Comparison

Typing Practice vs ThumbType

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

Head to head
About

Typing Practice

Enhance your typing speed and accuracy with this application. Practice various words and sentences, track your progress with WPM and accuracy metrics, and share your achievements on social media. Its user-friendly interface makes learning seamless.

Highlights
  • Improve typing speed and accuracy
  • Track words per minute (WPM)
  • Monitor accuracy over time
  • Share achievements on Twitter
  • User-friendly interface
Features
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Type faster in just a few minutes a day. TypeMania teaches you to touch type with short, game-like lessons, measures your speed with a real typing test, and shows exactly which keys are slowing you down. LEARN TO TOUCH TYPE • A step-by-step touch typing course: home row, top row, bottom row, then real words • Lessons for 20 keyboard layouts and scripts — QWERTY, QWERTZ, AZERTY, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai, Korean, Hindi and more • Earn up to three stars per lesson for accuracy and speed TYPING SPEED TEST • Take a 15, 30, 60 or 120-second WPM test, or type a set number of words or a famous quote • Live words-per-minute and accuracy as you type • A fresh Daily Challenge every day, always free FIX YOUR WEAK KEYS • TypeMania tracks every key you press and builds drills from the letters you miss most • A keyboard heatmap shows where your accuracy drops TYPING GAMES & RACES • Race other players, or a ghost racer matched to your speed when nobody's online • Weekly and all-time Game Center leaderboards • Combos, personal bests, streaks and satisfying sounds that make practice feel like a game SEE YOUR PROGRESS • WPM and accuracy trends, personal records and day streaks • Share a result card and dare your friends to beat your score Use the on-screen keyboard or a hardware keyboard on iPhone and iPad. Typing content is available in more than 30 languages, from English and Spanish to Turkish, Thai, Japanese and Arabic. FREE AND PRO TypeMania is free to download and gives you free typing tests every day, plus the Daily Challenge and the first stage of the course. TypeMania Pro unlocks unlimited tests, the full touch typing course, weak-key drills, full statistics and an ad-free experience. Start with a free trial — we'll remind you before it ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

ThumbType

Enhance your touchscreen typing speed and accuracy with focused practice. This app offers offline, privacy-first training for various real-world typing scenarios, from quick messages to email and addresses. Track your progress and customize your learning experience.

Highlights
  • Offline typing practice
  • WPM and accuracy tracking
  • Real-world typing scenarios
  • Progress monitoring
  • Customizable practice modes
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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ThumbType is a focused phone typing trainer for anyone who wants faster, cleaner, more confident typing on a touchscreen keyboard. It is built for the moments that actually matter on a phone: short messages, quick replies, school notes, work emails, addresses, codes, numbers, symbols and everyday phrases. Open the app, choose a practice language, type the prompt, and see how your speed, accuracy and spelling improve over time. Privacy is part of the product, not an extra setting: Offline / No Login / Privacy First / On Device / No Cloud Upload. ThumbType works fully offline after installation. There is no account to create, no social feed, no cloud workspace and no sync process. Your typed practice text, WPM results, accuracy, streaks, settings and progress history stay on this device. The app is made for people who want to train without sending their habits, mistakes or learning history to a server. Practice is organized around real phone use. Start with common words to build basic speed, move into sentences for smoother rhythm, then train daily chat phrases that feel like real messages. Email practice helps with school and work replies. Numbers & Symbols builds comfort with things that slow people down on a phone keyboard: email addresses, dates, prices, order numbers, passwords, punctuation and short codes. Address Practice is for streets, cities and zip codes. Pinyin Practice helps you type initials, finals and pinyin phrases with better flow. ThumbType currently includes practice content for English, Portuguese, Spanish and Pinyin Chinese. You can switch the practice language from the Home or Practice screen, and the app UI can follow the iOS per-app language setting. The lessons are stored inside the app, so you can keep practicing on a commute, in a classroom, on a flight, in a library, or anywhere with weak signal. For quick training, use Continue Practice or the Daily Challenge. The daily challenge picks a fresh mixed exercise so a short session still feels varied. For measurement, the Test tab offers 30-Second Sprint, 60-Second Standard and 3-Minute Challenge modes. Type as much as you can before the timer ends, then ThumbType measures WPM and accuracy so you can compare sessions without guessing. Progress is simple and readable. The Home screen shows today’s sessions, best WPM, accuracy and streak. The Progress tab tracks practice time, lessons done, best WPM, average accuracy, day streak, total sessions, recent results and language progress. Instead of a noisy dashboard, ThumbType gives you the numbers that help you decide what to practice next. The app also includes settings that make practice easier to stick with: text size controls, sound effects, haptics, Senior Mode for larger text and gentler pacing, and Kids Mode for shorter lessons with simpler words. Reset progress whenever you want; all saved results are local to the device. ThumbType is intentionally calm. No login wall. No cloud upload. No internet requirement. No complicated course map. Just short, repeatable typing practice for speed, accuracy and spelling, with private on-device progress you can trust. Use ThumbType as a daily warm-up before writing a long message, preparing for class, replying to work, learning a new language, or helping a family member get more comfortable with the phone keyboard. The best sessions are short and regular: a few minutes of focused practice, a quick speed test, then a look at the results. Because everything is offline and on device, you can build the habit anywhere. ThumbType Pro unlocks unlimited practice, all lessons and tests, detailed speed and accuracy trends, every practice language, and Senior and Kids modes. Privacy Policy https://woodcuttool.com/legal/ThumbType/privacy/ Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Typing Practice4 screens
ThumbType4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ThumbType at 5.0 against Typing Practice's 1.0. ThumbType also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). Typing Practice's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Typing Practice sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and ThumbType sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ThumbType holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Typing Practice ships an update every 10 days, ThumbType every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Typing Practice versus ThumbType: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTyping PracticeThumbType
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEbubekir Sezer家宝 戴

Customer experience

Typing Practice

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

ThumbType

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Typing Practice

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Full Access$14.991 Year
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  • Yearly$19.991 Year
2 purchases

ThumbType

Subscriptions2
  • ThumbType Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • ThumbType Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Typing Practice free?
Typing Practice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ThumbType free?
ThumbType is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Typing Practice or ThumbType?
ThumbType is rated higher. Typing Practice averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while ThumbType averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Typing Practice or ThumbType have ads?
Neither Typing Practice nor ThumbType shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Typing Practice or ThumbType?
Typing Practice ships an update every 10 days, and ThumbType every 6 weeks. Most recently, Typing Practice was updated on October 24, 2026 and ThumbType on October 23, 2026.

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