活字帖 | Live Calligraphy5.6 - App Store

***Featured*** as "Chinese Culture" in more than 120 countries during Chinese Spring Festival, 2015.

***Over 5,000*** 5-star ratings in App Store China.

Learn and practice Chinese brush calligraphy with your finger in iPad and iPhone.

Live Calligraphy uses the original strokes extracted from the master piece of ancient calligrapher in your practice, so that you can feel yourself like a real master of Chinese calligraphy, and fully enjoy the artistic charm of the art of calligraphy.

LanTing calligraphy scroll is generally considered as the best running script in ancient China, and Live Calligraphy provides over 100 characters of LanTing in current release, wish you like them.

Enjoy Chinese calligraphy~

Now, the app contains 8 handscrolls:
- LanTing (兰亭集序--王羲之)
- Basic Strokes (基本笔画--楷书四大家)
- Timely Clearing After Snowfall (快雪时晴帖--王羲之)
- Namo Amitābha by HongYi (南无阿弥陀佛--弘一法师)
- Poem of Fragrance (秾芳诗帖--宋徽宗)
- Confucius Passed Away (仲尼梦奠帖--欧阳询)
- Ode to Qin (琴赋--文征明)
- Heart Sutra (心经--赵孟頫)

*Keyword*: Chinese calligraphy, Chinese culture/art, practice Chinese characters

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你是否曾想像自己如书法大师一样挥毫呢？来试试吧，用你的手指在iPad和iPhone上练习毛笔书法。

“活字帖”利用中国古代名家书法作品中的原笔迹，在你描摹或者临帖时绘制出来，使得你的书法效果能媲美真迹，让你体验如书法家一样的练字感受，更真切的感受书法的魅力。

本作与现有大多数作品的最大区别在于，大多数现有的作品只是根据手指运行轨迹，用计算机计算模拟出类似于毛笔笔迹的效果。但是，因为触摸屏的限制，计算机再如何聪明，又如何能知道用户运笔时的轻重缓急，浓淡干湿呢？故本作规避了用笔技巧，着重于练习每个字的字体结构。因此，本作并不能代替笔墨纸砚的常规练字方法，但是却可以从一定程度上提高用户的书法水平。

《兰亭集序》被誉为中国古代书法的第一行书，本版本免费提供前100个字，后续字体需要IAP解锁或者由完整版获得。

本App现有8个字帖:
- 兰亭集序（王羲之）
- 基本笔画（楷书四大家）
- 快雪时晴帖（王羲之）
- 南无阿弥陀佛（弘一法师）
- 秾芳诗帖（宋徽宗）
- 仲尼梦奠帖（欧阳询）
- 琴赋（文徵明）
- 般若波罗蜜多心经 (赵孟頫)

希望大家喜欢。

Version History support iOS26 5.6 10/08/2025 support iOS18 5.5 02/10/2025 support iOS17 5.4 10/06/2023 support latest iOS 5.3 01/07/2023 regular update 5.2 05/04/2022 New hand scroll added.

Now, the app contains 9 handscrolls:
- LanTing (兰亭集序)
- Basic Strokes (基本笔画--楷书四大家)
- Timely Clearing After Snowfall (快雪时晴帖)
- Namo Amitābha by HongYi (南无阿弥陀佛--弘一法师)
- Poem of Fragrance (秾芳诗帖)
- Confucius Passed Away (仲尼梦奠帖)
- Ode to Qin (琴赋)
- Heart Sutra (心经)
- Thousand Character Classic in Cursive Script (草书千字文) 5.1 05/21/2021 Update for iOS14 5.0.1 10/21/2020 New hand scroll added.

Now, the app contains 8 handscrolls:
- LanTing (兰亭集序)
- Basic Strokes (基本笔画--楷书四大家)
- Timely Clearing After Snowfall (快雪时晴帖)
- Namo Amitābha by HongYi (南无阿弥陀佛--弘一法师)
- Poem of Fragrance (秾芳诗帖)
- Confucius Passed Away (仲尼梦奠帖)
- Ode to Qin (琴赋)
- Heart Sutra (心经) 5.0 06/25/2020 "Share" feature removed.

Now, the app contains 7 handscrolls:
- LanTing (兰亭集序)
- Basic Strokes (基本笔画--楷书四大家)
- Timely Clearing After Snowfall (快雪时晴帖)
- Namo Amitābha by HongYi (南无阿弥陀佛--弘一法师)
- Poem of Fragrance (秾芳诗帖)
- Confucius Passed Away (仲尼梦奠帖)
- Ode to Qin (琴赋) 4.2.3 04/30/2020 Support for iOS13: Dark Mode and Transition Animations

Now, the app contains 7 handscrolls:
- LanTing (兰亭集序)
- Basic Strokes (基本笔画--楷书四大家)
- Timely Clearing After Snowfall (快雪时晴帖)
- Namo Amitābha by HongYi (南无阿弥陀佛--弘一法师)
- Poem of Fragrance (秾芳诗帖)
- Confucius Passed Away (仲尼梦奠帖)
- Ode to Qin (琴赋) 4.2.2 10/23/2019 1. New handscroll: Ode to Qin
2. New master pieces: Top 10 Running Scripts of Calligraphy

Now, the app contains 7 handscrolls:
- LanTing (兰亭集序)
- Basic Strokes (基本笔画--楷书四大家)
- Timely Clearing After Snowfall (快雪时晴帖)
- Namo Amitābha by HongYi (南无阿弥陀佛--弘一法师)
- Poem of Fragrance (秾芳诗帖)
- Confucius Passed Away (仲尼梦奠帖)
- Ode to Qin (琴赋) 4.2 06/05/2019 1. New handscroll: Basic Strokes
2. New feature: Gallery

Now, the app contains 6 handscrolls:
- LanTing (兰亭集序)
- Basic Strokes (基本笔画--楷书四大家)
- Timely Clearing After Snowfall (快雪时晴帖)
- Namo Amitābha by HongYi (南无阿弥陀佛--弘一法师)
- Poem of Fragrance (秾芳诗帖)
- Confucius Passed Away (仲尼梦奠帖) 4.1 03/05/2018 1. New handscroll: Confucius Passed Away (仲尼梦奠帖)
2. Turn on "Force Chinese" to activate Live Commenting (Danmaku), and learn more about the strokes and structure of each glyph.

Now, the app contains 5 handscrolls:
- LanTing (兰亭集序)
- Timely Clearing After Snowfall (快雪时晴帖)
- Namo Amitābha by HongYi (南无阿弥陀佛 弘一法师书)
- Poem of Fragrance (秾芳诗帖)
- Confucius Passed Away (仲尼梦奠帖) 4.0 01/09/2018 Updated for iPhone X !
1. New handscroll in Slender Gold: 秾芳诗
2. Improved UI 3.3 11/12/2017 New calligraphy master piece: Namo Amitābha by HongYi 3.2 10/30/2016 New calligraphy work: Timely Clearing After Snowfall. Enjoy it! 3.1 06/16/2016 New calligraphy work: Timely Clearing After Snowfall. Enjoy it! 3.0 06/06/2016 fix bugs in version 2.4 2.5 06/27/2015 The 'Game Center' crashes this version. Please disable 'Game Center' when using this version, or wait for the next version with the fix. Thanks.

unlock 20 glyphs 2.4 06/23/2015 1. Fix an issue with IAP purchasing
2. Unlock 20 new glyphs 2.3 01/30/2015 NOTE: the IAP not saving issue will be fixed in 2 weeks. Sorry for the inconvenience.

1. Animating demo: repeat current word
2. Practicing glyph: Same/Similar glyph reference
3. Sharing
4. Game Center
5. 36 glyphs unlocked 2.2 10/23/2014 unlock 16 new glyphs 2.1 03/07/2014 1. IAP for full LanTing scroll
2. New glyphs unlocked
3. New feature: free drawing, stroke indicator, etc... 2.0 11/01/2013 APP Updates:
1. Add 23 new glyphs
2. Improved UI & UE 1.3 05/12/2013 Feature updates:
1. iPhone5 and iOS6 support
2. Calligraphy Show has been made as a feature rather than a launching image
3. Video tutorial

User Interface related updates:
1. Background images
2. Chinese writing brush as demo tool
3. More ink colors

User Experience related updates:
1. Statistic information
2. Chinese character explanation
3. Undo button [as requested by user feedback]
4. Demo tool can show how to spell the whole Chinese character [as requested by user feedback]

PS: with the update of Apple app development kits, this app no longer support some old iOS versions and devices. Sorry for that. 1.2 11/28/2012