app purchases
Minipad
No in-app purchases
Typing Land
- Typing Sword$4.99
Questions
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