Hacker Keyboard vs My Type!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hacker Keyboard
Test your typing speed in this game where you 'hack' contacts by typing quickly. Progress through increasingly challenging checkpoints to see if you can hack them all.
- Typing game mechanic
- Hack contacts
- 50 contacts to hack
- 10 checkpoints
- Increasing difficulty
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Hacker Keyboard is a simple typing game where you can type to 'hack' your contacts! But are you fast enough to hack them all? There are 50 contacts to 'hack'. There are 10 checkpoints. Checkpoints get increasingly harder to get. Will you be fast enough?
My Type!
Test your typing speed by clearing words before they fill the screen. Special words offer unique effects to help you out of tough spots. Improve your texting and typing skills in a fun, engaging, multilingual game.
- Clear words by typing them
- Special words with unique effects
- Improve typing and texting speed
- Multilingual support
- Fast-paced gameplay
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How fast can you type? In "My Type!" your typing skills are put to the ultimate test. Write words to remove them before they fill up the board. Some words like "Explode" might have special effects, giving you an extra tool to bring you out of a tricky situation. "My type" is the perfect game to improve your typing skills and learn how to text faster in a fun and engaging way. It's available in multiple languages to help as many people as possible have fun and improve.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: My Type! at 86% against Hacker Keyboard's 43%. My Type! also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.1) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 49 months). Hacker Keyboard's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
My Type! holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 38 and 66 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Hacker Keyboard's written reviews are positive against 86% of My Type!'s.
Hacker Keyboard ships an update every 49 months, My Type! fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hacker Keyboard | My Type! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (38 ratings) | 4.8 (66 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 | 66 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 49 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arthur De Araujo | Linus Lindberg |
Customer experience
Hacker Keyboard
My Type!
In-app purchases
Hacker Keyboard
No in-app purchases
My Type!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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