TapAcademy vs Clicks Keyboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TapAcademy
Improve your typing speed and accuracy with a 30-day program designed to build muscle memory. Engage in daily tapping challenges and speed tests, tracking your progress with detailed statistics. This app requires a Tap wearable to play.
- 30-day learning program
- Daily speed tests
- Tapping challenges
- Progress tracking
- Muscle memory development
- Optional practice play
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Become a master Tapper in just 10 minutes a day with the TapAcademy 30 day learning program. Players typically reach speeds of over 30 words per minute and higher. Race against yourself in a variety of fun tapping challenges. Each day you play four 2 1/2 minute games, and take a daily speed test. Track your progress with detailed statistics and improve your skills with optional practice play. This research based learning program establishes muscle memory to make tapping second nature simple. Before starting TapAcademy, please play TapGenius to first learn the Tap alphabet. Tap wearable is required.
Clicks Keyboard
Enhance your typing with advanced keyboard controls. Customize backlight, shift key behavior, and access to numbers and symbols. Optimize your typing experience with features like soft return, cursor mode, and firmware updates.
- Keyboard backlight control
- Caps lock and shift lock customization
- Alt lock for numbers and symbols
- Soft return for line breaks
- Cursor mode with WASD/IKJL
- Customizable currency symbol
- Over-the-air firmware updates
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The Clicks app unlocks new features for your keyboard. Toggle your keyboard backlight between 'automatic' and off. Use this feature to check the status of your backlight and reset it to automatic mode if it's been accidentally disabled through the keyboard shortcut. Caps lock - Control the behaviour of the shift key. When turned on, pressing the shift key once makes the next charater a capital letter. Double clicking the shift key enables shift lock. When disabled, you must press and hold shift to get a captial letter. Alt lock - Control the behaviour of the '123' key. When turned on, pressing the '123' key once makes the next typed character a number of symbol. Double clicking the shift key enables number lock - (great for typing phone numbers of long number strings!). When disabled, you must press and hold '123' to get numbers and symbols. Soft return - Choose between using the return to add a carriage return (soft return) or send a message (hard return). Clicks key customization - Decide whether you want the Clicks key to function as Tab or Control Cursor mode - Enable cursor mode to use WASD and IJKL as directional cursor keys Currency symbol - Customize your currency symbol Create or log in to your Clicks Keyboard account to get updated about the latest features coming to your Clicks Keyboard Update your keyboard firmware over the air to optimize the typing experience. Learn and explore your Clicks keyboard with access to tips and how-to's. * Certain features and functionality are dependant on your Clicks model.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TapAcademy at 3.4 against Clicks Keyboard's 2.9. TapAcademy also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 32%) and device support (3 vs 1). Clicks Keyboard's advantage is ratings volume (59 vs 7). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TapAcademy holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clicks Keyboard has 59 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of TapAcademy's written reviews are positive against 32% of Clicks Keyboard's.
TapAcademy ships an update every 4 weeks, Clicks Keyboard every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TapAcademy | Clicks Keyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (7 ratings) — better | 2.9 (59 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better | 31.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 59 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 179 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tap Systems Inc. | Clicks Technology Ltd |
Customer experience
TapAcademy
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In-app purchases
TapAcademy
No in-app purchases
Clicks Keyboard
No in-app purchases
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