ePen vs Calliplus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ePen
This app offers a digital canvas for calligraphy, ink painting, and various artistic functions. It includes customizable brushes, stroke pressure sensitivity, and options for personal stamps. The app also provides insights into Chinese character evolution and a gallery of calligraphy works.
- Calligraphic writing
- Ink painting functions
- Customizable brush sizes
- Stroke pressure sensitivity
- Personal stamp creation
- Chinese character evolution insights
- Calligraphy gallery
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ePen provides calligraphic writing, ink painting and various painting functions, which contains brush sizes, stroke pressures, borders and background color options. Even more, ePen gives you the option to create personal stamps. In addition, the app accommodates knowledge of Chinese characters that allow you to have the insights into the evolution of Chinese characters, provide handwriting samples and scholar work gallery to learn well-known calligraphy, and also enable you to store all your work.
Calliplus
Explore Chinese calligraphy with a dictionary of styles from renowned masters. Practice your own strokes with interactive guides and scoring, and save your favorite pieces.
- Search calligraphy by character
- View styles from famous calligraphers
- Learn about calligraphers and masterpieces
- Bookmark favorite copybooks
- Interactive writing practice
- Handwriting scoring
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Chinese Calligraphy Dictionary. Search calligraphy written by famous calligraphers. == Look up == 1. Look up single character: list how the Chinese character is written in different styles by different calligraphy masters. 2. Look up multiple characters: you can swipe left/right to see different character lists. 3. Show information about the calligrapher and it's written in which masterpiece. 4. You can bookmark favorite calligraphy copybooks. == Writing Practice == 1. Click on characters to see large one. 2. Grid lines can be displayed in background. 3. Characters can be shown in contour. 4. Use your finger to write on the screen. 5. You can score your handwriting. Calligraphy images are provided by 行政院國家發展委員會，CNS11643中文標準交換碼全字庫網站
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Calliplus at Free against ePen's $2.99. Calliplus also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). ePen's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On ratings volume 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
Calliplus is free to download; ePen costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Calliplus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
ePen ships an update fortnightly, Calliplus weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ePen | Calliplus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 726 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | STUDIO A | MAO YUAN KAO |
Customer experience
ePen
Calliplus
In-app purchases
ePen
No in-app purchases
Calliplus
No in-app purchases
