Dayforge vs Meshk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dayforge
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Dayforge helps you turn intention into real follow-through each day. Build habits you actually want to keep and check them off in a clean daily flow. Stay consistent with less friction and more clarity. Open Dayforge, choose your habits, and assign the weekdays that matter for each one. The app shows what is relevant for the selected date, so you can focus on action instead of setup noise. As you complete habits, your daily progress updates immediately. **Weekday Scheduling That Fits Real Life** Create habits with custom weekday schedules so your list reflects your actual routine. You only see habits that belong on that day, which keeps every session focused and doable. **Daily Progress You Can Feel** Track completion with a clear progress ring and completion percentage for each day. You always know where you stand before the day ends, making follow-through easier. **Long-Range Consistency Insights** Review completion percentages across 7, 30, 60, 90, or 180 days. These windows help you spot momentum, recover faster, and build confidence with real data. **Notes That Preserve Context** Add notes to a day or to individual habit entries whenever context matters. Capture wins, blockers, and patterns so your progress history stays meaningful. **Portable Data With Backup and Restore** Export your data to a JSON backup whenever you want a copy of your records. Restore from backup in Settings to continue your tracking history with confidence. Download Dayforge and build a steadier routine one completed habit at a time.
Meshk
Master beautiful handwriting with real-time stroke guidance and validation across multiple writing systems. Learn Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Devanagari with structured courses, animated guides, and scored practice sessions. Designed for iPad and Apple Pencil.
- Real-time stroke guidance and validation
- Support for 6+ writing systems
- Animated stroke guides
- Structured courses and exams
- Lined notebook mode
- Custom font import
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Learn to write by hand — really write. Meshk is a handwriting and calligraphy trainer that guides your pen stroke by stroke, scores every stroke in real time, and covers 140 writing systems in one app. From Latin cursive and Arabic calligraphy to Chinese hanzi, Japanese kana, Korean Hangul, Devanagari, Tamil, Thai, Cherokee, Ge'ez and N'Ko — 73 scripts in living use today, 66 historic ones, 163 practice packs and 12,818 characters, every one with authentic stroke order. WHAT YOU PRACTICE 140 writing systems Latin (print, cursive, formal script, school manuscript) and Cyrillic · Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac and Thaana · Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Japanese kanji and kana, Korean Hangul and hanja, Bopomofo · 39 Brahmic scripts including Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Odia, Sinhala and Tibetan · 17 Southeast Asian scripts including Thai, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, Javanese, Balinese and Baybayin · African scripts including Ge'ez, N'Ko, Tifinagh, Vai, Adlam and Bamum · Armenian, Georgian and Greek · and 66 historic scripts from Egyptian-era alphabets to Runic, Gothic, Glagolitic, Old Turkic, Brahmi, Linear B and Cuneiform-era writing. Hat — classical Arabic calligraphy Five historical styles taught the traditional way: Naskh, Thuluth, Diwani, Ruq'ah and Kufi, with right-to-left guides and reed-pen (qalam) simulation that reproduces the angled nib of a real calligrapher. Hat Studio Meşk the way calligraphers learn it: 896 Arabic compositions, from single words and joined words to full lines, stacked compositions, panels, the tughra and mirrored writing, each written stroke by stroke with a reed pen. Eight more pen hands (Foundational, Uncial, Cyrillic and Greek broad pen, Hebrew Ashuri, Hangul Panbonche, Chinese Kaishu, Japanese Kaisho) and a drawing shelf of 84 exercises in line, ellipse, form, perspective, value, contour and construction. Real stroke scoring Not tracing theatre. Every stroke is compared with the master stroke for direction, order, shape and placement, then scored. Hints show exactly where your stroke went off. Animated stroke guides Watch each character written stroke by stroke, replay at your own speed, then write it yourself over a dotted outline, on lines, or on a blank page. Courses, lessons and exams Every script has a structured course: single letters, lowercase and uppercase, connecting letters, words, then an exam that scores you and awards stars. Kids Zone Playful, age-appropriate letter tracing for children — shapes, letters, words, badges and streaks, with a progress map they want to finish. Your own practice material Add your own words, your own texts and blank practice papers. Meshk builds lessons from whatever you want to write — a name, a poem, a vocabulary list. Import your own fonts Bring any writing style in as SVG and Meshk turns it into a guided, scored course. MADE FOR APPLE PENCIL Low-latency ink, pressure and tilt response, paper-texture haptics and hover support. It feels like a pen on paper, not a finger on glass. Works on iPhone too. PERFECT FOR • Adults fixing their handwriting • Language learners who want to write, not just type • Calligraphy beginners and enthusiasts • Children learning their first letters • Teachers and tutors running handwriting classes • Anyone learning a new alphabet before a trip, a course or an exam MESHK PRO Meshk Pro opens connecting letters, word lessons, unlimited exams and your own words, texts and practice papers in every course. Download Meshk and write your first letter today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meshk at none against Dayforge's 1. Meshk also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Dayforge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Meshk asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dayforge ships an update every 5 weeks, Meshk weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dayforge | Meshk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.9 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fishington Studios | Cihat Salik |
In-app purchases
Dayforge
- Upgrade to Pro$4.99
Meshk
No in-app purchases









