Comparison

Lingua vs Handfont

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

Handfont

Features
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Write 24 letters once. Get a font that writes all 11,172 Korean syllables in your own hand. PAPER CAPTURE Print the jamo sheet from the app, write each letter with a pen, and take one photo. Four corner markers straighten the page, the 24 boxes are cut apart, and your handwriting becomes a font. Nothing leaves your phone - extraction, assembly and font generation all run on the device. OR WRITE ON SCREEN No printer nearby? Draw each letter with a finger or a stylus. Same result. 11,172 SYLLABLES FROM 24 LETTERS Hangul is assembled, not drawn one character at a time. Handfont places your initial, medial and final letters at the right coordinates, so every Korean syllable comes out in your handwriting - along with Latin letters, digits and punctuation. TUNE IT Adjust stroke weight, slant, letter spacing and baseline until it looks like you. EXPORT Save a real .ttf file and use it anywhere fonts are accepted. WRITE AND KEEP Write a letter or a card in your font and save it. Come back later and edit it - weight and slant are kept per writing, so a note and a title can look different. FREE AND PRO The first font is free. Pro unlocks unlimited fonts and permanent font tuning, and removes ads - a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://app.mint-soft.com/apps/handfont/terms Privacy Policy: https://app.mint-soft.com/apps/handfont/privacy

Screenshots

Lingua4 screens
Handfont4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Handfont at none against Lingua's 4. Lingua's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Lingua sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Handfont asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Lingua versus Handfont: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLinguaHandfont
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTSUBASA IHIRAmint-soft

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
None

Handfont

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lingua free?
Lingua is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Handfont free?
Handfont is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lingua or Handfont have ads?
Handfont shows ads; Lingua does not.

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