NeoShoDo

NeoShoDo helps you practice handwriting one stroke at a time.

Pick a style and a handwriting font, and NeoShoDo teaches that font's own letters. Watch a quick demo of how each letter is written, then trace it yourself. NeoShoDo checks every stroke for shape and direction, so you learn correct letter formation, not just the shape.

EIGHTEEN FONTS, THREE STYLES

• Print: school handwriting print and literacy faces with single-story a and g
• Cursive: joined cursive, from traditional looped school cursive to flowing scripts
• Calligraphy: pointed-pen copperplate and broad-nib hands, from uncial to fraktur

Two fonts in every style are free: Edu NSW ACT Foundation and Andika, Sacramento and Playwrite US Trad, Pinyon Script and Uncial Antiqua. More print and cursive fonts come in optional one-time packs.

Best with a stylus. A finger can trace a shape, but grip and pen control only come from holding something — and those are what carry over to writing on paper. An Apple Pencil on iPad comes closest to pen on paper. A finger works fine, and nothing here is locked behind hardware.

• Watch-then-trace: a guided demo shows each font's stroke order, with numbered start and end points and an animated hint line
• Capitals follow traditional cursive stroke order
• Master each letter with a five-in-a-row drill before moving on
• Words and famous sentences on ruled paper; each word starts with a guided copy, and in a joined font you write it in one stroke
• Choose your paper: three-line, two-line, four-line, slant or single
• Optional script packs: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Cyrillic and Arabic, each with its own words and sentences
• Full Apple Pencil support with Apple's native tools — pen, pencil, marker, crayon, colors, and an eraser
• Light, dark, sepia, and automatic themes
• Your progress syncs across your devices when you sign in

Try it free with no account, then sign in with Apple or Google to save your progress. Practice penmanship, one stroke at a time.