LazyDog calligraphy practice

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About this app

Learn and practice classic handwriting styles anytime.
Keep track of your progress with individual letter scores.
Print worksheets.
Get a quick access to relevant calligraphy supplies to help you get started.

- Basic cursive
- Copperplate / Roundhand
- Blackletter / Gothic script
- Italic script / Chancery cursive

* Left hand writing mode is not available at the moment

Ad free version available here

For Hebrew calligraphy try 'Ktav' by this developer

Ratings and reviews

This idea of this app is really awesome, but there are some HUGE flaws. First, no lefty mode? I mean, you're excluding 10-25% of the population there... It's extremely awkward crossing my T's backwards (I'm obviously a lefty) and the slant for cursive fonts is different for lefties. Also, there is no option to change the size, nor can you practice full words with consecutively flowing letters. Forced to lift pen between each letter and that feels unnatural. Could use more than 4 fonts too.

This app is really helping me learn how to do blackletter font with my stylus correctly outside of the app when I use it for reference! I really enjoy the interface and the way it teaches you to do the strokes, I also love the custom words option. I just wish that there were more fonts than the handful that they offer, I'd probably even consider buying more fonts if they were appealing enough.

I adore this app. The only thing I don't like, is I have to actually complete the letter tracing to move on to the next letter. I actually like using this app for reference when using pen and paper. It's a bit of inconvenience in that respect. I can watch the letter be drawn and learn how to make the letters step by step. I'd be more than happy to pay to for more types, particularly the blackletter types. And being able to skip through letters without tracing, would be perfect!