Speed Typer vs w5rds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speed Typer
Measure and improve your typing speed and accuracy with this free app. Challenge friends and aim for top rankings in multiple languages. See how fast you can truly type.
- Measure typing speed
- Improve accuracy
- Challenge friends
- Global rankings
- Ten language support
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Think you’re a fast typist? Test your skills with Speed Typer, a typing app designed to help you measure speed, improve accuracy, and track your progress over time. Practice across multiple modes, view detailed statistics, and unlock premium features like advanced insights, custom typing tests, and an ad-free experience. Speed Typer supports ten languages: Dutch, American English, British English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. Please see https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ for Speed Typer’s Terms of Use (EULA).
w5rds
Engage in a daily logic-based word puzzle that challenges your deduction skills. Solve single-word or multi-word challenges, compete on leaderboards, and track your progress. Offers adjustable difficulty and helpful hints for all skill levels.
- Daily single-word puzzles
- Daily multi-word phrase puzzles
- Daily leaderboards
- Progress tracking (streaks, stats)
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- Hints and clue system
- Challenge Packs
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Play Smart, Think Deeper. w5rds is a daily logic-based word puzzle that challenges you to decode, deduce, and solve. Part cryptogram, part brain teaser, and part competition, w5rds rewards thoughtful strategy over random guessing. Every day brings two new puzzles: • Daily Single: Decode One Word • Daily Phrase: Crack a Multi-Word Challenge Compete against the w5rds community for a Top 25 spot on the daily leaderboard, or focus on building your streak and sharpening your logic skills. Don’t forget to set a daily reminder so you never miss your shot at that day’s leaderboard. w5rds is designed for every level of player, from beginners learning the system to advanced solvers chasing Blind Solves. - Reveal the Clue for helpful context - Earn a coveted Blind Solve by solving without it - Use Hints to reveal letters, but with an added time penalty - Turn on Guess Mode to throw out the timer and conquer the w5rds, no matter the difficulty level - Scale your challenge from Beginner to Master - Productive struggle is built in and you control the difficulty. You can track your w5rds progress with Daily Streaks, Solve Statistics, and Blind Solves tracking to watch your skills grow over time. If two puzzles a day isn’t enough, dive into Challenge Packs to strengthen your strategy and sharpen your logic even further. W5rds is completely free. That means no ads, no subscriptions, and no in-app purchases. Just pure puzzle solving and a great brain workout. Welcome to w5rds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: w5rds at none against Speed Typer's 3. w5rds also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Speed Typer's advantage is ratings volume (6.7K vs 3). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Speed Typer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. w5rds asks for nothing beyond the download.
w5rds holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speed Typer has 6.7K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Speed Typer's written reviews are positive against 100% of w5rds's.
Speed Typer ships an update every 3 weeks, w5rds every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speed Typer | w5rds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (6.7K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6.7K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | justncode LLC | Bradford McCormick |
Customer experience
Speed Typer
w5rds
Bugs and requests
Speed Typer
Reported bugs
3 issues- Words disappearing after typing a space
- Inability to see typed text during tests
- Inconsistent font sizing across categories
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to adjust test duration
- More variety in word/sentence prompts
- Statistics tracking and progress monitoring
- Option to practice typing your own text
w5rds
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Speed Typer
- Monthly Premium Subscription$1.991 Month
- Yearly Premium Subscription$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$99.99
w5rds
No in-app purchases
