Comparison

Ghost Type vs Hieroglyph FlashCards

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Ghost Type

This educational tool helps users master iPad typing skills. It offers pre-built lessons and allows for custom lesson creation using personal content. Features include a unique ghosting keyboard, multiple student profiles, and teacher/parent lockable modes for controlled access.

Highlights
  • Custom lesson creation
  • Ghosting keyboard for memory typing
  • Multiple student profiles
  • Teacher/parent lockable mode
  • Export and share lessons
  • Supports QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak keyboards
Features
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Learning to master the keyboard of an iPad is made easier, with Ghost Type from demografix. An iPad typing tutor created with education in mind. • The only typing tutor that allows you to create your own lessons with your content to suit your child or students • Inbuilt lessons from beginner to advanced, including Dolch words, that can be fully edited • Flexible export and sharing of your lessons via email, Dropbox, iTunes or Airdrop. • Uses the correct school fonts and multiple student profiles • Teacher or parent lockable to restrict student access and functions • Innovative Ghosting keyboard to improve memory typing skills • The best iPad keyboarding skills and development tool available • Selected by many schools under volume education purchases • QWERTZ, AZERTY and Dvorak Keyboards • The correct schoolfonts Accessing the correct school fonts while using Ghost Type is simple and a wide range of fonts including Australian state education fonts, UK, NZ and USA styles are available currently. Ghost Type contains a series of typing lessons that are aimed at improving both typing speed and accuracy on an iPad and features a unique ghosting keyboard option, aiding the user in memorizing the layout of the iPad keyboard. Create, save and share your own lessons to suit your own curriculum and year levels, with complete control over the management of the lessons. Use your spelling lists or any other content for your students or child to learn, all while learning iPad typing at the same time. The Ghost Type keyboard displays the letters until you start typing. Type the correct letter and the keys on the keyboard remain faded out. Pause your typing, and the letters will fade back in. The fade-in speed can be set as very slow, slow, normal, fast and very fast via the settings. You can also turn the Ghost Type keyboard off via the settings and use a ‘partial’ setting. The app is also fully compatible with external keyboards. The app is in landscape mode only and does not support the Apple portrait dock. • A lockable app As a parent or teacher you can lock the app into a restricted student mode. When in student mode, lessons cannot be created or deleted and profiles cannot be changed. Other options are available depending on your teacher/parent choices. These include access to the Ghost Write function, home screen options and access to any external links. Fully COPPA compliant. • Take a Lesson or a Speed Test The lessons work much like traditional typing programs on computers you may have used when you first learned to type. As you type in the characters, they’ll be lightened out. Your current character will be highlighted in green, while mistyped characters will be highlighted in red. As you type you’ll see the time elapsed, your average words per minute (wpm), and your accuracy percentage. The aim is to try to type in the words as fast as you can without looking at the virtual keys. Once you finish, your various statistics will be recorded. You will discover that it’s not that hard to gain speed and accuracy on the iPad keyboard. “I think the ghost keyboard is a great idea. The look and feel is great and it's pretty intuitive to us. Multiple profiles, locking aspects of app are excellent ideas - teachers will really love that, especially teachers who don't have 1 to 1 iPads.” Richard, Australian Teacher. "Congratulations on a great app.. As a touch typist on a standard keyboard it is sometimes a struggle to translate that skill to the iPad, but just a short time on Ghost Type has already retuned my brain to be faster and more accurate than I would have imagined... Anyone using an iPad, adult or child will benefit greatly from this app." Fun AND educational ***** by Critical analyst Also a big thanks to the US District that purchased 1800 copies recently. Thanks from us! Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/demografix.pty.ltd Twitter : http://twitter.com/demografix_au

About

Hieroglyph FlashCards

Master ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs with comprehensive flashcard decks covering alphabets, phonetics, deities, and more. Designed for offline use, this app offers challenges for all skill levels to reinforce daily learning.

Highlights
  • Extensive flashcard decks
  • Covers alphabet, phonetics, deities, and more
  • Includes determinatives and logograms
  • Pharaoh and place name cards
  • Offline functionality
  • Widgets for passive learning
Features
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Simply the best, most complete set of Flash Cards for Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs! For anyone who enjoys Ancient Egypt: Students, Enthusiasts, and Professionals! There are plenty of challenges at all skill levels!   Use this app to learn and reinforce new glyphs every day. 13 Decks of Cards: 22 Egyptian Alphabet cards. Just the consonants to get started! 36 Glyphs with double consonants (common biliterals) 558 Phonetics cards with both Manual de Codage and English pronunciations 50 Deities with cards for both Hieroglyph Names, and with Images 611 Hieroglyph Determinitive cards. Determinatives help specify a word's meaning. 486 Hieroglyph Logograms (where a single hieroglyph represents a word) 237 Pharaohs Cards for Dynasties 1 through 30 237 Pharaoh's Cartouches 53 Phrases from the magical "Offering Formula" 3579 Non-Royal titles and occupations 80 Place Names 46 Nomes (with Alternates) Widgets included for passive learning from Home screens and Lock Screen Designed for off-line use, no internet required! Glyph data based on R. Hannig's Grosses Handwoerterbuch Aegyptisch-Deutsch, Marburger Edition, 2006

Screenshots

Hieroglyph FlashCards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hieroglyph FlashCards at 5.0 against Ghost Type's 4.0. Hieroglyph FlashCards also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). Ghost Type's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $3.99) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.2). On ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Ghost Type costs $2.99 and Hieroglyph FlashCards $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hieroglyph FlashCards holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Ghost Type's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hieroglyph FlashCards's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ghost Type ships an update every 3 months, Hieroglyph FlashCards every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Ghost Type versus Hieroglyph FlashCards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGhost TypeHieroglyph FlashCards
Price$2.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings44
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.2
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerdemografix pty ltdAviametrix, LLC

Customer experience

Ghost Type

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative30.8%

Hieroglyph FlashCards

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Ghost Type

No in-app purchases

None

Hieroglyph FlashCards

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ghost Type free?
Ghost Type costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hieroglyph FlashCards free?
Hieroglyph FlashCards costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ghost Type or Hieroglyph FlashCards?
Hieroglyph FlashCards is rated higher. Ghost Type averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Hieroglyph FlashCards averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Ghost Type or Hieroglyph FlashCards have ads?
Neither Ghost Type nor Hieroglyph FlashCards shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ghost Type or Hieroglyph FlashCards?
Ghost Type ships an update every 3 months, and Hieroglyph FlashCards every 2 weeks. Most recently, Ghost Type was updated on October 3, 2026 and Hieroglyph FlashCards on October 10, 2026.

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