What TotType is, and who makes it
TotType is a free browser typing site for children from toddlers to middle school, and for their teachers. It starts as a keyboard a baby can smash without breaking anything, grows into 41 learning games sorted by age, and goes on to a 59-game arcade for every kid, with class links for teachers — in English and Spanish, with nothing to install.
In one paragraph
The home page is a fullscreen keyboard playground: every key a toddler presses shows a giant letter (almost always with a picture of something that starts with it), a number with that many little things to count, or one of 34 hand-drawn friends. In Chrome and Edge fullscreen the keyboard lock captures shortcuts such as Ctrl+W, so a stray key does not close the tab; Safari and Firefox have no lock, and the Windows key and Cmd+Q always get through. The learning games take a child from letter recognition to real sentences, each tagged with the age it suits. The arcade is a separate, free hall of original classics — a maze chase, a typing shooter, mini golf, pinball and more — for kids who have outgrown the toddler games but still benefit from fast, accurate keys. Progress, badges and a leaderboard nickname live under a parent's account.
Facts at a glance
- Ages
- Toddlers to middle school: the playground from about 1, learning games to 12, and the arcade for every kid
- Teachers
- Class links: children join with a code and never need accounts
- Learning games
- 41, each age-tagged
- Arcade games
- 59, all free: a demo run with no account, unlimited with a free account
- Languages
- English and Spanish across the site (the guides, game pages and legal pages; class and account pages are in English), plus the keyboard playground and a parents’ guide in French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Polish
- Devices
- Any modern browser — desktop, tablet, phone; touch and keyboard
- Cost
- Free; optional Family ($4.99/month) and Family Plus ($9.99/month) plans, and a Classroom plan for teachers ($14.99/month or $99/year)
- Made by
- Equal Tech Solutions, Cleveland, Tennessee, USA
- Contact
- [email protected] · contact form
What we will never do
No chat, ever.
No player can send a message to another player. The two-player games share a screen or a room code, never a text box.
No ads where children play.
The keyboard playground and every learning-game and arcade-game page carry no ad units and request no ads. Ads appear on our other pages, such as the game lists, guides and the blog, and never for a signed-in account on a paid plan. Outside the blog, which is written for adults, every ad request asks for non-personalised ads, and our units are also tagged child-directed.
As little as possible about a child.
The playground sends only a count of key presses, never which keys. Signed-in play keeps points, best scores and badges per parent account, and key counts and learning progress per nickname profile, so the dashboard works. A teacher's class link can keep each child's first name and scores for that class, shown to anyone who has the link. Never the text a child typed in a game or test; the privacy page lists every item.
An adult holds the account.
Every account belongs to a parent or a teacher. Children never get accounts of their own: they play under a nickname profile, or join a teacher's class link with just a first name or no name at all.
Original games, original art.
All 100 games are built here. No licensed characters, no embedded third-party games, no downloads.
Free means free.
The playground and 15 learning games cost nothing and need no account; anyone can try a demo run of any arcade game, and the whole arcade is free and unlimited with a free account and a verified email. Two optional family plans (Family $4.99/month, Family Plus $9.99/month) unlock the remaining learning games, each of which has a free 60-second demo, and one of them is free for everyone each week; a teacher's Classroom plan ($14.99/month or $99/year) also puts them in that teacher's class links. Cancel any time from the dashboard.
Who makes it
TotType is built and run by Equal Tech Solutions, an IT services company in Cleveland, Tennessee. It began as a keyboard toy for the founder's own toddler and grew into the site you are reading. The games are written in-house; the art is original; the copy is written by people, not generated.
Questions, a billing problem or an idea for a game: the contact page reaches a person, usually within a day. The privacy page says in plain words what is stored and why, and the terms are short enough to read.