Comparison

Mental Canvas Draw vs Handfont

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

Head to head
About

Mental Canvas Draw

Explore ideas and communicate concepts in a new dimension with this spatial drawing application. Create on infinite canvases, navigate your creations from any perspective, and easily edit and share your work. It's ideal for designers, artists, and storytellers.

Highlights
  • Infinite spatial canvases
  • Freely navigate perspectives
  • Unlimited canvases and layers
  • Import images and drawings
  • Create animated flythroughs
  • Projection tools for stroke reinterpretation
  • Interactive web experience sharing
Features
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Pick up where pen and paper leave off with Mental Canvas Draw. Creatives are using Mental Canvas Draw every day to explore ideas, communicate concepts, design products and tell stories. Infinite space for your creative freedom: • Draw on infinite canvases arranged in space • Freely navigate the spatial drawing to view perspectives you never could on paper • Unlimited canvases, layers and bookmark views Draw with the ease of pen and paper: • Get started with templates or create scenes from scratch • Choose from several brushes with adjustable sizes and a fill tool • Select color swatches or custom colors • Use layers to organize the drawings, group strokes and adjust opacity Easy editing & image import: • Import JPEGs and PNGs to seamlessly collage images and drawings together or create entirely image-based scenes • Select, duplicate, edit and transform drawings and images • Import and replace layers from your favorite drawing apps with ease Quickly create animated flythroughs: • Save bookmark views throughout the spatial drawing to create a flythrough • Customize the flythrough animation by adjusting the timing, transitions and visibility of canvases Transform and develop spatial drawings with projection: • Seamlessly place new canvases in the scene • Reinterpret existing strokes using novel projection tools • Draw first, arrange strokes on canvases later Share your creations: • Turn your drawing into an interactive web experience, shareable across phones, desktops, and VR • Export video of animated flythrough with your choice of aspect ratio and resolution • Save high resolution images of bookmarks Optimized for Apple Pencil and the Apple iPad Pro. Mental Canvas Draw supports iPad Pro (all except 1st gen), iPad (7th gen or later), iPad Air (3rd gen or later), iPad Mini (5th gen). Please note older iPads aren’t supported. Questions: https://www.mentalcanvas.com/faq/ Privacy Policy & Terms of Service: https://www.mentalcanvas.com/company/legal/ Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @mental_canvas

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

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Mental Canvas Draw at none against Handfont's shown. Handfont's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Mental Canvas Draw sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Handfont sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Mental Canvas Draw versus Handfont: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMental Canvas DrawHandfont
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (673 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews42.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings673 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMental Canvasmint-soft

Bugs and requests

Mental Canvas Draw

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when trying to save large files
  • Drawing tools stop working randomly
  • Imported images don't maintain transparency
  • Depth/3D tools suddenly stop functioning

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add finger/stylus drawing support
  • Improve layer and canvas management
  • Implement basic drawing tools like lines, shapes
  • Allow exporting layers separately
  • Provide more brushes and blending options
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  • Add preset camera angles and perspective tools

Handfont

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Mental Canvas Draw

Subscriptions4
  • Mental Canvas Pro (Monthly)$9.991 Month
  • Mental Canvas Premium (Month)$59.991 Month
  • Mental Canvas Pro (Yearly)$89.991 Year
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  • Mental Canvas Premium (Annual)$569.991 Year
One-time1
  • Mental Canvas Creator$49.99
1 purchases

Handfont

One-time1
  • Handfont Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Mental Canvas Draw free?
Mental Canvas Draw is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Handfont free?
Handfont is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mental Canvas Draw or Handfont have ads?
Handfont shows ads; Mental Canvas Draw does not.

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