Ghost Type for iPad
A typing tutor to master your iPad typing. Think, learn, create and share.
About Ghost Type
Ghost Type is an iPad typing tutor created with education in mind. It features a unique ghosting keyboard — the letters fade as you type, encouraging you to find keys by memory rather than hunt-and-peck.
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, can be fully edited.
Flexible export and sharing of lessons via email, Dropbox and iTunes. Uses the correct school fonts and multiple student profiles. Teacher or parent lockable to restrict student access and functions.
Features
The best iPad keyboarding skills and development tool available.
- The only typing tutor that allows you to create your own lessons
- Inbuilt lessons from beginner to advanced, including Dolch words
- Flexible export and sharing of lessons via email, Dropbox and iTunes
- 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
- Compatible with external and Bluetooth keyboards
- Social media practice mode (can be disabled by teachers/parents)
- Speed tests with time, WPM and accuracy tracking
- No ads and no in-app purchases
Using the Correct School Fonts
Accessing the correct school fonts while using Ghost Type is simple.
A wide range of fonts including USA, Australian, UK, and NZ styles are available:
Ghost Type uses Beginner Handwriting fonts for all Australian States and Territories, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA — in addition to five standard fonts.
How the Ghost Keyboard Works
Build muscle memory, one keystroke at a time.
The Ghosting Effect
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 or very fast via the settings. You can also turn the Ghost Type keyboard off via the settings, or use a 'partial' setting.
Track Your Progress
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. Once you finish, your various statistics will be recorded.
Press & Reviews
What reviewers and educators are saying about Ghost Type.
"Absolutely excellent keyboarding app for school age kids. As a clinician, I appreciate that you can register multiple users, keep data, and customize this app for a particular child's needs. The ghost feature is a faded prompt as you succeed. I would highly recommend not only this app, but checking out this developer's other apps."
"Ghost Type by Demografix is designed to help people of all ages to type on the iPad with two hands, and you'll also find it might help single-handed typists also, such as those with a physical impairment. The customisable nature of the app means that parents, teachers and therapists will be able to fine-tune it to the needs of their children, students or clients."
"This app has a ton of content and is totally customizable. The addition of school writing fonts is a huge plus in my book and fonts for Australia, NZ, UK and the USA are included. The ghost keyboard is fantastic — great for teaching memory typing. Perfect for use in the classroom."
"It is the first time we came across an app specifically designed to learn how to type on the iPad. It offers many possibilities and will help students improve both typing speed and accuracy. The keyboard is specially designed to help users memorize the position of each letter."
"I think the ghost keyboard is a great idea. The look and feel is great and it's pretty intuitive to use. Multiple profiles, locking aspects of app are excellent ideas — teachers will really love that, especially teachers who don't have 1 to 1 iPads."
Demo Video
Watch Ghost Type in action.
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We would love to hear from you. Please contact us at support@demografix.com.au