Mochi Type Changelog

Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and fixes in Mochi Type.

v1.2.0

New

  • Ready for macOS 27 Golden Gate — Mochi Type is built with the macOS 27 SDK and checked against the new release, so it looks and behaves right on Golden Gate from day one.
  • Choose how long a Learn session runs — Set a lesson to 1, 2, 3 or 5 minutes — or pick ∞ and drop the timer entirely. With ∞ you type as long as you like and press Esc whenever you're done to see your results. Idea by Arto

Improvements

  • Lessons 1 and 2 unlock at 90% accuracy — The first two lessons are where you're still finding the keys, so they now open the next one at 90% accuracy instead of 95%. Every lesson after that keeps the 95% bar.

v1.1.9

New

  • Delete a session right from the chart — Spotted a stray result on your progress chart? Right-click the point and delete it — no need to hunt for it in the history list. Idea by Marco

Fixes

  • Average speed in CPM mode is now the real average — If you measure your speed in characters per minute, the Average tile used to show your words-per-minute average multiplied by five — close, but not quite your number. Now it's the true average of your CPM results. Reported by James
  • Deleted sessions disappear immediately — Deleting a session from its details screen sometimes left the row in the history list until you switched windows. It goes away right away now. Reported by Marco

Improvements

  • Your speed unit, everywhere — Stability, Skill Score, the Best legend and the Consistency footer used to say “WPM” even when you'd switched to CPM. They now follow your unit.
  • Small refinements throughout — A few little fixes here and there. Nothing changes in how you type — it just runs a little smoother.

v1.1.8

New

  • Mochi Type now speaks French — Every screen, hint and stat is now in French. Switch the language in Settings ▸ General.

Fixes

  • Your CPM score is now spot on — If you measure your speed in characters per minute, your best score could show up a few characters lower than what you actually typed — 460 instead of 463, for example. Now your records, history and charts show exactly what you did. Reported by Marco

Improvements

  • Small refinements throughout — A few little fixes here and there. Nothing changes in how you type — it just runs a little smoother.

v1.1.7

Improvements

  • No more crash on macOS 26 — Mochi Type could quit when the Mac woke from sleep while the app was in full screen on macOS 26. Fixed.
  • Small improvements throughout — A round of interface polish and stability work under the hood. Nothing to relearn — everything just sits a little better.

v1.1.6

New

  • Two themes for color-blind vision — Clarity Dark is built for red-green color blindness; Ink Mono drops color altogether and works in pure black and white. Both are free. Alongside them, a setting that makes every hint in the app readable without color at all: mistakes are marked by shape, and statistics stop using hue to tell good from bad.
  • Type Chinese with Pinyin — Mochi Type now teaches Chinese. The full sixteen-lesson course, with the characters shown under the pinyin as you type it — so you always see the word you are producing. Three Chinese word sets come with it: confusable sounds, sayings from the classics, and lines from the great novels. Five books to read through, from a beginner's primer to Tang poetry.
  • Double Pinyin, if that is how you type — Two schemes are built in — Xiaohe and Ziranma — spelling every syllable in exactly two keys. Turn one on in Settings and the key map appears right on the on-screen keyboard. The course itself stays in full pinyin: that is where the fingers are set.
  • Mochi Type now speaks Chinese — The whole interface — menus, settings, statistics, results — is now translated into Simplified Chinese.

Improvements

  • Practice in minutes, not seconds — Practice sessions now run for 1, 2, 3 or 5 minutes. The old durations were counted in seconds, which read oddly next to a course measured in lessons.
  • Settings, reorganized — Six panes became four, and the theme picker is now a grid of previews instead of a list fourteen rows long — you can see what a theme looks like before choosing it.
  • Smoother with VoiceOver — The typing area, the results screen and the statistics all read in a sensible order now, and the keyboard announces the next key without interrupting itself.

v1.1.5

New

  • Demo books in four languages — The Custom Texts section now comes with demo books to type your way through: a verb workbook, a travel phrasebook, a Python syntax workbook and classic reading — five each in English, German, Russian and Ukrainian. Open one like any custom text and Mochi remembers where you stopped.
  • Start at a random paragraph — Custom texts have a new start option, so every session begins somewhere else and a long text never runs the same way twice.
  • Search your library — Find any text from the sidebar — demo books and your own imports alike.

Improvements

  • Tidier right-click menu — The typing area's context menu is grouped into clear sections, and editing a custom text is one click — or ⌘T — away.
  • Polish — Cleaner paragraph markers, a better VoiceOver reading order, and small fixes throughout.

v1.1.4

New

  • Mochi Type ahora habla español — The whole interface is now available in Spanish — switch the language in Settings.
  • Stats export — Export your statistics to JSON or CSV, with a full per-key breakdown — your data is yours to analyze.

Improvements

  • On-screen keyboard labels — Keys are now labeled to match your selected layout.
  • Faster iCloud on first launch — The connection is quicker and heals itself if the first attempt fails.
  • Polish — Tidier stat tiles, a lighter app, and small fixes throughout.

v1.1.3

New

  • Mochi Type speaks Russian, Ukrainian, and German — The whole interface is translated — switch the language in Settings.

Improvements

  • A clearer content picker in Practice — Three tidy columns, easier to read, more of your custom texts at a glance.
  • Steadier iCloud sync — Smoother, more dependable syncing right from launch, plus interface refinements throughout.

v1.1.2

New

  • Practice on your own texts — Paste any passage, or import a .txt, .md, .rtf, or .epub file — an article, a book, your notes — and type it. Mochi cleans it up for typing and remembers your place.
  • Your texts on every Mac — Imported texts and reading positions sync privately across your Macs with iCloud.

Improvements

  • Smoother session starts — Typing is fluid from the very first word of a fast session, with a round of reliability fixes across the app.

v1.1.1

New

  • Mochi Type has switched to a freemium model — Already bought Mochi Type? Nothing changes for you. The app is now a free download with a one-time In-App Purchase that opens the full version — and as an existing buyer you already own it: everything stays unlocked automatically, forever, at no extra cost. If the app ever asks you to buy the unlock (it shouldn't), just press Restore Purchase and everything comes right back.
  • Reduce Transparency — A new option in Settings › General. Turn it on for solid window backgrounds instead of the frosted blur — cleaner, and easier on the eyes.

Improvements

  • Apostrophes that match your keyboard — Words with apostrophes in Ukrainian, French, Italian and English now accept whichever apostrophe key your layout has — the native one, a straight ', or a curly '. No more errors for your own keyboard's apostrophe, and the hint points right to it.

v1.1.0

New

  • Word Emphasis — a new Font option — The start of each word is set a little bolder — which some people find easier to follow while they type. Turn it on in the Font menu; it only changes how the text looks, never what you type.

Improvements

  • Refined UI — A sharper full-screen keyboard and a cleaner first-run setup, now tuned for macOS Light Mode.
  • Full screen that fits your theme — In full screen, the background now takes on your selected theme's color instead of a washed-out system gray.
  • Under the hood — A steadier, more reliable Mochi.

v1.0

New

  • Hello, Mochi Type — The first release on the Mac App Store: a guided touch-typing course, free practice on real words in 21 languages and 48 keyboard layouts, per-key statistics, color themes, sound packs, and private iCloud sync.