Calligraphy HD vs Super Simple Draw
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calligraphy HD
Explore the art of calligraphy with a wide selection of digital nibs and brushes. Customize stroke thickness, texture, and pen angle to develop your unique lettering style. Save your creations to your device's photo gallery.
- Customizable nibs and brushes
- Adjustable stroke thickness
- Varying stroke texture
- Pen angle control
- Variety of backgrounds
- Save artwork to gallery
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Develop and create your very personal lettering style with Calligraphy HD Calligraphy HD comes with a choice of nibs and brushes, simply select your favourite tool and instantly vary nib thickness, stroke texture and pen angle. Discover a variety of backgrounds and save your artwork to your device photo gallery.
Super Simple Draw
A minimalist drawing application designed for quick sketches and notes, offering seamless integration with Apple Pencil and widgets. It supports various iPad features and standard iOS sharing, making it as easy to use as a physical whiteboard.
- Home screen widgets
- Apple Pencil gesture support
- iPad multitasking
- Grid and lined backgrounds
- Draw on images
- Save for Instagram
- Undo/redo functionality
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Minimalist drawing app. Supports Apple Pencil (new & old), widgets, both portrait & landscape, iPad multitasking, standard iOS share, the latest devices. Pick up & use. Like a white board or scratch paper. Features: • Widget to show case the latest or favorite drawing on the home screen • Apple Pencil gesture support • Multi-window and multitasking support on iPadOS • Original Apple Pencil support • Grid background and lined background • Draw on top of another picture • Save square images for Instagram submission • Draw in either landscape or portrait • Undo and redo • Standard iOS share/action button (copy, save, send to other messaging/social apps) Perfect for: • Jotting down notes • Illustrate something to friends/coworkers through drawing • Draw/sketch something casually • Tell stories to kids with quick illustrations • Play quick random games with friends (e.g. draw and guess, or any simple board game you just invented) • Practice some basic drawing skills (drawing straight line, parallel lines, circles, faces, etc) Draw for a better world: Super Simple Draw started as a way to reduce the use of papers because we believe that the current environmental degradation and the climate change are pressing issues that demand urgent actions. Now we took a step further: for every ~2000 lines you draw, we plant a tree through a partnership with Trees for the Future. More than ten thousand trees have been planted so far. Learn more at https://trees.theiosapp.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Super Simple Draw at 82% against Calligraphy HD's 10%. Super Simple Draw also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.6) and ratings volume (4K vs 64). Calligraphy HD's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). 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. Calligraphy HD sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Super Simple Draw sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Super Simple Draw holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Super Simple Draw has 4K ratings behind it against 64, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of Calligraphy HD's written reviews are positive against 82% of Super Simple Draw's.
Calligraphy HD ships an update every 3 months, Super Simple Draw every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calligraphy HD | Super Simple Draw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (64 ratings) | 4.7 (4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.4% of reviews | 82.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 64 | 4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TOUCHSCREEN LEARNING LTD | Bao Lei |
Customer experience
Calligraphy HD
Super Simple Draw
Bugs and requests
Calligraphy HD
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Super Simple Draw
Reported bugs
2 issues- In-app purchase issues with ads still showing
- Compatibility problems on older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add zoom and pan functionality
- Implement more brush/tool options
- Expand color palette
- Add ability to save and load drawings
In-app purchases
Calligraphy HD
- Calligraphy HD Full App$2.99
Super Simple Draw
- Remove Ads$0.99
Questions
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