Comparison

Calligraphy Calm vs Calligraphy Practice · Cursive

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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 :)

About

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive

Master beautiful handwriting with this app. Explore and trace hundreds of calligraphy fonts, lettering styles, and alphabets. Create custom word art, quotes, and designs with AR tracing and a font editor.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of calligraphy fonts and styles
  • Full alphabet and word tracing
  • AR tracing mode for on-paper practice
  • Customizable word art and quotes
  • Font editor and design tools
  • Animated letter tracing tutorials
Features
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Looking to improve your calligraphy, hand lettering, or cursive writing? This powerful calligraphy practice & writing app lets you explore, customize, and trace fonts and alphabets in a wide range of cursive writing styles — perfect for beginners, hobby artists, and anyone wanting to master beautiful handwriting. Choose from hundreds of calligraphy fonts, lettering styles, and typography templates. Trace individual letters, full alphabets, or complete words in the app or directly on paper using the AR tracing mode. Just place your device above your page and follow the lines to practice calligraphy strokes, shapes, and letterforms with ease. You can also create stunning word art, quotes, tattoo ideas, and decorative typography. Enter your own text, adjust the style in the font editor, and design unique lettering compositions. This calligraphy practice app & text art designer supports the following features: - A large library of writing styles, lettering fonts, and cursive handwriting examples - Full alphabet tracing for handwriting practice (A–Z) - Animated letter tracing tutorials to learn strokes step by step - AR tracing mode to practice cursive writing directly on paper - Add your own text for custom lettering, quotes, names, or tattoo ideas - Hundreds of handwriting styles: brush lettering, cursive, ornamental, modern writing & more - Word art creation with adjustable size, spacing, rotation, and layout - Customize colors, backgrounds, or use your own images - Save your favorite designs and handwriting practice sheets - Add emojis, import photos, or design typography posters - Works as both a cursive writing practice app and a lettering font design app The Pro-version of this text art maker app also offers: - Unlock all calligraphy fonts and styles - Add unlimited custom words and text - Remove ads Calligraphy is an ancient penmanship art form focused on beautiful handwriting and word art. Today, this decorative type of hand-writing is still popular. It is used to decorate texts, logo’s, menus, postcards, wedding stationery and documents by forming, arranging and decorating the shapes and symbols of words. Cursive handwriting is a great way to relax and let your typography creativity flow. Explore both traditional and modern calligraphy examples in this text designer app. Traditional calligraphy involves the practice of certain script styles and aims for a uniform shape of letters with fixed proportions. Modern lettering, sometimes called ‘faux calligraphy’, is a big trend over the last few years. In modern caligraphy, often different styles are combined in one composition. Whether you're new to calligraphy or a master calligrapher, learn to write and boost your typography creativity with this caligraphy text designer app, endless word art templates, tattoo designs, font editor and quotes creator. Start creating! If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please contact support @ wienelware.nl

Screenshots

Calligraphy Calm4 screens
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Calligraphy Practice · Cursive at 4.5 against Calligraphy Calm's 3.4. Calligraphy Practice · Cursive also leads on ratings volume (706 vs 50). Calligraphy Calm's advantage is review sentiment (41% vs 32%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Calligraphy Calm sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Calligraphy Practice · Cursive sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calligraphy Practice · Cursive has 706 ratings behind it against 50, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 41% of Calligraphy Calm's written reviews are positive against 32% of Calligraphy Practice · Cursive's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calligraphy Calm ships an update every 3 weeks, Calligraphy Practice · Cursive monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Calligraphy Calm versus Calligraphy Practice · Cursive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalligraphy CalmCalligraphy Practice · Cursive
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (50 ratings)4.5 (706 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.5% of reviews — better31.8% of reviews
Number of ratings50706 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB112 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrosby Designs Ltd.Lidwien Veugen

Customer experience

Calligraphy Calm

All ratings48 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral12.5%
Negative29.2%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive40.5%
Neutral29.7%
Negative29.7%

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive

All ratings692 ratings
Positive87.4%
Neutral3.8%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive31.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative59.1%

Bugs and requests

Calligraphy Calm

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App won't open
  • App stuck on loading screen
  • App crashes on opening
  • App won't load on iPad mini
  • Blinking is annoying

Requested features

5 requests
  • Make the app free
  • Be honest about in-app purchases
  • Show reviews before download
  • Directions are missing
  • App should be free to learn

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Calligraphy Calm

One-time1
  • Calligraphy Calm PRO$2.99
7 purchases

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive

Subscriptions4
  • Calligraphy design ideas PRO2 variants$3.991 Month
  • Calligraphy font practice PRO2 variants$4.997 Days
  • Calligraphy font practice PRO$14.991 Year
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  • Calligraphy design ideas PRO2 variants$24.991 Year
One-time3
  • Calligraphy writing practice PRO$19.99
  • Calligraphy font practice PRO$39.99
  • Calligraphy typography art PRO$39.99

Questions

Is Calligraphy Calm free?
Calligraphy Calm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Calligraphy Practice · Cursive free?
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Calligraphy Calm or Calligraphy Practice · Cursive?
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive is rated higher. Calligraphy Calm averages 3.4 out of 5 from 50 ratings, while Calligraphy Practice · Cursive averages 4.5 from 706 ratings.
Do Calligraphy Calm or Calligraphy Practice · Cursive have ads?
Both Calligraphy Calm and Calligraphy Practice · Cursive show ads.
Which is updated more often, Calligraphy Calm or Calligraphy Practice · Cursive?
Calligraphy Calm ships an update every 3 weeks, and Calligraphy Practice · Cursive monthly. Most recently, Calligraphy Calm was updated on November 6, 2026 and Calligraphy Practice · Cursive on November 7, 2026.

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