Calligraphy Calm vs Calligraphy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calligraphy Calm
Create realistic ink paintings and calligraphy with a fluid, tapered line effect. Explore minimalist art inspired by East Asian traditions, adding ornamental borders and red stamps. Enjoy a calming creative experience on your iPhone and iPad.
- Realistic fluid ink painting effect
- Dynamic tapered line brushes
- Merge ink colors with paper texture
- Ornamental borders
- Chinese chop-style red stamps
- Save artwork to device gallery
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Calligraphy Calm - Ink Painter is a minimalist art app in the tradition of Chinese and Japanese painting and calligraphy. Create a realistic, fluid ink painting effect on your iPhone and iPad with the swipe of your finger! Practice the art of simplicity and capture the essence of your subject. OUR BRUSHES Our brushes create a dynamic 'tapered' line effect, which produces a beautifully organic feel for handwritten typography and drawing. Try overlaying brush strokes and you will find the ink colors merge with the paper texture. Move your finger QUICKLY to increase the thickness of the line and SLOWLY to get a really thin line. This is what makes our brushes unique. Bigger brushes produce a rougher line texture. SPECIAL FEATURES To keep the app in line with Asian traditional painting you can add: • Ornamental borders to frame your art or calligraphy • Red stamps in the style of Chinese chops (choose from 22 designs) HOW TO ENJOY CALLIGRAPHY CALM 1) Use the painting tools for calligraphy writing or art. 2) Get into the flow of minimalist painting and feel calm. 3) Save your progress to the gallery * 4) Download your best designs to your device Photos for safe keeping. *Please note - Your paintings are saved to your device. Deleting the app will delete your saved artwork. FREE version: • 3 brushes • 3 ink colors + black • 4 paper textures • Eraser tool • Save 6 paintings to your Gallery screen • Download images to your Camera Roll To unlock all ink colors, all papers and tools please upgrade to the PRO version. PRO upgrade: • Save unlimited paintings to your device • 34 inks colors (with gradient depth) • 2 pens + 4 brushes • All paper textures • Eraser tool (use it in combination with the brushes) • Remove the watermark logo on image downloads • Remove Ads Paint your way to calm :)
Calligraphy
Learn the art of beautiful handwriting with this comprehensive course. It offers theoretical and practical lessons to develop your penmanship skills and master letter shapes. Practice on a digital pad or print exercises for paper practice.
- Theoretical and practical lessons
- Hand muscle development
- Letter shape mastery
- Digital training pad
- Printable exercises
- Guideline sheet customization
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Dive into the enchanting universe of calligraphy, a place where every mark bears witness to the sophistication of script. More than just penmanship, calligraphy is a visual concert of alphabets, assembled with delicacy and symmetry, capturing the individuality of each creator. This discipline elevates writing beyond mundane communication, turning it into a unique artistic statement. Becoming proficient in calligraphy is a path filled with ongoing education and practice. The Cursive Writing App serves as a manual for effective cursive handwriting, offering a series of successive theoretical and hands-on lessons. Upon completing this course, you will acquire the necessary writing abilities, develop mastery over the hand's writing muscles, and learn how to practically apply these skills to the shapes of letters. The free version without a subscription includes lessons on basic principles in writing, the first two lessons of more advanced stages, and limited writing on the training pad. With the subscription, you'll get access to all theoretical and practical lessons of the course plus an ability to write on the training pad. You can also print all exercises in the "Practice" section, as well as tune and print a guidelines sheet for practicing on paper. *Calligraphy Course Subscription* • Calligraphy Course requires a subscription to access all books' content. • Once your purchase is confirmed, you will be charged through your iTunes account. • The subscription will automatically renew. • You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal at any time in your App Store account, but at least 24 hrs before the end of the current period. • If you chose an offered trial period and would like not to proceed with subscribing, you have to cancel your subscription at least 24 hrs before the end of the Trial, otherwise, you will be charged for the first billing period. Terms of use: https://calligraphy.app/penman-book/termsofuse/ Privacy policy: https://calligraphy.app/penman-book/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Calligraphy Calm at 3.4 against Calligraphy's 2.9. Calligraphy Calm also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Calligraphy's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Calligraphy Calm sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Calligraphy sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Calligraphy Calm holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 50 and 25 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Calligraphy Calm's written reviews are positive against 33% of Calligraphy's.
Calligraphy Calm ships an update every 3 weeks, Calligraphy every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calligraphy Calm | Calligraphy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (50 ratings) — better | 2.9 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.5% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frosby Designs Ltd. | Vladislava Rudetskaia |
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Calligraphy Calm
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In-app purchases
Calligraphy Calm
- Calligraphy Calm PRO$2.99
Calligraphy
- Full Access Weekly Sale$0.997 Days
- Full Access Weekly$1.997 Days
- Full Access$3.991 Month
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- Full Access Monthly Family$7.991 Month
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