DraftPad vs News Typing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DraftPad
A minimalist writing tool designed for quick drafting of messages, posts, or blog entries. It offers a clean interface without complex features, focusing on immediate text input and sharing. Easily export your text and track character counts.
- Plain text writing field
- Share/export text via iOS activity sheet
- Automatic history list for text restoration
- Adjustable font size and line spacing
- Character, word, and line counters
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DraftPad is a simple notepad which is like a single sheet of paper. You can use it to write a draft for messaging, posting, blogging, or any writing tasks. For the simplicity, DraftPad doesn't have features for filing multiple notes and decorating text elements. Instead, it is always ready to start jotting. DraftPad allows you to - Simply write and read on a plain field without any functional complexity or visual clutter. - Share or export your text via iOS standard activity sheet. - Restore previous text from the automatic History list. - Change font size and line spacing. - Helped by the counters for characters, words, and lines. Follow @draftpad on Twitter for staying in touch.
News Typing
Enhance your typing skills with daily news articles. Practice with a diverse range of texts to improve speed and accuracy. This application offers continuous training opportunities.
- Typing training
- Daily news topics
- Variety of texts
- Accuracy improvement
- Speed enhancement
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This is a typing training application with news topics. You can train with a variety of texts every day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DraftPad at 78% against News Typing's 11%. DraftPad also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.3 vs 3.9). 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.
DraftPad holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 53 and 46 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of DraftPad's written reviews are positive against 11% of News Typing's.
DraftPad ships an update every 5 weeks, News Typing every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DraftPad | News Typing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (53 ratings) — better | 3.9 (46 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.5% of reviews — better | 11.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 46 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manabu Ueno | Hit Apps |
Customer experience
DraftPad
News Typing
Bugs and requests
DraftPad
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when highlighting words
- Keyboard disappearing issue
- Unexpected file creation and growth
Requested features
5 requests- Add dark mode option
- Implement font and formatting options
- Allow creating and managing multiple documents
- Improve export and sharing capabilities
- Implement spell check and grammar assistance
News Typing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
DraftPad
No in-app purchases
News Typing
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is DraftPad free?
Is News Typing free?
Which has better reviews, DraftPad or News Typing?
Do DraftPad or News Typing have ads?
Which is updated more often, DraftPad or News Typing?
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