Comparison

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive vs DaFonts

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

DaFonts

Transform your device's appearance with a vast library of fonts. Easily browse, download, and install new typography to personalize your interface, messages, and social media posts. Express your creativity with endless font options.

Highlights
  • Extensive font library
  • Simple font installation
  • User-friendly interface
  • Text customization
  • Seamless app compatibility
  • Regular library updates
Features
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Find fonts for your next design with DaFonts. Browse the font catalog, preview your own text, save favorites, and download font files for use in compatible apps. EXPLORE AND PREVIEW Browse font categories and search for a style you like. Try your own text and adjust its size and color before downloading. KEEP YOUR FONTS ORGANIZED Save favorites for later and manage downloaded TTF and OTF files. Share font files or follow the in-app guide to install supported fonts on your iPhone or iPad. USE FONTS IN COMPATIBLE APPS Installed fonts work in apps that support custom fonts. DaFonts does not replace the iOS system font or change fonts in every app. Compatibility depends on the app where you use the font. CHOOSE YOUR ACCESS DaFonts includes advertising and a daily download allowance. Optional weekly and yearly auto-renewable subscriptions remove ads and unlock unlimited downloads. The price and subscription terms appear before you purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation, or after an eligible free trial. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in Apple Account settings. Trial eligibility is determined by the App Store. RESPECT FONT LICENSES Font licenses vary. Check each font's license and contact its creator when permission is required, especially for commercial use. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/fonts-privacy-policy9/home Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive4 screens
DaFonts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Calligraphy Practice · Cursive at 4.5 against DaFonts's 1.0. Calligraphy Practice · Cursive also leads on ratings volume (687 vs 1) and review sentiment (32% vs 14%). DaFonts's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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 DaFonts sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calligraphy Practice · Cursive has 687 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 14% of DaFonts's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive ships an update monthly, DaFonts every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive versus DaFonts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalligraphy Practice · CursiveDaFonts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (687 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews31.8% of reviews — better13.8% of reviews
Number of ratings687 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLidwien VeugenGorantala Niharika

Customer experience

Calligraphy Practice · Cursive

All ratings684 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral3.8%
Negative8.9%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive31.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative59.1%

DaFonts

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive13.8%
Neutral10.3%
Negative75.9%

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

DaFonts

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
2 purchases

DaFonts

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Plan$4.997 Days
  • Yearly Plan14 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Calligraphy Practice · Cursive free?
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DaFonts free?
DaFonts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Calligraphy Practice · Cursive or DaFonts?
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive is rated higher. Calligraphy Practice · Cursive averages 4.5 out of 5 from 687 ratings, while DaFonts averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Calligraphy Practice · Cursive or DaFonts have ads?
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive shows ads; DaFonts does not.
Which is updated more often, Calligraphy Practice · Cursive or DaFonts?
Calligraphy Practice · Cursive ships an update monthly, and DaFonts every 3 weeks. Most recently, Calligraphy Practice · Cursive was updated on October 27, 2026 and DaFonts on October 25, 2026.

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