Comparison

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive vs WordCloudStudio

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

WordCloudStudio

Easily create stunning word clouds with AI-powered templates, over 1,700 fonts, and a vast library of over 10,000 designs. Export as images or record the creation process as video or GIF. Perfect for marketing, education, and creative projects.

Highlights
  • AI-customised templates
  • Over 1,700 fonts
  • 10,000+ templates
  • Video and GIF recording
  • Transparent background support
  • Rapid text extraction
  • Data import/export
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WordCloudStudio is the ultimate word cloud and word art maker — AI-powered with 10,000+ masks & 1,942 fonts. Create tag clouds, typography posters, GIFs, and video exports. Why choose WordCloudStudio? • Color Palette: 8 presets + unlimited custom colors for unique word cloud designs • Background Image: Custom backgrounds with adjustable opacity, blur & fit modes • Gallery: Save, browse, reuse & share your word cloud creations anytime • AI-customised templates: meet your needs with AI Prompt • Custom templates: Personalise your templates for unique results • Massive fonts: 1,942 fonts to beautify your word cloud style • Vast Template Library: 10,000+ templates, still growing with user demand • Video Recording: Capture the rendering process in stunning HD video • GIF Animation: Convert word clouds into eye-catching animated GIFs • Stop Words Processing: Auto-filter common stop words for precise data • Transparent background: Adjust background color transparency • Rapid Text Extraction: Extract and visualize data from text sources • Precise Keyword Adjustment: Fine-tune keywords and word frequencies • Data import/export: Manage large amounts of data seamlessly • Image Export & Copy: Export word clouds as images or copy to clipboard • Cross-Platform: Enjoy flexibility across iOS, macOS, iPad & Vision Pro Where to use WordCloudStudio? • Marketing: Eye-catching word clouds for ads, social media, and promotions • Education: Enhance presentations, study materials, and classroom posters • Business: Visualize data in reports, proposals, and presentations • Social Media: Unique, shareable word clouds for profiles and stories • Data Analysis: Present textual data in visual format for researchers • Creative Projects: Integrate word clouds into graphic design and artwork • Events: Beautiful word cloud invitations for parties and gatherings • Customer Feedback: Display reviews in a visually engaging way • Book Summaries: Summarize books and movies highlighting key themes • Team Building: Visually represent group ideas and discussions • Presentations: Enhance speeches with word clouds emphasizing key points • Merchandise: Create designs for T-shirts, hoodies, and more • Gift Customization: Personalize mugs, posters, and cards with word clouds Download now and subscribe to unlock full access! Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://app.emperinter.info/privacy.html

Screenshots

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive4 screens
WordCloudStudio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: WordCloudStudio at 5.0 against Calligraphy Practice · Cursive's 4.5. WordCloudStudio also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (57% vs 32%). Calligraphy Practice · Cursive's advantage is ratings volume (666 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 WordCloudStudio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WordCloudStudio 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of Calligraphy Practice · Cursive's written reviews are positive against 57% of WordCloudStudio's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive ships an update monthly, WordCloudStudio every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive versus WordCloudStudio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalligraphy Practice · CursiveWordCloudStudio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (666 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews31.8% of reviews57.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings666 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLidwien Veugen辉章 何

Customer experience

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive

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

WordCloudStudio

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative42.9%

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

WordCloudStudio

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
3 purchases

WordCloudStudio

Subscriptions3
  • Creator Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Creator Quarterly$6.993 Months
  • Creator Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Calligraphy Practice · Cursive free?
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WordCloudStudio free?
WordCloudStudio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Calligraphy Practice · Cursive or WordCloudStudio?
WordCloudStudio is rated higher. Calligraphy Practice · Cursive averages 4.5 out of 5 from 666 ratings, while WordCloudStudio averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Calligraphy Practice · Cursive or WordCloudStudio have ads?
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive shows ads; WordCloudStudio does not.
Which is updated more often, Calligraphy Practice · Cursive or WordCloudStudio?
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive ships an update monthly, and WordCloudStudio every 3 weeks. Most recently, Calligraphy Practice · Cursive was updated on October 17, 2026 and WordCloudStudio on October 9, 2026.

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