Calligraphy HD vs Neon Font
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.
Neon Font
Create custom animated fonts for your messages using your own handwriting. Personalize your text with various colors, brush sizes, and keyboard themes. Supports multiple languages and is compatible with popular chat applications.
- Draw letters with handwriting
- Multiple language support
- Select animation colors
- Adjust brush color and size
- Switch keyboard styles
- Change keyboard themes
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Easily create own fonts, using the [Neon Font: Keyboard Maker]. Make amazing animated fonts that can be used everywhere you can type a message: iMessage, WhatsApp, Sanpchat, WeChat, Telegram, Skype, Line and many others. Features: - Draw letters with your hand writing. - Support multiple languages. - Select animation colors. - Select brush's color and size. - Switch keyboard style. - Change keyboard themes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Neon Font at 67% against Calligraphy HD's 10%. Neon Font also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.6) and ads (none vs shown). Calligraphy HD's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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 Neon Font sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Neon Font holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 64 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of Calligraphy HD's written reviews are positive against 67% of Neon Font's.
Calligraphy HD ships an update every 3 months, Neon Font every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calligraphy HD | Neon Font |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (64 ratings) | 4.0 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.4% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TOUCHSCREEN LEARNING LTD | 江 邱 |
Customer experience
Calligraphy HD
Neon Font
In-app purchases
Calligraphy HD
- Calligraphy HD Full App$2.99
Neon Font
- Neon Font Keyboard - IAP$3.99
