活字帖 | Live Calligraphy vs 不厌书法
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
活字帖 | Live Calligraphy
Practice Chinese brush calligraphy on your iPad or iPhone. This app uses original strokes from master calligraphers to help you feel like a true master. It focuses on character structure and offers various classic scrolls for learning.
- Practice Chinese brush calligraphy
- Uses original master strokes
- Focuses on character structure
- Offers 8 classic handscrolls
- Learn from ancient calligraphers
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***Featured*** as "Chinese Culture" in more than 120 countries during Chinese Spring Festival, 2015. ***Over 5,000*** 5-star ratings in App Store China. Learn and practice Chinese brush calligraphy with your finger in iPad and iPhone. Live Calligraphy uses the original strokes extracted from the master piece of ancient calligrapher in your practice, so that you can feel yourself like a real master of Chinese calligraphy, and fully enjoy the artistic charm of the art of calligraphy. LanTing calligraphy scroll is generally considered as the best running script in ancient China, and Live Calligraphy provides over 100 characters of LanTing in current release, wish you like them. Enjoy Chinese calligraphy~ Now, the app contains 8 handscrolls: - LanTing (兰亭集序--王羲之) - Basic Strokes (基本笔画--楷书四大家) - Timely Clearing After Snowfall (快雪时晴帖--王羲之) - Namo Amitābha by HongYi (南无阿弥陀佛--弘一法师) - Poem of Fragrance (秾芳诗帖--宋徽宗) - Confucius Passed Away (仲尼梦奠帖--欧阳询) - Ode to Qin (琴赋--文征明) - Heart Sutra (心经--赵孟頫) *Keyword*: Chinese calligraphy, Chinese culture/art, practice Chinese characters --------------------------------- 你是否曾想像自己如书法大师一样挥毫呢?来试试吧,用你的手指在iPad和iPhone上练习毛笔书法。 “活字帖”利用中国古代名家书法作品中的原笔迹,在你描摹或者临帖时绘制出来,使得你的书法效果能媲美真迹,让你体验如书法家一样的练字感受,更真切的感受书法的魅力。 本作与现有大多数作品的最大区别在于,大多数现有的作品只是根据手指运行轨迹,用计算机计算模拟出类似于毛笔笔迹的效果。但是,因为触摸屏的限制,计算机再如何聪明,又如何能知道用户运笔时的轻重缓急,浓淡干湿呢?故本作规避了用笔技巧,着重于练习每个字的字体结构。因此,本作并不能代替笔墨纸砚的常规练字方法,但是却可以从一定程度上提高用户的书法水平。 《兰亭集序》被誉为中国古代书法的第一行书,本版本免费提供前100个字,后续字体需要IAP解锁或者由完整版获得。 本App现有8个字帖: - 兰亭集序(王羲之) - 基本笔画(楷书四大家) - 快雪时晴帖(王羲之) - 南无阿弥陀佛(弘一法师) - 秾芳诗帖(宋徽宗) - 仲尼梦奠帖(欧阳询) - 琴赋(文徵明) - 般若波罗蜜多心经 (赵孟頫) 希望大家喜欢。
不厌书法
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不厌书法的目标是为书法学习者提供一个专业、深度信息化的手边学习工具。APP提供多种书法工具、并提供数千种碑帖进入深度学习:单字大图归类查找展示、手写练习、临摹对比、上下左右对比、多种(反色、黑白、空心字、印翻转)图片变化处理。我们还在不断制作新的碑帖并开发新的功能,为彻底解放书法爱好者的书桌空间提供力所能及的帮助。 主要功能有: 1,首页展示经典国画、经典书论、热门工具、最新学习碑帖入口; 2,字典工具栏目提供众多字典与工具,供大家学习书法时检索资料、模拟章法、基础资料准备等等; 3,书家碑帖栏目对于录入在线碑帖做分类查找,点击碑帖进行翻一翻对碑帖内容简单了解、百科了解碑帖背景、深度学习进入单字大图等功能的深入学习等; 4,定制设置满足大家一些个性化的界面展示设置需求; 5,在“我”栏目提供一个账号登录入口(支持苹果、微信、微博和手机四种模式),登录后可做一些个性话的数据收藏以及积分累积和使用功能; 6,深度学习碑帖内查找输入字(一次20字以内)检索; 7,深度学习提供单字的结构分类检索; 8,单字大图显示及单字汉语字典解释一键进入书法字典查同类字; 9,单字大图也提供手写功能,可Undo,擦掉重来(垃圾桶图标,或者摇一摇),修改线宽,修改线条颜色,存储手写图片; 10,在单字大图界面下,通过左右滑动手势,可以前后切换查询结果; 11,放大显示提供米字格,九宫格等11种选择,并提供个性化定制网格功能(在工具页); 12,整页显示功能,可左右滑动翻页、同页字等等; 13,“拼一拼(集字)”功能提供三个入口:本地相册图、碑帖内、在线字库自由集字;提供5种经典书法章法选择,并可以对上下款、印章做排版; 14,诸多页面提供微信微博分享功能,可以将您的成果分享给微信好友或者微信朋友圈,新浪微博; 15,所有“单字放大页”可存储原碑帖字,也可加存手描临摹笔迹; 16,深度学习单字大图页提供碑帖内相同字、同部首字、汉字拆解等功能; 17,诸多页面提供手写功能,可以屏幕临摹、电子创作等等; 18,工具页提供“书法字典”功能,书法字典可控制朝代、字体范围,查询结果以碑帖为单元,点击进入单字页,罗列该碑帖同一个字的所有写法; 19,书法字典提供“精确匹配”功能,为精确查找繁体、生僻字提供帮助; 20,AI识字,可对书法单字图进行识别,并提供准确输出(繁体、生僻字等),目前已经可以识别近万字,并且算法一直在更新中。 丰富功能很难一次性说完,还请安装后探索体验。 如您有疑问或者建议请垂询:微信buyanchinese
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: 不厌书法 at none against 活字帖 | Live Calligraphy's shown. 不厌书法 also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 6 months). 活字帖 | Live Calligraphy's advantage is ratings volume (45 vs 6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. 活字帖 | Live Calligraphy sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and 不厌书法 sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for 活字帖 | Live Calligraphy against 4.5 for 不厌书法. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 活字帖 | Live Calligraphy has 45 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of 活字帖 | Live Calligraphy's written reviews are positive against 91% of 不厌书法's.
活字帖 | Live Calligraphy ships an update every 6 months, 不厌书法 every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 活字帖 | Live Calligraphy | 不厌书法 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (45 ratings) — better | 4.5 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 哲 盛 | 红金 孙 |
Customer experience
活字帖 | Live Calligraphy
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In-app purchases
活字帖 | Live Calligraphy
- Namo Amitābha$0.99
- Confucius Passed Away$0.99
- Ode to Qin$0.99
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- Heart Sutra$0.99
- Thousand Character Classic$0.99
- Timely Clearing After Snowfall$1.99
- Poem of Fragrance$1.99
- Basic Strokes$1.99
- Lan Ting$2.99
不厌书法
- 100积分$1.99
- 5天体验VIP会员$2.99
- 一个月VIP会员$7.99
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- 半年VIP会员$12.99
- 一年VIP会员$19.99
- 三年VIP会员$39.99
- 永久SVIP会员$49.99
Questions
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