TypeDefense vs Life's Bucket List
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TypeDefense
Test your typing speed in this engaging game where you defend a city from incoming missiles by rapidly typing words. Compete with friends and players worldwide on a global leaderboard to prove your typing prowess.
- Typing speed game
- City defense gameplay
- Endless game mode
- Global leaderboard
- Compare scores with friends
- Pause and save game
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How fast can you type on the iPhone keyboard? TypeDefense is a fun and addicting game where you defend your city from missiles by typing in words as fast as possible! You can even compare your typing speed against your friends and other on our global leaderboard! Think you're an iPhone typing master? Get TypeDefense and see how good you really are! Features Include: - Endless game play. - Global leaderboard. Compare your speed score against your friends and others. - Pause or save your current game. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/greenrobotllc Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greenrobotllc Visit the Type Defense Forums for discussion about the game: https://forums.greenrobot.com/c/type-defense By using or accessing GreenRobot Services, you agree that you have reviewed our Terms of Service at https://greenrobot.com/terms and Privacy Policy at https://greenrobot.com/privacy and consent to be bound by them.
Life's Bucket List
A casual game where players collect icons representing time, effort, and money to spend on virtual bucket list items. Avoid falling rocks while managing your resources to achieve your goals and make life more fun.
- Collect Time, Effort, and Money icons
- Avoid falling rocks
- Spend points on bucket list items
- Items include movies, books, adventures, food, travel
- Casual gameplay
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Everybody has a bucket list to fill. Maybe two or more of them. In order to complete them, you need Time, Effort and Money. None of these things are easy! Fortunately, this game will help you complete them. Use your chosen bucket to collect Time, Effort and Money icons as they fall from the sky. Avoid the rocks. There are lots of them, especially in real life. Use your collected points to spend on your bucket lists: Movies, Books, Daring Adventures, Food and Travel. Life doesn't need to be so hard. It should be fun, too.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Life's Bucket List at 5.0 against TypeDefense's 2.9. Life's Bucket List also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 65%) and update cadence (every 8 months vs every 59 months). TypeDefense's advantage is ratings volume (760 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Life's Bucket List holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TypeDefense has 760 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of TypeDefense's written reviews are positive against 100% of Life's Bucket List's.
TypeDefense ships an update every 59 months, Life's Bucket List every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TypeDefense | Life's Bucket List |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (760 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 760 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 59 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GreenRobot LLC | David Johnson |
Customer experience
TypeDefense
Life's Bucket List
Bugs and requests
TypeDefense
Reported bugs
1 issue- Word validation accepts overlapping/duplicate entries (e.g., 'heeyhey' for 'hey')
Requested features
4 requests- Landscape mode support
- Custom music playback
- Less destructive game imagery
- Horizontal keyboard orientation option
Life's Bucket List
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TypeDefense
No in-app purchases
Life's Bucket List
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is TypeDefense free?
Is Life's Bucket List free?
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