Comparison

Lingua vs MeshForge

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

Head to head
About

Lingua

Create your own unique script and language, complete with custom keyboards and a dictionary. Share your creations with a global community and explore languages made by others.

Highlights
  • Custom script creation
  • Personalized keyboard layouts
  • Detailed language dictionary
  • Phonology and grammar tools
  • Community timeline for sharing
  • Exportable fonts and dictionaries
Features
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Lingua is where you make a language and then actually use it. YOUR SCRIPT Draw each letter with your finger. Lingua compiles your letters into a real font on your phone, and gives you a keyboard with your letters on the keys to type with in the app. You can also build keyboards of any existing characters (accented letters, IPA, symbols, other scripts) and use them in any app, free and as many as you like. Alphabet, abjad, syllabary, abugida or logography, written in any direction. Digits are letters too, in whatever base you choose. YOUR LANGUAGE A dictionary where every word has meanings, part of speech, examples, register and origin. Readings and IPA. A phonology page built from what you have written. A grammar of 44 chapters — cases, agreement, word order, negation, questions, derivation — whose rules really conjugate: describe a pattern once and every word in that class follows it. A calendar with your own month and weekday names, a notebook, and CSV import for a list you already have. A PLACE TO USE IT A timeline where people post lines in their own languages, in their own letters. Each post carries its letter shapes with it, so anyone can read your script without your font, and every post has a gloss so people can follow and reply even to a language nobody else speaks yet. Replies and threads, following, tags, a daily prompt everyone answers in their language, photos with your letters drawn on them, a 30-second voice clip, and a card that turns one line into a picture to share. Publish your language's page, and download the alphabet or dictionary of a language you like, to read. FREE AND PAID Free: a full a–z and 0–9 script, one language, a dictionary of 100 words, as many keyboards as you like, and the whole timeline. Plus and Pro add more letters, more words and more languages. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Terms: https://tokinets.com/lingua/terms.html Privacy: https://tokinets.com/lingua/privacy.html

About

MeshForge

Features
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FROM AN IDEA TO A PRINT ON YOUR BED Type what you want or snap a photo. MeshForge 3D turns it into a textured 3D model, gets it ready to print, and sends it to your printer over Wi-Fi. TWO WAYS TO MAKE A MODEL • Text to 3D: describe a character, a creature, a toy or a gift — pose, style, details — and MeshForge sculpts it. • Photo to 3D: start from a photo, a drawing or concept art. Add more views of the same subject for a closer match. • Concept art first: see pictures of your idea, pick the one you like, then turn it into 3D. • Pick a style and a quality level, and see the credit cost on the button before you start. READY TO PRINT • Every model is checked on your device for holes, broken edges and walls too thin to print. • Type the height you want and see the width, depth and how much material it needs. • Stand it on a round, square or hex base, joined to its feet. • Export STL, or 3MF with the size and base built in — or hand it to your slicer on a computer. SEND IT TO YOUR PRINTER • Add printers on your Wi-Fi: Bambu Lab, PrusaLink, Klipper (Moonraker), OctoPrint, Elegoo and Creality. • Slice on the phone and start a print on a Bambu Lab A1, P1S or P1P in PLA or PETG. • Follow every print — progress, layer, time left, temperatures — and pause, resume or stop it from your phone. • Bring timelapses to your phone and save them to Photos. • Printers are reached on your local network only. PRINT FILES YOU ALREADY HAVE • Open STL, OBJ and 3MF files from Files, Safari or any app, size them and send them to your printer. • Browse ready-made models from MakerWorld in Discover and print them in a few taps. INSPECT EVERY ANGLE • Orbit and zoom in a 360° viewer, or let the model turn on its own. • Switch to a solid colour or a wireframe to judge the shape. • Place the model on your desk in AR before you print it. FOR GAMES AND ANIMATION • Make it for Game: a rigged character or prop with PBR textures, with GLB and FBX first. • Make it for Animation: a rigged character with a motion clip, ready for a scene or a short video. • Make OBJ and USDZ files right on your device, and get GLB and the other formats each model comes with. • Share a web link that shows the model in any browser, and switch it off whenever you like. COMMUNITY • Browse what others make, like it, follow makers and remix an idea into your own model. • Share your models under a community name, and let others print them only if you choose. • Posts are screened before they appear, and you can report a post or block its author. YOUR PROFILE Every model you make is kept in your profile with your concept pictures and printers. Making a model keeps going when you leave the screen. Save your account by signing in, and your credits and models follow you to a new iPhone or iPad. CREDITS Each model costs credits, shown on the button before you start. Slicing, sending and following a print use no credits. Buy a one-time credit pack or subscribe to MeshForge Pro for credits every week, month or year. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage them in your App Store account settings. MeshForge 3D is not affiliated with the printer makers named above. --- Privacy Policy: https://say3d.app/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://say3d.app/terms/ Delete your data: https://say3d.app/delete-data/ Support: support@aiinnovators.pro

Screenshots

Lingua4 screens
MeshForge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: MeshForge at daily against Lingua's every 4 days. Lingua's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Lingua sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and MeshForge sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lingua ships an update every 4 days, MeshForge daily. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Lingua versus MeshForge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLinguaMeshForge
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB51 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperTSUBASA IHIRABIKEADDONS LLC

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Lingua

Subscriptions4
  • Lingua Plus$4.991 Month
  • Lingua Pro$9.991 Month
  • Lingua Plus Yearly$49.991 Year
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  • Lingua Pro Yearly$99.991 Year
6 purchases

MeshForge

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Pro Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$99.991 Year
One-time3
  • Starter · 100 Credits$9.99
  • Creator · 300 Credits$24.99
  • Studio · 800 Credits$49.99

Questions

Is Lingua free?
Lingua is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MeshForge free?
MeshForge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lingua or MeshForge have ads?
Neither Lingua nor MeshForge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lingua or MeshForge?
Lingua ships an update every 4 days, and MeshForge daily. Most recently, Lingua was updated on November 10, 2026 and MeshForge on November 10, 2026.

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