The comparison

MyType alternative: the same idea, without the login

mytype.fyi is the original face test, and it is genuinely good. It is also the reason the phrase my type fyi is suddenly everywhere. This page is the honest comparison: what it does, what we do differently, and where we are worse.

TypeTap is not affiliated with mytype.fyi or My Type FYI LLC. Nobody from that company has reviewed this page, and what follows describes its product as its own homepage presented it at the time of writing. If their product changes, this page should change with it.

What mytype.fyi is, and what it asks for

mytype.fyi shows a grid of faces and lets you keep tapping: every face you tap is replaced. Its own description calls it a ten-minute test, and the comparison pages written about it put the format at around twenty rounds of faces. When the result is ready, it asks you to sign in with Google, X or email before it will show you the card. The result is a type name, the hidden gems you would like, and the people who are not your type.

That is a real product, and the sign-in is not a scam. It is how the site knows who you are, keeps your result across devices, and builds toward a dating product.

Our objection is narrower than it sounds. For a ninety-second test, a login costs more than the test itself, especially on a phone.

Side by side

What a visitor notices, not a scorecard. Where we are worse, the table says so.

What the twenty rounds buy, and what six do not

Twenty rounds is a lot of signal, and it lets a result speak to edge cases that six rounds cannot. If you want the most detailed version of this test, the original is the right place to take it.

Six rounds is not an attempt to be as thorough. It is a bet that four rounds cover enough of the space to find the line between what you tap and what you skip, and that rounds five and six, aimed at that line, are worth more than eight more rounds of the same thing.

That bet can be wrong for you. If your taste is unusually narrow, or you are tapping on something the ten tags do not capture, a shorter run will show it as a flat or noisy card. The card will still print.

What no login actually changes

Three things, and only the third is about privacy.

Speed. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to verify, nothing to come back to. A ninety-second test that opens with a minute of account setup is a three-minute test.

Mobile. A login wall on a phone means leaving the page, and a page you left is a page you often do not return to. This test is one screen with twelve faces on it.

Data. Your taps are processed in the browser and never uploaded. What does leave is an anonymous page event — no cookies, no IP, no identity — and, if you choose to make one, a share link you create. The privacy page lists the rest.

What you give up

A smaller face pool than the original. No account, so your result does not follow you between devices. No dating product. No history of your results over time. Fewer archetype pages than the sites that publish dozens of them, because we would rather have six rounds that work than sixty pages of names.

If any of that is the thing you came for, use the original.

If you want the original

It is at mytype.fyi. We are not affiliated with it and we do not earn anything if you go.

If you want the version without a login, it is on the front page: take the face test, about ninety seconds, no account.

Questions people ask about the alternative