Letterforms vs TappyType
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Letterforms
Design unique variable fonts from sketches to screen with professional typography tools. This app offers a touch-first vector drawing experience and seamless syncing across Apple devices.
- Variable font creation
- Touch-first vector drawing
- Professional typography tools
- Scan sketches to vector
- Cross-device sync
- Clean font preview
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Make Your Own Creative Variable Fonts. From Sketch to Screen. Letterforms is a professional font design app for iOS and Mac. Craft unique variable fonts from the ground up with a precise and intuitive set of tools. Key Features: True Font Creation: Design, interpolate, and export professional-quality variable fonts as TTF/OTF files. Touch-First Design: A vector drawing tool built for your fingers. Edit glyphs with precision on any device. Professional Typography Tools: Fine-tune kerning, font metrics, guides, composite glyphs, and anchors. Scan to Vector: Turn your paper sketches into editable, refined vector paths in seconds. Seamless Workflow: Sync projects across your Apple devices. Copy and paste paths between Letterforms and your favorite design apps.* Clean Preview: Instantly visualize your font with a beautiful, uncluttered preview pane. Unlock the full creative potential of Letterforms with a subscription. Manage your subscription easily through your App Store account settings. For more details on subscription terms, privacy, and data handling, please visit our full policy page. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
TappyType
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Your handwriting becomes a real font. TappyType turns your handwriting into a Korean font, right on your iPad or iPhone — Apple Pencil or your finger. Watch a live preview fill up with your writing as you go, then export a real font file (.ttf). How it works 1. Write characters along the guides — baselines and tracing hints help you. 2. The live preview instantly renders sentences in your handwriting. 3. Finish the basic set, then one tap of AI Generate fills in 2,000+ remaining Hangul characters in your style. 4. Export as .ttf and use it anywhere fonts work: GoodNotes, Procreate, Keynote, Word. AI Generate Korean has 11,172 syllables, which made handwriting fonts notoriously hard to make. TappyType's AI learns your style from the characters you write and draws the rest to match. A few characters are enough for a complete font. Your data stays yours Writing, preview, and font building all happen on your iPad. Only when you use AI Generate, handwriting images are sent to our server — processed in real time and immediately discarded, never stored. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Free and paid - Writing, AI Generate, live preview, and postcards are free, with no limits. - Exporting your font as a .ttf file or installing it onto your device is a one-time purchase — yours for life, no subscription. Made for - Decorating your journal and GoodNotes pages with your own handwriting - Creating cards, video captions, and vlog titles with a handwritten feel - Preserving a parent's or friend's handwriting as a font — a gift that lasts - Designers who need a personal Korean typeface Write a few characters today. Once your handwriting becomes a font, writing never feels the same.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TappyType at none against Letterforms's 4. TappyType also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Letterforms's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price and ads 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. Letterforms sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. TappyType asks for nothing beyond the download.
Letterforms ships an update weekly, TappyType every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Letterforms | TappyType |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 久乔 魏 | Jiin Seok |
In-app purchases
Letterforms
- Weekly Subscription7 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$39.991 Year
- Legacy purchase$49.99
TappyType
No in-app purchases









