Speed Typing vs Gentle Screen Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speed Typing
Master typing speed and accuracy across over 120 languages with this comprehensive practice app. Track progress with detailed statistics, enjoy a distraction-free interface, and utilize custom practice articles. Unlock premium features for unlimited access and enhanced sound options.
- 120+ language support
- Real-time WPM/CPM tracking
- Detailed statistics and trend charts
- Custom practice articles
- Professional keyboard sound effects
- Unlimited practice sessions (Premium)
- Lifetime premium access
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Transform Your Typing Skills with the Ultimate Multi-Language Practice App Speed Typing is the most comprehensive typing practice app available, supporting over 120 languages with professional features designed to help you master typing speed and accuracy. Whether you're learning a new language, improving your WPM, or mastering a different keyboard layout, this app is your perfect companion. Practice typing in 120+ languages, from English and Spanish to Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and beyond. We support 50+ languages for free users, with Premium unlocking the full library. Each language features carefully curated word lists perfect for learners and professionals alike. Track your progress with comprehensive statistics. Every practice session provides real-time WPM (Words Per Minute) or CPM (Characters Per Minute) depending on the language, accuracy percentages, error analysis, and detailed performance metrics. Watch your improvement over time with beautiful trend charts and session history. Enjoy an immersive typing experience with professional keyboard sounds. Premium users can choose from 9 high-quality sound effects including mechanical keyboards, vintage typewriter clicks, modern gaming keyboard sounds, and authentic Cherry MX switch sounds. The clean, distraction-free interface keeps you focused on improvement. Create custom practice articles to focus on specific content. Free users can create 1 custom article, while Premium users enjoy up to 100. Perfect for practicing specialized vocabulary, technical terms, or content relevant to your work or studies. Every practice session is automatically saved with detailed statistics. Review your typing history anytime, compare your performance across different languages, see original text versus your typed text, and identify patterns in your mistakes. Free users can access their last 5 sessions, while Premium users enjoy unlimited history. Premium features include unlimited daily practice sessions (vs 15 for free users), access to all 120+ languages, 9 professional keyboard sounds, up to 100 custom articles, unlimited session history, and all future premium features. Best of all, Premium is a one-time purchase with lifetime access - no subscriptions or recurring charges. Perfect for language learners practicing typing in new scripts, multilingual professionals working in multiple languages, programmers improving typing speed with special characters, students boosting productivity, writers increasing output efficiency, and anyone looking to enhance their typing skills. Built with native SwiftUI for iOS and macOS, delivering smooth performance and a beautiful user experience. Your data stays completely private on your device - no accounts required, no data collection, no ads. Just pure, focused typing practice. Start your typing journey today and experience why Speed Typing is the top choice for multilingual typing practice and skill improvement.
Gentle Screen Time
This app helps families establish healthier screen time habits by wrapping addictive apps in timed sessions. It introduces a rhythm of usage and rest without surveillance or negotiation, allowing intentional app engagement.
- Timed app sessions with beginnings and ends
- Automatic app locking after sessions
- Intentional app opening friction
- Remote family management
- Customizable session and rest lengths
- No content monitoring or surveillance
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Most screen time apps work by capping you. They set hard limits, block apps for the rest of the day, and leave you locked out the moment you hit a number. Gentle works differently. There are no usage limits and no permanent blocks. You move through a rhythm of sessions and rests, and your total screen time drops, often dramatically, without anything being capped or taken away for good. Here's how it works. You start a session and have full, unlimited access to everything on your phone. When the session ends, a short rest begins, a brief pause where your controlled apps become unavailable for a few minutes. When the rest ends, your apps return, ready for your next session. No daily cutoffs. No "you're out of time." Just a gentle in-and-out rhythm that adds up to far less screen time. Gentle is for people who've tried strict limits and bounced off them. If hitting a wall every day has never worked, a gentle rhythm of sessions and rests might. Use everything you love, in a calmer cadence. Lower your screen time. No limits, no daily cutoffs, just a gentler rhythm. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.gentlescreentime.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Gentle Screen Time at 5.0 against Speed Typing's 3.0. Gentle Screen Time also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Speed Typing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Gentle Screen Time sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Gentle Screen Time holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
Speed Typing ships an update every 2 months, Gentle Screen Time weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speed Typing | Gentle Screen Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 141 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 永友 黄 | Joseph Casey |
Customer experience
Speed Typing
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In-app purchases
Speed Typing
- Speed Typing Premium$2.99
Gentle Screen Time
- One Week Subscription$0.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
- Monthly Family Plan7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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- Yearly Subscription$29.991 Year
- Yearly Family Subscription7 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$74.99
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