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.
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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Weird Type | Speech To 3D Text |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (814 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 814 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 45 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zach Lieberman | Heng Jia Liang |
Customer experience
Weird Type
Speech To 3D Text
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
Weird Type
No in-app purchases
Speech To 3D Text
No in-app purchases
Questions
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