Calligraphy Art vs Draw 3D
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calligraphy Art
Learn and practice the art of calligraphy on your iPad. This app replicates real pen strokes with adjustable angle, thickness, and color. Create beautiful letters and designs with guided exercises for Western and Chinese alphabets.
- Realistic pen stroke simulation
- Western and Chinese alphabet exercises
- Adjustable pen angle, thickness, and color
- Zoom and undo/redo functionality
- Save and share creations
- Import photos as textures
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Calligraphy is an ancient art that just anyone can do. Now comes on the iPad. CALLIGRAPHY ART replicates the strokes of the pen in real life: angle, thickness and colors. You can really enjoy calligraphy with this app for its learning ability, then draw beautiful letters on papers with the same easiness. ********** REVIEWS ********** 1/ PRODUCT-REVIEWS: "Every writing page has help and guidelines that coincide with the font. Calligraphy Art uses the same functions that you would find using a pen including different colors, width and the angles. Practice to get beautiful letters in this easy to use application and adapt your own authentic style." "With Calligraphy Art, you will find a beautiful ancient technique to drawing letters that are currently used for all types of great looking documents." --------------------------- 2/ APPADVICE: "Calligraphy Art is a beautiful and functional app that will teach you how to create graceful lettering in traditional calligraphy style or help you perfect your letter art. This app stands out from others because of the way that the virtual pens perfectly mimic their real counterparts." --------------------------- This application is not for language learning. It is divided is 3 parts: - A main page for freehand calligraphy and creation. This is the most complete featured page with ALL TOOLS available. - Western alphabets exercises - Chinese words exercises All writing surfaces are pre-filled with guidelines according to the hand (font) presented. Today calligraphy is used in many documents and papers, giving to them an elegant and unique touch: graphic design, logo design, type design, paintings, scholarship, maps, menus, greeting cards, invitations, legal documents, diplomas, cut stone inscriptions, memorial documents, props and moving images for film and television, business cards, lettering envelopes, place cards, poems and much more. MAIN FEATURES: - Specific long paper size: 1536X458 - 21 Western hands - 3 Chinese writing styles - 16 inkpens, 4 brushes - 24 preselected pen angles - 9 pen sizes - Zoom rate 2000%, undo redo, clear, eraser. - Save to photos gallery with or without background. - Share by email - 12 old style backgrounds - Color palette - Stylish letter textures. Import photo as texture. - 1 flourish tutorial
Draw 3D
Learn to draw a wide variety of objects with step-by-step lessons. Explore over 100 items and enjoy offline play. This app offers essential drawing tools like zoom and a grid display for easy navigation.
- Over 100 drawing lessons
- Step-by-step tutorials
- Offline mode support
- Grid display for object browsing
- Zoom in/out functionality
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* Draw 3D has collected a lot of various lessons. You can find any objects you want in Draw 3D. All is here. * Draw 3D has step by step lesson, it's easier in learning and drawing for anyone. === FEATURES === + Content: over 100 objects. Play in whole day. + Display with GRID style: be able to see lots of objects on one screen. + Downloaded section: support play with offline mode. + Zoom In/Out: essential functionality for drawing. + And more... ----- Let's download and discover... -----
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Calligraphy Art at 89% against Draw 3D's 21%. Calligraphy Art also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.2) and ads (none vs shown). Draw 3D's advantage is price (Free vs $3.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On 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
Draw 3D is free to download; Calligraphy Art costs $3.99 up front. Calligraphy Art sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Draw 3D asks for nothing beyond the download.
Calligraphy Art holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calligraphy Art has 160 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Calligraphy Art's written reviews are positive against 21% of Draw 3D's.
Calligraphy Art ships an update every 3 months, Draw 3D every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calligraphy Art | Draw 3D |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (160 ratings) — better | 3.2 (31 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.4% of reviews — better | 21.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 160 — better | 31 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 271 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon | Binh Le |
Customer experience
Calligraphy Art
Draw 3D
Bugs and requests
Calligraphy Art
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when using undo function
- Difficulty exporting work without artifacts
- Inconsistent behavior when rotating device
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to print or export calligraphy creations
- More calligraphy font styles and scripts
- Option to import images and write on them
- Improved palm rejection and stroke precision
- Larger practice canvas and ability to save work in-app
Draw 3D
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Calligraphy Art
- Tracing letters pack 1$0.99
- Tracing letters pack 2$0.99
Draw 3D
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Is Draw 3D free?
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