Comparison

Weird Type vs Speech To 3D Text

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Speech To 3D Text

Convert your speech into animated 3D text that appears on your device screen. You can customize font and background colors, choose different text motions, and save your creations as video clips. It supports various view modes and orientations for a fun, interactive experience.

Highlights
  • Speech to animated 3D text
  • Customizable font and background colors
  • Multiple text motion options
  • Save as video clip
  • Pinch to zoom and pan
  • Portrait and Landscape support
Features
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Speech To 3D Text are great toys for converting speech to animate 3d text on your device screen, see how these 3d text appears while talking is a little joy to have. You can also turn all speech into video clip and save it into camera roll. Features: • Able to set font colour from white, black or random colour. • Able to set the font type for speech. • Able to set background colour light or dark. • Able to set view mode from 3D Perspective View, Top View or Isometry View. • Able to pinch to zoom and pan to navigate 3d scene. • 4 type of textual motion for selection, none, back, left, right or random. • Able to set ground on or off. • Able to set voice input languages. • Ability to save the scene into a movie clip. • Support both Portrait and Landscape orientation. • Lightweight app with a small size, optimized for everyday use. Quick Start: • Tap on the microphone icon and start talking, 3d text are auto appear on screen. • Tap again on the microphone icon to stop, replay button are auto appear beside the microphone icon. • You can Tap on the replay button to record 3d screen into a movie clip, while recording you can pinch to zoom and pan to navigate the 3d scene to get the perfect shot. • The screen recording will stop automatically once the time is up. • To Stop the screen recording manually, you can tap on top right corner anytime during recording. You can share the record speech video clip with your family and friends as well as use it as a presentation of your homework, use it based on your imagination and have fun with it. Thanks for your support and do visit nitrio.com for more apps for your iOS devices.

Screenshots

Weird Type4 screens
Speech To 3D Text4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Weird Type at every 3 months against Speech To 3D Text's every 45 months. Weird Type also leads on ratings volume (814 vs 1) and price ($0.99 vs $2.99). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Weird Type costs $0.99 and Speech To 3D Text $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Weird Type against 5.0 for Speech To 3D Text. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weird Type has 814 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Weird Type ships an update every 3 months, Speech To 3D Text every 45 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Weird Type versus Speech To 3D Text: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeird TypeSpeech To 3D Text
Price$0.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.9 (814 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings814 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 45 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better13
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZach LiebermanHeng Jia Liang

Customer experience

Weird Type

All ratings814 ratings
Positive97.4%
Neutral0.9%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews155 reviews
Positive87.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative5.8%

Speech To 3D Text

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Speech To 3D Text

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Weird Type

No in-app purchases

None

Speech To 3D Text

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Weird Type free?
Weird Type costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Speech To 3D Text free?
Speech To 3D Text costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Weird Type or Speech To 3D Text?
Speech To 3D Text is rated higher. Weird Type averages 4.9 out of 5 from 814 ratings, while Speech To 3D Text averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Weird Type or Speech To 3D Text have ads?
Neither Weird Type nor Speech To 3D Text shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Weird Type or Speech To 3D Text?
Weird Type ships an update every 3 months, and Speech To 3D Text every 45 months. Most recently, Weird Type was updated on October 19, 2026 and Speech To 3D Text on October 7, 2026.

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