Comparison

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive vs Scriba

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

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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

Scriba

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Scriba - Praticando Lettering Descubra a arte do lettering de forma simples e intuitiva com o app Scriba. Projetado para oferecer um espaço dedicado ao treino e aprendizado, Scriba proporciona exercícios rápidos e eficazes para praticar diferentes estilos de lettering, permitindo que você controle a ordem e monitore o seu progresso ao longo do caminho. Com Scriba, você pode treinar todas as letras do alfabeto usando uma variedade de fontes. Quer praticar o título da sua matéria favorita ou uma palavra das nossas diversas palavras? Scriba oferece a flexibilidade para você começar como preferir. Funcionalidades: Escreva e treine letras e palavras com uma variedade de fontes e tamanhos. Limpe, reinicie ou ajuste o tamanho do pincel conforme sua necessidade. Acompanhamento de Progresso: Na tela inicial, acompanhe seu progresso com a atualização da porcentagem a cada exercício concluído. Conquistas de Aprendizado: Ganhe conquistas com base no seu progresso, avançando do nível iniciante até se tornar um especialista em lettering.

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Verdict

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The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scriba at none against Calligraphy Practice · Cursive's 10. Calligraphy Practice · Cursive's advantage is device support and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). On price 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. Scriba asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive versus Scriba: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalligraphy Practice · CursiveScriba
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (666 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews31.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings666 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYes—
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — better—
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLidwien VeugenAntonio de Barros Serra

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

Scriba

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
None

Scriba

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Calligraphy Practice · Cursive free?
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scriba free?
Scriba is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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