Comparison

Animacy Font vs Dearscript

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

Head to head
About

Animacy Font

Bring your text to life with animated typography. Choose from various fonts, weights, and dynamic movement templates to create unique animated GIFs. Export with transparent backgrounds for easy sharing on social media.

Highlights
  • Animated text effects
  • Serif and sans-serif font options
  • Multiple font weights
  • Diverse animation templates
  • Customizable text color
  • Export transparent GIFs
Features
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With Animacy Font, you can add animation effects to your text using letters that move like humans. Simply input text and easily create animated GIFs where the letters come to life with fun movements. Main Features:  Choose between serif and sans-serif fonts  Choose from five different font weights  Select from a range of animation templates, including jumps, spins, dances, and more  Change the color of your text using the color palette  Export animated GIFs with transparent backgrounds  Share your creations on various social networks

About

Dearscript

Transform your handwritten notes into a custom, installable font for your devices. Create unique typography using Apple Pencil with various brush options and natural letter variations. Export your font for use across multiple applications and platforms.

Highlights
  • Handwriting to font conversion
  • Apple Pencil support
  • Live font preview
  • System-wide font installation
  • Font file export
  • Multiple brush types
  • Pressure-sensitive strokes
Features
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Your handwriting deserves to be more than ink. Dearscript turns what you write with Apple Pencil into a real, installable font — free, with no accounts and no subscriptions. Write each letter once on a guided, notebook-style canvas, and watch a live preview assemble your handwriting into sentences as you go. When you're happy, install your font on your iPad or iPhone and use it in Pages, Keynote, Word, and any app that supports custom fonts — or export the font file and use it on your Mac or PC. HOW IT WORKS • Draw each letter with Apple Pencil on a compact, guided canvas — faint reference letters and typographic guidelines keep everything lined up • Watch the live preview render your own sample text in your handwriting as you draw • Install your font system-wide, or share the font file anywhere MAKE IT YOURS • Five brushes — pen, monoline, fountain pen, marker, pencil — with adjustable width • Pressure-sensitive strokes carry into the finished font: write light, write bold, it shows • Draw multiple versions of any letter and Dearscript rotates them naturally as you type, so nothing looks stamped or robotic • Letter combinations like "th" and "oo" can be drawn as connected pairs for a flowing, natural look • Tune character and word spacing; add designer and license info to the font file itself A REAL FONT, DONE RIGHT Dearscript builds genuine TrueType fonts with smooth curves — not images of your writing. 105 glyphs: uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation, symbols, and combinations. EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Your fonts sync privately through iCloud across your devices. No account to create, no data collected, nothing to pay.

Screenshots

Animacy Font4 screens
Dearscript4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Animacy Font at 5.0 against Dearscript's 1.0. Animacy Font also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.5). Dearscript's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume 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. Animacy Font sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dearscript asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Animacy Font holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Animacy Font versus Dearscript: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnimacy FontDearscript
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTakuya NakamuraDennis Koch

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Animacy Font

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
None

Dearscript

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Animacy Font free?
Animacy Font is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dearscript free?
Dearscript is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Animacy Font or Dearscript?
Animacy Font is rated higher. Animacy Font averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Dearscript averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Animacy Font or Dearscript have ads?
Animacy Font shows ads; Dearscript does not.

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