TextTutor vs ThumbType
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TextTutor
This app focuses on developing typing fluency in Russian, teaching essential words and keyboard layouts. It aims to help users keep up with conversations and feel confident in their typing skills. Future language support is planned.
- Develop typing fluency
- Learn essential Russian words
- Master keyboard layout
- Understand local slang
- Improve conversational speed
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TextTutor is the missing piece for your Russian language learning experience. While most language apps have you speak, drag, or match words, TextTutor makes sure you are fluent, not just at speaking but typing as well. Never miss the conversation. TextTutor gets you typing the most essential words fast, so you can keep up in the group chat. Feel confident in your typing abilities. You will learn where every letter is on the keyboard, and learn the slang that local speakers use to speak more quickly and fluently. App currently supports the Russian language, but others are coming soon. Have an idea for a feature? reach out! We want to make an app that you want to use.
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.
- Offline typing practice
- WPM and accuracy tracking
- Real-world typing scenarios
- Progress monitoring
- Customizable practice modes
- Privacy-focused design
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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/
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Verdict
TextTutor and ThumbType are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. TextTutor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TextTutor against 5.0 for ThumbType. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | TextTutor | ThumbType |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lilo Labs, LLC | 家宝 戴 |
Customer experience
TextTutor
ThumbType
In-app purchases
TextTutor
- Swear Jar$2.99
ThumbType
- ThumbType Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- ThumbType Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year









