Comparison

Speed Typing vs Thumbs

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Thumbs

Features
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Thumbs measures how fast you actually type — on the keyboard you use all day. Every typing test was designed for a desk. Ten fingers, a Tab key to restart, and a screen wide enough to read a paragraph ahead. Thumbs keeps what those tests got right and rebuilds the rest around a phone. WORDS PER MINUTE, MEASURED PROPERLY Correct characters over five, per minute — the same standard every typing test uses, so your number means something outside this app. Raw speed is reported next to it, so you can see exactly what accuracy is costing you. SEE EVERY MISTAKE AS YOU MAKE IT Correct letters darken as you type them. Wrong ones turn red, showing the letter you should have hit rather than the one you did. A word you got wrong keeps a red underline after you have moved on, so the mistake is still there when you look back. BUILT FOR THUMBS Autocorrect, predictive text and smart punctuation are all off — a typing test should measure you, not your keyboard's guesses. Delete on an empty word steps back into the previous one, so a fumbled word can be repaired. Every mistake gets a short haptic tap, because thumb typing gives you no other signal that a key went wrong. CHOOSE THE TEST Race a clock at 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds, or a fixed 10, 25, 50 or 100 words. Turn on punctuation for real sentences with capitals and full stops, or numbers to practise the part of the keyboard everyone avoids. FOUR NUMBERS THAT MATTER Speed, accuracy, raw speed, and consistency — how even your pace was, so a steady typist is told apart from one who sprints and stalls at the same average. Every test is kept, with personal bests for each length. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account, no sign-in, no network. Your results are stored on your device and go nowhere else. There is no analytics, no tracking and no advertising.

Screenshots

Speed Typing4 screens
Thumbs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Thumbs at none against Speed Typing's 1. Speed Typing's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Speed Typing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Thumbs asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Speed Typing versus Thumbs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpeed TypingThumbs
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size141 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer永友 黄Irfan Furniturewala

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Speed Typing

One-time1
  • Speed Typing Premium$2.99
None

Thumbs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Speed Typing free?
Speed Typing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Thumbs free?
Thumbs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Speed Typing or Thumbs have ads?
Neither Speed Typing nor Thumbs shows ads.

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