HanziPress vs Letterpaths
HanziPress
hanzipress.comLetterpaths
robinlinacre.comSide by side
| Figure | HanziPress | Letterpaths |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · Handwriting Practice Apps | 8.1 (#8) | 8.4 (#5) |
| Audience | HanziPress says it is designed for Chinese learners, teachers, parents, and classrooms. | The cursive worksheet generator is described as built for UK primary teachers, parents, home educators, and teaching assistants. |
| Worksheet generator | The worksheet generator turns Chinese text, vocabulary, textbook lessons, and poems into customizable, print-ready vector PDFs. | The type-in generator lets users enter text on lined pages, adjust letter height, tracing darkness and writing guides, then print. |
| Worksheets | Users can turn Chinese text, vocabulary, textbook lessons, or poems into printable handwriting worksheets. | The worksheet generators create printable cursive, joined, print, and pre-cursive handwriting practice. |
Plans
In their own words
HanziPress
HanziPress has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Letterpaths
Letterpaths is a free handwriting practice resource linked to the UK primary school curriculum. It provides worksheet generators for cursive, joined, print, and pre-cursive writing, with custom word practice for words, names, and spellings. Print and pre-cursive sheets can show guide lines, stroke order, arrows, and numbered starting points. Tracing activities include guided modes with plain, snake, and rollercoaster skins, plus freehand tracing using grey word shapes and checkpoints. The tools run on the web and on iOS and Android; the apps can open in a browser or be installed for a full-screen tablet or phone experience. Cursive worksheets encode their settings in the page URL, allowing links to be copied for saving or sharing. The associated cursive font works on the web and in Microsoft Word or Apple Keynote. Letterpaths also links to a public TypeScript library that generates handwriting geometry data for other applications to render.