Free & open-source typing practice

Inktype.

Type your way through the books you always meant to read.

Books / A Tale of Two Cities — WPM — ACC

Watching a demo — click to try it yourself

Effect

Run your own in one command ★ Star on GitHub

No accounts required · No ads · No tracking · MIT licence

Typing through Pride and Prejudice in the Classic Dark look — The reading console — only the page, the cursor and your pace.

Settings drawer with ten looks — Settings slide in from the right; every effect previews before you pick it.

Library with real book covers — 70,000+ books with real covers, fetched only when you open one.

George Orwell's author page — Author profiles gather their books from every library.

Stats with WPM chart — Speed over time, streaks and a heatmap of your weak keys.

Everything included. Free forever.

Inspired by typelit.io, rebuilt from scratch as open source. Nothing is locked, nothing is metered.

A careful typing engine

Mistakes inline in red, fix-before-continue or keep-going modes, the current line always centred, pages that turn themselves, idle time never counted.

Effects & backgrounds

14 typing effects, 9 cursor trails and 10 animated backgrounds — Fireworks, Embers, Night Sky, Digital Rain, Hearth…

Ten looks, 31 themes, 38 fonts

One click sets theme, font, cursor and background. Every theme is editable; fonts include Literata, Atkinson Hyperlegible and OpenDyslexic.

Honest stats

Live and average WPM, accuracy, streaks, weekly and monthly charts, a keyboard heatmap — exportable as JSON.

Local-first & offline

Progress lives in your browser. Install it as an app; books you've opened stay typeable offline. Optional sync on your own server.

English & Türkçe

The whole interface in English or Turkish, a Turkish Q on-screen keyboard, and search that understands titles in any language.

Your own texts

Paste an essay, a poem or your notes — or import any web page — and type through it page by page.

Private by design

No analytics, no third-party requests from your browser: fonts, covers and books are served by your own Inktype server.

Three libraries, one search box

70,000+

Project Gutenberg

Every public-domain book, with covers, genres and languages.

9,000+

Vikikaynak

Turkish literature — Ömer Seyfettin, Halit Ziya, Namık Kemal, Yunus Emre and more.

life + 70

PG Australia

Classics like Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, public domain in Turkey and the EU.

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Animal FarmGeorge Orwell · PG Australia

Titles resolve through Wikidata, so a Turkish title finds the original — and typing an author's name opens their profile.

Yours in one command

Inktype is a single container with an SQLite file. Run it on a laptop, a Raspberry Pi or a small server.

Docker

$ git clone https://github.com/lunanoir21/inktype.git
$ cd inktype
$ docker compose up -d
# → http://localhost:3000

Development

$ pnpm install
$ cp apps/web/.env.example apps/web/.env
$ pnpm db:migrate
$ pnpm dev

Next.js 14 · TypeScript · Tailwind · Prisma + SQLite · Vitest · Playwright · MIT licence

Made with vibe coding

Built in conversation

Inktype was vibe-coded: the design, the typing engine, the libraries, the effects, the translations and the tests were all written together with an AI coding assistant (Claude Code), steered by a person who described what they wanted and reviewed every step.

It is covered by unit and end-to-end tests that run on every push, and it is open source — contributions from people and their assistants alike are welcome.

Read the code