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Calligraphy Penmanship vs Calligraphy - Art Maker

An honest comparison based on real user reviews. Both are popular Calligraphy apps — but which one do users complain about less?

Calligraphy Penmanship

Main Weakness

Deceptive trial model combined with broken Apple Pencil pressure sensitivity and severe performance issues

"The trial period is 80 hours continuously. As soon as you start using the app, you have 80 hours until the trial is up regardless of whether you are on the app or not."
"App is not responsive to pressure from the Apple Pencil which is not very useful for learning calligraphy"

Calligraphy - Art Maker

Main Weakness

Missing core features (transparent backgrounds, font size controls) and intrusive ads with forced crypto app downloads

"I cannot find a transparent background ! That greatly limits creativity and makes this app almost useless to me ."
"Worst of all, the app forces you to download some crypto app."

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