Weird Type vs warpAR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Weird Type
Create unique visual art by writing words in augmented reality. Type custom phrases and explore various creative modes to see your text transform in innovative ways. Record and share your AR text creations.
- Draw with text in AR
- Type custom phrases
- Multiple creative modes
- Record and share videos
- Multi-lingual input support
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Have you ever wanted to draw with words? Weird Type is an AR app that lets you paint with text in space! You can type your own phrases and pick from multiple modes and see your text in completely new ways. You can record videos of your messages and share them or save them to you camera roll. It's based on a series of AR experiments that the authors Zach Lieberman and Molmol Kuo have been posting to Instagram over the last few months. People kept asking, "is that an app?" Now, together with our collaborator Design Indaba, which helped produce this, we're packaging some of these experiments into app and we hope you enjoy them! The app is designed by Richard The, with iOS help from Ying Quan Tan, Robby Kraft, and Peter Sibley Note the app now supports multi-lingual input.
warpAR
This app uses augmented reality to distort real-world textures and surfaces. You can reshape buildings or turn murals into colorful swirls with various liquify tools. Create and share unique images and videos of your AR creations.
- Distort real-world surfaces with AR
- Six adjustable liquify tools
- Create unique images and videos
- Share creations easily
- Fun AR effects on various surfaces
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warpAR lets you distort the textures of the real world using augmented reality. Tap and drag to reshape buildings or turn murals into swirls of color using a set of liquify tools. warpAR is great for creating unique images and videos to share. Or you can just have fun trying the effects on different surfaces around you and getting creative. Highlights: • Distort real world surfaces around you using AR. With warpAR's unique style of AR, it really looks like you are distorting the world. • Six different adjustable liquify-style tools for warping reality. • Capture ready to share images and videos of your creations. So give warpAR a try and be sure to share anything fun you create using it
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: warpAR at Free against Weird Type's $0.99. warpAR also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). Weird Type's advantage is ratings volume (814 vs 7) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.5). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
warpAR is free to download; Weird Type costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Weird Type holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weird Type has 814 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of Weird Type's written reviews are positive against 100% of warpAR's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Weird Type ships an update every 3 months, warpAR every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weird Type | warpAR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (814 ratings) — better | 4.7 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 814 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zach Lieberman | Rare Realities, LLC |
Customer experience
Weird Type
warpAR
Bugs and requests
Weird Type
Reported bugs
2 issues- Orientation issues when sharing videos
- Inconsistent performance on older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for more languages
- Allow custom font/color options
- Implement selfie camera mode
- Add audio recording capabilities
- Improve video export quality
warpAR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Weird Type
No in-app purchases
warpAR
No in-app purchases









