Comparison

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive vs Letter Set Typography

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

Head to head
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 even tattoo ideas with AR tracing and advanced design tools.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of calligraphy fonts and styles
  • Full alphabet tracing
  • Animated letter stroke tutorials
  • AR tracing mode for paper practice
  • Custom text and word art creation
  • Font editor and design tools
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

About

Letter Set Typography

This app aims to bring back the artistic imperfections and tactile feel of traditional lettering methods into digital design. It allows users to explore and create designs that celebrate the artist's hand and the unique character of manual typography.

Highlights
  • Embraces artistic imperfection
  • Mimics tactile lettering feel
  • Celebrates artist's hand
  • Digital typography exploration
  • Unique character placement
Features
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A cave painting, hidden for centuries in the Lascaux network. A cuneiform tablet, waiting for millennia beneath the earth. A papyrus scroll, entombed amongst the ash in Pompeii. The work of an artist, the sign of one's hand; the idea made permanent through perseverance, practice and piedmont. I miss imperfection. I miss being able to see the artist’s hand behind their work. I do not accept that the digital tools we use have to hide these things, even in lettering. Let's celebrate the artistic rendition of information, together. Let's remember the struggle of exact character placement, the misadventures of substituting a zero for an O, the beauty of a printed font catalog, and the tactile sensation of using rub-on lettering in an era well before the phrase "Desktop publishing" meant anything other than what one did on a desk.

Screenshots

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive4 screens
Letter Set Typography4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Letter Set Typography at 5.0 against Calligraphy Practice · Cursive's 4.5. Letter Set Typography also leads on ads (none vs shown). Calligraphy Practice · Cursive's advantage is ratings volume (666 vs 5) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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 Practice · Cursive sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Letter Set Typography sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Letter Set Typography holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calligraphy Practice · Cursive has 666 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive ships an update monthly, Letter Set Typography every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive versus Letter Set Typography: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalligraphy Practice · CursiveLetter Set Typography
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (666 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews31.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings666 — better5
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLidwien VeugenErin Sparling

Customer experience

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive

All ratings666 ratings
Positive87.7%
Neutral3.6%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive31.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative59.1%

Letter Set Typography

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and 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

Letter Set Typography

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

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
1 purchases

Letter Set Typography

One-time1
  • Season 1 Features$4.99

Questions

Is Calligraphy Practice · Cursive free?
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Letter Set Typography free?
Letter Set Typography is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Calligraphy Practice · Cursive or Letter Set Typography?
Letter Set Typography is rated higher. Calligraphy Practice · Cursive averages 4.5 out of 5 from 666 ratings, while Letter Set Typography averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Calligraphy Practice · Cursive or Letter Set Typography have ads?
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive shows ads; Letter Set Typography does not.
Which is updated more often, Calligraphy Practice · Cursive or Letter Set Typography?
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive ships an update monthly, and Letter Set Typography every 2 months. Most recently, Calligraphy Practice · Cursive was updated on October 12, 2026 and Letter Set Typography on October 5, 2026.

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