Comparison

Art Set 4 vs Handfont

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

Head to head
About

Art Set 4

Experience hyper-realistic digital art creation with advanced tools for painting and drawing. Explore a vast array of brushes, fluid simulations, and 3D paint effects. This app offers a customizable workspace and professional features for artists of all levels.

Highlights
  • Hyper-realistic art tools
  • Fluid watercolor simulation
  • 3D paint effects
  • Customizable workspace
  • Time-lapse video recording
  • PSD export
  • Layer masks
Features
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Art Set has been No.1 iPad app in over 30 countries around the world. Now completely re-written with some of the most advanced artistic digital painting and drawing tools ever created! An 'App of Day', this giant new version has tools with incredible levels of realism and many professional features. Exclusive artistically created brushes, from real world art mediums through to the purely digital for all styles of artwork. Watch fluid Watercolor flow and run as you paint. Express your strokes in 3D giving thick gloopy paint you can even etch back into. It's also a must for any Apple Pencil owner! Art Set brushes have many additional expressions that come into play, some deeply integrated, with new levels of sensitivity you may have never experienced before! It's now free to download for the first time ever! INCLUDED FOR FREE : HYPER-REAL TOOLS - Oil Paint, Watercolors, Oil Pastel, Pencil, Biro Pen, Marker, Wax Crayon, Blenders and more! - Fluid dynamic simulation for Watercolor - 3D Paint - Custom blending achieving rich deep color - Art Set keeps track of where the canvas is wet, dry when needed - Turn on Slow Draw for drawing to lag your stroke. Create smooth curves and lines; great for calligraphy! - Blur Filter with localised quick masking - Color Wheel - User Editable Palette - Metallic Colors - Time-lapse Video Recording; share how you made your artwork stroke by stroke. - PSD Export UI - Fully customizable workspace; have just a single brush or tools on every side of your screen. - Zoom, Pan and Rotate the canvas for fine detail - Light low contrast or Dark high contrast mode - Minimalist UI for less interference with your artwork WORKFLOW - Latest graphics technology written entirely in METAL 2 - Supports the iOS Files app to manage or or transfer documents - iTunes File Sharing - Auto save - Split Screen Multitasking - use a reference image whilst you draw side by side - Export to your photo album, email, AirDrop or social networks etc. - In-depth User Guide in the app complete with video - Import photos and images at screen resolution PREMIUM PRO FEATURES - Single Upgrade Unlocks everything : 200 ADVANCED BRUSHES - Wide variety of extra hyper-real Paints, Pens, Pencils, Inks, Chalks, Pastels, Charcoal, Wet media, Stamps, Splatters, Form, Graphics, Patterns, Fabric, 3D Texture, Neon to basic Pixel and Flat Digital - You can try out all premium brushes on a test area before upgrading! DRAWING - Flood fill - Symmetry - Pixel Art - Shape primitives for Ellipse, Circle, Square, Rectangle and Line in any brush - Echo shapes for special FX - Erase mode - use any brush as an eraser - Adjust brush Size, Opacity, Flow, Grain, Loading and Dynamics LAYERS - Layer Masks - Transform, move, rotate and scale - Flip - Adjust Opacity - Layer maintains resolution whilst transformed - Blend Modes - Alpha lock - Cut, Copy and Paste, to and from other documents or other Apps - Drag and drop layers from other apps - Import from your photos CUSTOM HIGH-RESOLUTION CANVASES - Choose any resolution canvas size, the highest being dependent on your device capabilities - Set DPI and canvas dimensions in millimeters, inches or Points and Pixels - Great for pixel art or tens of millions of pixels - if device allows - Papers and Canvases from old cardboard, raw canvas, graph, squared and isometric paper COLOR - Display P3 WideColor on supported devices - Auto Color Sample, allows you to easily turn photos into paintings - Color picker - Toolbar placable HSB and RGB sliders ADJUSTMENTS - Localized adjustments, allow you to tweak all or just part of your image via quick masking - Change Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Recolor, Invert, Contrast and Blur WORKFLOW - Auto backup, saves snapshots - iOS Pasteboard or Drag and Drop to or from other apps - Import photos and images and high resolution Art Set is a wonderful creative addition to any iPad!

About

Handfont

Features
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Write 24 letters once. Get a font that writes all 11,172 Korean syllables in your own hand. PAPER CAPTURE Print the jamo sheet from the app, write each letter with a pen, and take one photo. Four corner markers straighten the page, the 24 boxes are cut apart, and your handwriting becomes a font. Nothing leaves your phone - extraction, assembly and font generation all run on the device. OR WRITE ON SCREEN No printer nearby? Draw each letter with a finger or a stylus. Same result. 11,172 SYLLABLES FROM 24 LETTERS Hangul is assembled, not drawn one character at a time. Handfont places your initial, medial and final letters at the right coordinates, so every Korean syllable comes out in your handwriting - along with Latin letters, digits and punctuation. TUNE IT Adjust stroke weight, slant, letter spacing and baseline until it looks like you. EXPORT Save a real .ttf file and use it anywhere fonts are accepted. WRITE AND KEEP Write a letter or a card in your font and save it. Come back later and edit it - weight and slant are kept per writing, so a note and a title can look different. FREE AND PRO The first font is free. Pro unlocks unlimited fonts and permanent font tuning, and removes ads - a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://app.mint-soft.com/apps/handfont/terms Privacy Policy: https://app.mint-soft.com/apps/handfont/privacy

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Art Set 4 at none against Handfont's shown. Art Set 4 also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). Handfont's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Art Set 4 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Handfont sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Art Set 4 versus Handfont: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArt Set 4Handfont
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (29K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings29K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.4 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size158 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLOFOPImint-soft

Bugs and requests

Art Set 4

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when opening color palette or blending
  • Unexpected loss of work and canvas resets
  • Inability to resize canvas or change aspect ratio
  • Brush size and settings not preserved when switching tools

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add more free brushes and tools
  • Improve layer management and export options
  • Allow more brush size and customization options in free version
  • Provide better documentation and tutorials
  • Add undo/redo gesture support
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  • Improve color management and palette tools

Handfont

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Art Set 4

One-time1
  • Unlock All$12.99
1 purchases

Handfont

One-time1
  • Handfont Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Art Set 4 free?
Art Set 4 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Handfont free?
Handfont is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Art Set 4 or Handfont have ads?
Handfont shows ads; Art Set 4 does not.

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