Comparison

Dearscript vs Font Maker

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

Head to head
About

Dearscript

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.

About

Font Maker

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Make a real font from the way you write. Font Maker: TypeMine is a handwriting studio for creators, students, teachers, and anyone who wants personal text. Draw characters on your iPhone, refine the spacing, preview your work, and export files you can keep. There is no account, advertising, analytics, or cloud upload. CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT TO DRAW Begin with Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, or Hebrew, no matter which language the app uses. You can also paste a phrase and let TypeMine make a compact drawing set from only the characters it contains. Small stages help you reach a usable result quickly, celebrate each completed set, and decide whether to create text now or continue. Every project is saved automatically and remains editable. You never have to finish an entire alphabet. Draw one useful set, preview it, compose with the characters you have, and add more later. For scripts that change letter shapes when characters join, contextual shaping is not supported in this version. The low-latency canvas supports a finger and Apple Pencil. Baseline, x-height, cap-height, and descender guides help letters sit together naturally. Choose among three stroke widths, undo or redo, fit a drawing to the guides, and tune each character's width. Clear actions ask for confirmation. PREVIEW WHILE YOU WORK TypeMine compiles your strokes locally and uses the resulting font for live previews. Export a TTF from any non-empty set you have drawn; you do not need to complete a preset alphabet first. Missing characters produce a clear warning and use the font's missing-character mark. Characters remain editable between exports. CREATE TEXT ART IN THE APP • Write multiline text with a live preview in your font • Change font size, alignment, and line spacing • Choose text and background colors • Use a transparent background when you need only the lettering • Switch among square, story, portrait, and page-shaped canvases Export a transparent PNG, styled PNG, PDF, TTF, or one package with every format. Image and PDF exports check your composition first. If a character has not been drawn, TypeMine tells you what is missing instead of silently replacing your work. AN OPTIONAL, HONEST KEYBOARD The optional TypeMine keyboard provides QWERTY keys, shift, delete, space, return, and keyboard switching. Normal typing works without Full Access. It previews a message in your selected local font. Host apps control text-field fonts, so a keyboard cannot force a custom TTF into normal text. Full Access is optional and used only to copy that rendered message as a transparent image. The keyboard does not inspect host text, connect to a server, collect keystrokes, or send your writing anywhere. FREE EXPORTS WITH YOUR BADGE Drawing, editing, previews, projects, keyboard typing, and exports are unlimited. Free images include a Made with TypeMine badge so others discover the app. TypeMine Plus is optional. Choose yearly or lifetime access to remove the badge from exported work. There is no trial or weekly plan, and Restore Purchases is in Settings. MADE TO BE CLEAR TypeMine combines a bright canvas with strong contrast, large controls, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver labels, dark mode, right-to-left layout, and Reduce Motion behavior. The language picker includes 50 choices, and character-set choice stays independent from the app language. TypeMine Plus purchase information - TypeMine Plus offers an auto-renewable yearly subscription and a one-time lifetime purchase. Both remove the Made with TypeMine badge from exports. - Payment is charged to your App Store account when you confirm the purchase. - The yearly subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Lifetime access does not renew. - You can manage or cancel the subscription in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://yumcut.com/mobile/privacy

Screenshots

Dearscript4 screens
Font Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dearscript at none against Font Maker's 2. Font Maker's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Font Maker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Dearscript asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 3 level
Dearscript versus Font Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDearscriptFont Maker
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.516.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDennis KochIhar Shaduryn

In-app purchases

None

Dearscript

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Font Maker

Subscriptions1
  • TypeMine Plus Annual$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • TypeMine Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Dearscript free?
Dearscript is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Font Maker free?
Font Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dearscript or Font Maker have ads?
Neither Dearscript nor Font Maker shows ads.

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