Curved Text vs Fx Stencil
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Curved Text
Easily add beautifully curved text to your photos. Choose from various shapes, styles, and fonts, or create custom curves with your finger. Enhance your images with effects, frames, and stickers using the integrated photo editor.
- Beautiful curve shapes
- Custom curve drawing
- Unlimited text additions
- Artistic and custom fonts
- Text styling and colors
- Photo editing tools
- Background templates
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[Curved Text] helps you to add beautiful curved texts on your photo. With tons of curve shapes, text styles, artistic fonts and background templates, you can add unique texts in ways you've never imagined. You can also apply effects, frames and stickers to your photo with powerful photo editor. [Features] ● Beautiful curve shapes - Free draw - Wave - Arc - Bell - Horizontal/Vertical Line - Semi Circle - Circle - Rectangle ● Create custom curve with your finger touch ● Unlimited number of texts - not just one text! ● Tons of artistic fonts (including all iOS fonts) ● Custom Font - Add any font you want ● Beautiful text styles and colors including gradient color ● Move, resize and rotate each text ● Tons of background templates - optimized for Instagram ● Powerful photo editor - effects, frames and stickers ● Save as full resolution ● Export texts as watermark ● Upload to SNS ** Custom Font - Add any font you want 1. Using iTunes - Open iTunes - Connect your device to your PC - Go to [Devices/Your Device/Apps/File Sharing/CurvedText] - Copy your fonts to app 2. Using Email - Create email and attach your fonts in your PC - Send it to yourself - Open it in your iPhone email app - Select [Curved Text] in the list [User Reviews] - "I've been waiting for an app like this to come along and Curved Text is very well done and simple to use" - "Great set of fonts and works perfect" - "Add curved writing to your messages and photos!" - "So amazing words can't describe it!!! The point is... IT'S AMAZING!!!"
Fx Stencil
Transform your photos into unique stencil art. Easily edit, customize colors, and apply gradients to create personalized designs for printing on various materials or sharing with loved ones.
- Create stencils from photos
- Edit and customize stencils
- Gradient stencil effects
- Save and share stencils
- Simple drawing tools
- Invert stencil option
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Fx Stencil lets you make a stencil from photo you takes or from your photo album.Very simple and quick. You can edit, share on facebook, save to your album or mail it to your friends and family. With a stencil you can use to print on the wall, clothes, fabric or make amazing gifts that imbued with your own personality. New features with version 3.3.0 - Support Dark mode - New Design UI for app - New core processing - More color for stencil - New Gradient stencil - Save your stencil - Share stencil to social networks and some action for stencil - Crop Image - Custom color - More tool - A simple drawing tools to help you edit image stencil. - Invert Stencil Wish you have fun with Fx Stencil. Sincerely!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Fx Stencil at Free against Curved Text's $2.99. Fx Stencil also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.8) and ratings volume (1K vs 72). Curved Text's advantage is review sentiment (62% vs 43%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On update cadence, ads, 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
Fx Stencil is free to download; Curved Text costs $2.99 up front. Curved Text sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Fx Stencil sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fx Stencil holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fx Stencil has 1K ratings behind it against 72, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of Curved Text's written reviews are positive against 43% of Fx Stencil's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Curved Text ships an update every 6 weeks, Fx Stencil every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Curved Text | Fx Stencil |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.8 (72 ratings) | 4.5 (1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.2% of reviews — better | 43.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 72 | 1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dongwook Cho | Tien Le |
Customer experience
Curved Text
Fx Stencil
User reviews
Curved Text
From 72 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Unique curved text feature unavailable in other apps
- 🎨 Wide variety of fonts and color options
- 👍 User-friendly interface and intuitive design
- 🖼️ Built-in photo editing and cropping tools
- ✨ Multiple text effects including shadows and gradients
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes when saving photos
- 📏 Inconsistent and uneven letter spacing
- ❌ Cannot save with transparent backgrounds
- 🔤 Low resolution/blurry text output
- ⚙️ Limited customization of preset curves
Fx Stencil
From 1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Amazing app
- 👍 Love app
- 👍 Stencil app
- 👍 Simple and elegant
- 👍 Great for black and white contrast
Room to improve
- 🐛 Clumsy
- 🐛 Crashes
- 🐛 Buggy
- 🐛 Limited
- 🐛 Doesn't access albums
Bugs and requests
Curved Text
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes when attempting to save photos to camera roll
- Only first letter of text displays after updates
- Text fails to appear on photos during export
- Custom curve feature glitches and malfunctions
- App freezes during photo editing with multiple lines
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- Text editing selection becomes unresponsive after placement
- Interface language switches to Asian characters unexpectedly
- Incompatibility with iOS 10.2 and older devices
- Black bars appear on iPod touch 5 despite bigger screen support
- App crashes when using draw-your-own-curve feature
- Pinch-to-zoom enlarges text but spaces letters excessively
- Preset text styles cannot have border/shadow colors changed independently
Requested features
18 requests- Transparent background export option
- Automatic text centering and balancing
- Eraser tool for artistic effects
- Ability to resize text boxes independently
- Letter spacing/kerning adjustment controls
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- Plain or no background options
- Text rotation and angle adjustment
- 3D text rotation capability
- Save/autosave functionality with checkpoints
- Support for Arabic language
- Support for Chinese fonts and characters
- Paragraph/multi-line text support
- Two-finger pinch-to-resize gesture
- Color picker for more precise color selection
- More diverse preset shapes and templates
- Japanese font expansion
- Photo layering above backgrounds
- Ability to curve special/custom fonts
Fx Stencil
Reported bugs
4 issues- Only lets you do one stencil
- App closes when selecting photo
- Zooms in to one corner
- Doesn't display entire picture
Requested features
4 requests- Two-tone image options
- Ability to add more photos
- Bring back old invert option
- Allow access to photo albums
In-app purchases
Curved Text
- [Use All Fonts]$0.99
- [Use All Templates]$0.99
Fx Stencil
- Remove Watermark$0.99
- Add Picker Color$0.99
- Gradient Stencil$0.99
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- Remove Advertisement$2.99
