Curvly vs Marea Type
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Curvly
Create unique designs by flowing text along custom paths on your photos. Draw any shape, style your text with various fonts and effects, and export high-quality creations. AI can generate backdrops based on your descriptions.
- Freehand path drawing
- AI-generated image backdrops
- Multiple text layers
- Rich text styling and effects
- Canvas ratio cropping
- High-resolution export
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Turn your photos into eye-catching designs with curved, flowing text. Curvly lets you draw any freehand path on your photo and instantly places your text along it — creating unique, professional-looking results in seconds. HOW IT WORKS • Choose a photo from your gallery, camera, or search millions of free photos from Unsplash — or describe one and let Curvly AI create it • Pick your canvas: keep the original, or crop to story, post or square before you start • Draw a path with your finger — any shape, any curve, or take a Smart Placement suggestion • Type your text and watch it flow along the path • Style it: one-tap effects, fonts, colors, letter shape and spacing • Export and share your creation FEATURES • Freehand path drawing — complete creative freedom • Smart Placement: on-device suggestions for where your text fits best — arches, waves, lines and badges that steer clear of faces • Canvas ratios: original, 4:5, 9:16, 1:1, 3:4 and 1.91:1 — crop first so your design fits where you'll post it • True typography: real kerning, ligatures, and OpenType shaping • Full Arabic & Urdu support with connected letterforms • Multiple text layers on a single photo • Rotate and resize a layer with two fingers — the path turns with the text • Duplicate a layer with its style: same font, color and effects • Set where the text starts along the path • Rich text styling: fonts, colors, stroke outlines, shadows • Text effects: neon glow, 3D depth, long shadow and outline • Stretch letters taller or wider, open letter spacing, lift text off the path • Drag or pinch right on the preview to fine-tune • Auto-fit text to path length • Wide color (P3) exports that keep your photo's original quality • Pinch-to-zoom export preview • Save and reopen your projects anytime • Built-in Unsplash photo search CURVLY AI • Describe the backdrop you have in mind and get an image in seconds • Add the words you want on it — Curvly AI sets them on curved paths as editable layers, never baked into the image • Choose where the text goes and its style, or start from a ready-made template • Story, post and square sizes, ready to keep designing • Optional weekly or monthly subscription; AI credits renew every period and every Pro feature is included • Only your description and text are sent to create the image — your photos never leave your device CURVLY PRO • Export without watermark • High-resolution export, up to 4K • Premium font collection • 10 Curvly AI credits included • One-time purchase Perfect for social media posts, stories, greeting cards, invitations, quotes, and any creative project where flat text just isn't enough. Terms of Use: https://definetelyhuman.com/apps/curvly/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://definetelyhuman.com/apps/curvly/privacy.html
Marea Type
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Marea Type is a space for typography. Create posters, quotes, covers, and expressive type compositions with precise tools built specifically around text — without the clutter of a general-purpose graphics editor. Work across multiple artboards in one workspace, build visual series, and compare different composition ideas. Fine-tune font size, tracking, leading, alignment, and other type settings, explore variable fonts, and shape each text layer with precision. Marea Type is built around type itself: its form, rhythm, scale, and space. Features: multiple artboards in a single project; precise font size, tracking, and leading controls; variable fonts and supported axis controls; alignment and rich text formatting; text layer rotation, horizontal scaling, and opacity; a curated bundled font library; PNG export for selected or all artboards; light and dark appearance. Typography Lab Typography Lab is an integrated space for learning and exploring typography. Learn foundational ideas, experiment with real type controls, explore variable font behavior, and work through practical typography challenges. Selected exercises can be carried directly into the editor and continued as normal compositions. Learn → Try → Explore → Apply
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Marea Type at none against Curvly's 1. Curvly's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.2). 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. Curvly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Marea Type asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Curvly | Marea Type |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alper Albayrak | Nikita Titov |
In-app purchases
Curvly
- PRO$9.99
Marea Type
No in-app purchases









