It’s never too late to learn a skill. If you’ve always wanted to learn calligraphy or just want to improve your handwriting, now you can start with these Android apps.
The apps will guide you through a step-by-step process so that you can gradually pick up tips and tricks to write beautifully. The target audience of some of these apps are children. However, adults can benefit just as much from the courses.
So, let’s take a look at the seven best Android apps that you can use to practice calligraphy and improve your handwriting.
1. Lazy Dog
LazyDog is a calligraphy and cursive writing app. This app provides more than five writing styles to help you practice calligraphy and writing skills to improve your handwriting.
These styles include a monoline copper plate, blackletter, basic italic cursive, comic lettering, and more. The app provides the writer with different tips on where to apply pressure and when to use the stroke and pen angle.
As you begin to practice a particular style, you will be given constant feedback about your stroke and writing, and encouraged through comments such as “not bad” or “well done”. You can start practicing with words, capitals, or adapted words, whichever you prefer.
2. Stylograph
Stylograph is a very useful and simple app to learn new writing fonts and calligraphy styles. This app provides more than 20 writing scripts in 20 different colors. It also helps you choose between a round and square pen or brush to practice freely.
Stylograph gives you the option to choose from letters, numbers and words to start practicing. Once you choose the category, it allows you to choose the script and even lets you choose the word of your choice.
The app gives instant feedback about the accuracy of your writing by giving a zero to 100 percent reading on the accuracy meter, which helps you improve with each practice session. Furthermore, the app allows you to clear, undo, swap as well as share your writings.
3. Cursive Calligraphy ABC
If you are interested in cursive writing, Cursive Calligraphy ABC is your app. It offers a combination of cursive writing and calligraphy and allows you to choose from any type of alphabet.
You can practice all letters from cursive letters, or random lowercase or capital letters. Similar is the case with the calligraphy alphabet—it allows both uppercase and lowercase letters on the go.
During cursive letter practice, the app first demonstrates how to write the letter by filling it with different colors and then makes you practice it. In the case of calligraphy, you are given practice numbers with arrows to point you in the right direction and precise tracing. The writing is very professional and can be used by kids as well as adults.
4. Calligrapher
If you want to create a new style of calligraphy, write and practice freely, and choose from a variety of backgrounds and colors, Calligrapher offers it all. This app uses a variety of pens and pencils to help you create calligraphic designs on different backgrounds.
There are four types of pens of different widths and different thickness depending on the speed of movement. They all create different styles, allow for different colors of lines and backgrounds, and also help you save your art to the gallery for future use.
There is also a Pro version of the app which offers some advanced features. For example, you can vary the slope angles of the pencil to varying degrees to create unique calligraphic designs.
5. Flourish
Flourish is a digital calligraphy app for Android that helps you practice handwriting. This app includes over 50 tracing letters as well as hand drawn calligrams to practice on. You can also choose different background textures once you’ve completed your tracing.
The app provides a number of pens, paintbrushes and markers to help you create various designs. Furthermore, it also allows you to choose multiple colors as a background for your art.
You can save your art in gallery and use it later. There is also a Pro version of this app that unlocks some pens and markers, background fonts, and some designs as well as tracing words.
6. Easy Cursive Handwriting
This app is an easy cursive writing learning app that can benefit different age groups, mainly school going children. The app has two modes: Easy Mode and Self-Learning Mode.
Easy mode allows you to initially view the demo tracing and then trace it yourself. Self-learning mode allows you to choose your particular style and create worksheets of your chosen alphabets and exercises.
When you open the app, it gives you slides to help you understand how the app works, and once you’ve read it, you can get started. You can zoom in and out on your self-made worksheet and even change the pen size.