SNIP vs Marea Type
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SNIP
Capture letters from photos, lift them off their backgrounds, and collect them. Use your collected letters to create new designs on a canvas, saving your work as transparent PNGs. All processing happens on your device.
- Lift letters from photos with touch and hold
- Freehand, rectangle, or ellipse cutting tools
- Add or subtract from cuts
- Organize letters by type and star favorites
- Design on a canvas with move, resize, and rotate
- Export designs as transparent PNGs
- All on-device processing
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For anyone who takes a photo whenever they spot great type. SNIP lets you collect letters you find in the world and use them to create new words and designs. Signs, posters, stickers, even lettering left on a wall. Instead of leaving it buried in your camera roll, cut it out and make it yours to use. ■ Collect letters from photos Take a photo, then press and hold to separate a letter from its background. There’s no need to trace every edge. And when you want more control, you can refine your selection with freeform, rectangle, and circle tools. For Korean, separated consonants and vowels can still be recognized as a single letter. Collect letters one by one, or cut out a whole word and save it as a word. ■ Your own Library of letters Your pieces are organized into letters, Words, and elements. Letters can be browsed by Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese. Use favorites to keep frequently used pieces close, and hide languages you don’t use to keep your Library tidy. The letters sitting in your camera roll become a collection you can reach for anytime. ■ Create with what you collect Arrange pieces freely on the Canvas, then move, resize, and rotate them to build words, phrases, and designs. Edit multiple pieces at once and save your finished work as a PNG with a transparent background. You can also set a word or phrase as your goal and collect the letters you need to complete it. ■ Everything stays on your device No login or account is required. Your photos, collected letters and words, and finished work stay on your device. Letter recognition and editing happen there too.
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 SNIP's 1. 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. SNIP sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Marea Type asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | SNIP | Marea Type |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | minhyeok kim | Nikita Titov |
In-app purchases
SNIP
- SNIP Pro$2.99
Marea Type
No in-app purchases









