Autograph app vs altDQ
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Autograph app
This application allows users to digitally sign their name on a smartphone screen, eliminating the need for pens and paper. Signed images can be easily saved and shared on social media platforms.
- Digital autograph drawing
- No pens or paper required
- Save autograph images
- Upload to social media
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This app is a simple board for writing autographs by smartphone. Pens or paper are unnecessary. You can draw autographs on the screen with your finger. You can easily save autograph images and upload them to SNS.
altDQ
Explore a seminal 1986 digital art piece in an immersive 3D space. Interact with the artwork to reveal hidden code, hypertext, and behind-the-scenes stories about its creation.
- 3D space exploration
- Tap to reveal code and hypertext
- View artwork from both sides
- See dimensional photos
- Behind-the-scenes stories
- Interactive elements
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April Greiman's Does it Make Sense?, created in 1986 for Design Quarterly is on display at LACMA's Digital Witness exhibit. The work explored the use of Apple's Macintosh computer to assemble a collage of illustrative assets and words -- delivered on paper, Z space implied. Now this work can be viewed in X | Y | Z space using a smartphone or tablet. Here are features to explore: tap the screen to reveal related code and hypertext tap again to turn them off see inside photos that have become dimensional witness this display on both sides of the artwork video and images on the back side present stories of the process of making of the original work
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: altDQ at weekly against Autograph app's every 3 months. Autograph app's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Autograph app against 5.0 for altDQ. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Autograph app ships an update every 3 months, altDQ weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Autograph app | altDQ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 445 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jun Nomura | Isovist Limited (UK) |
Customer experience
Autograph app
altDQ
In-app purchases
Autograph app
No in-app purchases
altDQ
No in-app purchases
