mazec vs ShortSheets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
mazec
This app provides a handwriting input method as an alternative to your keyboard for any application. It offers accurate handwriting recognition, predictive text, and customizable dictionaries to speed up your writing tasks. You can also input emojis and use it for emails, social posts, searches, and filling out forms.
- Real-time handwriting to text conversion
- Accurate predictive text
- Customizable learning dictionary
- Emoji input
- Works in all applications
- Handwrite emails, social posts, and searches
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### This is the English handwriting recognition app. Mazec offers you handwriting input as an alternative to your keyboard within any app on your device. If you want to write an email, make a social post or quickly jot your notes, mazec handwriting input technology offers you a speedy alternative to handwrite the message instead of using a keyboard. The Mazec handwriting input method app offers extremely accurate handwriting recognition and predictive text to intelligently guess your handwriting on the fly. It even allows you to enrich the dictionary with your own favorite terms and phrases, or your favorite URL’s and email addresses. Mazec handwriting input method for iOS saves you time writing emails, notes and social posts. Instead of fumbling with a keyboard (which often causes you to use both hands), with mazec all input can be completed with the touch of a finger. Mazec handwriting input provides handwriting conversion while you are on the go. Its advanced technology is due to vast semantic databases built over MyScript, the world leader in handwriting recognition technology. Mazec handwriting input features include: 1. The most advanced experience for real-time conversion of handwriting to text, due to MyScript , the leader of handwriting recognition technology. 2. Extremely accurate predictive text due to natively-authored dictionaries of technical terms and popular phraseology 3. Auto and manual learning dictionary mazec can intelligently “learn” frequently used phrases automatically. You can also ”teach” mazec to memorize short sentences, such as "TYVM" to "Thank you very much" and allows you to customize the user dictionary to your own favorite phrases 4. Emoji input Mazec includes more than just emoticons, but over 100 selected Emojis in 12 categories. Just write "Emoji" or one of category name as "face", "moon", "animal" etc. , then the list of Emojis will pop up. Categories of Emojis include: Faces, Fingers, Weather, Moons, Animals, Hearts, Balls, Fruit, Flowers, Buildings, Trains and Cars 5. Handwriting Input available to all applications on the device Because mazec is written as an input method to iOS, it acts as an alternative keyboard within any application on the device that accepts input. 6. Handwriting Emails and Social Posts Mazec makes writing emails, blogs and social posts quick and fun and saves you time 7. Handwrite Google Searches With the mazec Handwriting Input app, browsing the internet and conducting Google searches has never been easier 8. Quickly fill out web forms and important documents online With mazec, it becomes extremely easy and quick to fill out web forms and critical documents online, thus saving time from printing PDF files and scanning to be sent back 9. Multiple languages The app itself supports English language only. Handwriting recognition add-ons for French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), and Korean are available as in-app-purchase apps. We’d love to hear your feedback and feature requests. Email us at: support_anytime@metamoji.com or join our community at https://getsatisfaction.com/mazec
ShortSheets
This app enhances your device's automation capabilities by integrating with Google Drive and Google Sheets. It allows for reading, writing, appending, and finding data within spreadsheets, as well as managing files in your cloud storage. Widgets are also available for quick access to sheet values and goals.
- Read, write, and append Google Sheets
- Find specific data ranges in Sheets
- List files in Google Drive
- Duplicate Google Drive files
- Sheet Value widget
- Sheet Goal widget
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Bringing a whole set of new capabilities to Shortcuts. Easily read, write or append a Google Sheet. Duplicate a Google Drive file. Action list: - Google Sheets: Read, write or append - Google Sheets: Find range for value - Google Drive: List your files Widgets: - Sheet Value - Sheet Goal
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: mazec at $12.99 against ShortSheets's $99.99. mazec also leads on ratings volume (43 vs 6) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). ShortSheets's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 63%). On ads 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
mazec costs $12.99 and ShortSheets $99.99 up front. mazec sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. ShortSheets asks for nothing beyond the download.
ShortSheets holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: mazec has 43 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of mazec's written reviews are positive against 100% of ShortSheets's.
mazec ships an update every 10 months, ShortSheets every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and August 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | mazec | ShortSheets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12.99 — better | $99.99 |
| Rating | 3.6 (43 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MetaMoJi Corporation | Hunter Hillegas |
Customer experience
mazec
ShortSheets
In-app purchases
mazec
- mazec Language Add-Ons (Japanese)$9.99
- mazec Language Add-Ons (French)$9.99
- mazec Language Add-Ons (German)$9.99
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- mazec Language Add-Ons (Italian)$9.99
- mazec Language Add-Ons (Spanish)$9.99
- mazec Language Add-Ons (Russian)$9.99
- mazec Language Add-Ons (Portuguese)$9.99
- mazec Language Add-Ons (Chinese)$9.99
- mazec Language Add-Ons (Korean)$9.99
- mazec Language Add-Ons (All languages)$24.99
ShortSheets
No in-app purchases









