Emoji Ninja: Type to Slash
Your keyboard is the sword
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Emoji fly up the screen. You type their names to slash them before they land.
That is the whole game, and it reads in about four seconds. The keyboard is the controller — there is nothing to tap, nothing to swipe, nothing to aim.
THE GAME LEARNS HOW FAST YOU TYPE
Most games hand you an easy, medium and hard button and hope one of them fits. Emoji Ninja measures your real typing speed while you play, and moves the spawn interval, the fall time and the length of the words with it.
A slow typist gets a rhythm game. A fast typist gets something frantic. Both are playing the game that was built for them, and neither had to choose.
A HUNDRED LEVELS, AND A REAL SUMMIT
The ladder runs to level 100, where Grandmaster asks for 60 words a minute with the whole emoji set in play. Getting there is a genuine climb — the difficulty curve was measured by running ten modelled typists through every level, not felt out by hand.
WHAT IS IN IT
• Over 1,800 emoji, drawn from the full Unicode set
• 100 levels, from a gentle opening to a summit that will take practice
• 25 Game Center achievements and leaderboards
• Bombs, freezes and hammers, and the discipline to know when to spend them
• Blades and slash effects to change how a cut looks
IT IS A SKILL TEST, SO IT REFUSES HELP
Autocorrect, predictive text, spell-check and dictation are all switched off. Swiped words are refused outright and the game tells you why — a word arriving all at once would be scored as though you typed it instantly, and the leaderboard would stop meaning anything.
FAIR BY DESIGN
Every level, every emoji and every achievement is in the free game. The shop sells how the game looks, plus two helpers that stop working at level 80 so the last stretch is the same for everyone.
There is one optional rewarded video at the end of a level, limited to three a day. No banners. No interstitials. No advert ever plays unless you ask for it.
Made by one person in Texas.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
The shop is open. Pick up a new blade (Falchion, Cutlass, Claymore), give your slashes a new look (Embers, Frostburst, Deep Water), or stock up on Hammers and Freezes for the hard levels. Everything the game plays is still free.
The developer, Shawn Gilligan, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Shawn Gilligan
- Size
- 6.6 MB
- Category
- Casual
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Guns or Other Weapons
Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Hammer Crate $7.99
- Hammer Pack $2.99
- Hammer $0.99
- Deep Water $0.99
- Embers $0.99
- Frostburst $0.99
- Cutlass $1.99
- Falchion $1.99
- Claymore $1.99
- Ten Freezes $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 GilliganSoftware LLC
