LeFont vs Dearscript
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LeFont
Create custom fonts from your handwriting on your iPhone or iPad. Draw letters, import existing writing, and export as a standard font file. Advanced features for polished font families are available through an optional subscription.
- Draw letters with Apple Pencil or touch
- Import completed writing sheets
- Export fonts as TTF
- Install fonts on iPhone/iPad
- Multiple pen styles
- Advanced Pro features
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LeFont turns your handwriting into a real font you can install and use in apps that support custom fonts. Draw letters directly, import a writing sheet, refine glyphs, and export on your iPhone or iPad. MAKE A FONT THAT LOOKS LIKE YOU • Follow Guided Capture to draw uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation, and language characters. • Create alternate forms for a glyph and preview the result in real words. • Use LeFont calligraphy tools or Apple Pencil tools on the same canvas. • Import a photo, scan, or completed writing sheet, then review each detected glyph. • Undo, erase, adjust, and approve your shapes before export. • Export a regular TrueType font for free and install it through iOS Settings. LANGUAGE AND SCRIPT PACKS English is included for free. Free projects use one writing system at a time. Nine optional one-time language packs expand the characters you can draw and export: • Latin Family Bundle: Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian letter sets, German characters, and extended Latin characters • Arabic • Japanese Hiragana (one Japanese script) • Japanese Katakana (a separate Japanese script) • Greek • Russian Cyrillic • Hebrew • Armenian • Georgian Each purchase unlocks only the listed character set or bundle, not an entire language beyond the characters shown in the app. Active Pro includes every current pack. Lifetime Pro permanently includes the current packs. Packs do not include Pro editing tools. LEFONT PRO Pro adds automation and typography tools to turn one Regular style into a font family: • Generate Auto Bold, Auto Italic, and Bold Italic drafts; redraw only what you want to change. • Smooth curves, refine contours, protect counters, and adjust glyph alignment. • Improve spacing, sidebearings, kerning, and glyph collisions. • Create contextual alternates and OpenType ligatures. • Export OTF, WOFF2 web-font packages, variable fonts, COLR/CPAL color fonts, and editable sources when compatible with the project. • Save proof sets and make specimen PDFs, font health reports, and review kits. Pro Monthly includes every current pack while active. Lifetime Pro includes the same tools and current packs permanently. If a Pro subscription ends, projects containing Pro-only edits remain viewable and exportable, but Pro editing is locked. Projects without active Pro-only content stay editable. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Font capture, image interpretation, cleanup, and export run on your device. LeFont does not require an account or cloud upload. Handwriting is never uploaded automatically; sharing a sample requires an explicit export and share action. Privacy Policy: https://elkwai.com/lefont-privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Dearscript
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dearscript at none against LeFont's 2. LeFont's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. LeFont sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Dearscript asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | LeFont | Dearscript |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kareem Elkwae | Dennis Koch |
In-app purchases
LeFont
- LeFont Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- LeFont Lifetime Pro$29.99
Dearscript
No in-app purchases








