GreatTyping vs Typing Land
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GreatTyping
Master touch typing with a structured course designed for all users. Customize your learning experience with adjustable settings and add your own content. This app is ideal for children with special needs and visually impaired individuals.
- Complete training course
- Add custom content
- Adjustable font size and color
- Visually impaired support
- ClassKit support
- No ads
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GreatTyping is a plain and well structured app to learn touch typing. • complete training course • best with an external keyboard • add custom content • adjustable font size and color scheme • suitable even for the needs of visually impaired people • developed by qualified teachers for children with special needs • ClassKit support • no ads
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 in-app purchases: GreatTyping at none against Typing Land's 1. GreatTyping also leads on rating (3.8 vs 3.5). Typing Land's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (130 vs 12). On price, review sentiment, 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. GreatTyping asks for nothing beyond the download.
GreatTyping holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Typing Land has 130 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of GreatTyping's written reviews are positive against 62% of Typing Land's.
GreatTyping ships an update every 4 months, Typing Land every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GreatTyping | Typing Land |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (12 ratings) — better | 3.5 (130 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.0% of reviews — better | 62.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 130 — better |
| 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 | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Briegers GbR | Yoshiyuki Higo |
Customer experience
GreatTyping
Typing Land
Bugs and requests
GreatTyping
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
GreatTyping
No in-app purchases
Typing Land
- Typing Sword$4.99
Questions
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