Tangible Words vs Paint Shapes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tangible Words
Explore the dynamic interplay between typography and interaction with this educational app. Manipulate words and letters with your fingers to create engaging visual experiences.
- Interactive motion typography
- Finger-based manipulation
- Explores typography and interaction
- Educational art experience
- Designed for iPhone and iPad
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"Tangible Words" is an interactive motion typography you can play with your fingers. It is an iPhone/iPad app developed and based around the theme of the relationship between typography & interaction; made by students at Seian University of Art and Design. Download and play with tangible words. Please enjoy.
Paint Shapes
Unleash your creativity by painting with geometric shapes. Learn to identify shapes in the world around you and translate them into art. Challenge friends and develop your artistic thinking.
- Paint with geometric shapes
- Identify shapes in the environment
- Develop artistic thinking
- Challenge friends
- Shape deletion tool
- Customizable color selection
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Improve your creativity and artistic skills. Have fun painting only with geometric shapes. Everything around us is a geometric figure, just find their shapes and draw them here. You will be surprise how your brains start thinking different to trying to paint what is in your mind. Surprise your friends and challenge them. How to use the app: 1- How to paint: Select from the right tool bar one of the shapes (filled or just stroke). Then put your finger in the screen and move the finger without lifting it. 2 - How to delete a shape: You can delete only shape by shape pressing the trash can at the top right corner. 3 - How to change colors: Touch the colorful little square at the top toolbar, select the color at the vertical bar and then how dark or light you want that color in the big square. Once you have the color you need just touch outside the dialog and the color will be selected and added to the Recent colors bar. Visit us on Facebook at: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/paintshapes/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/paintshapes/ #paint #painting #shapes #drawing #creativity #geometry #kids #art #design
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Paint Shapes at 100% against Tangible Words's 0%. Paint Shapes also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 13 months). Tangible Words's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Paint Shapes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Tangible Words's written reviews are positive against 100% of Paint Shapes's.
Tangible Words ships an update every 13 months, Paint Shapes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tangible Words | Paint Shapes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seian University of Art and Design | Benny Jon |
Customer experience
Tangible Words
Paint Shapes
In-app purchases
Tangible Words
No in-app purchases
Paint Shapes
No in-app purchases
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