Fontise - Font Maker Keyboard Reviews

by Claireslover16

Ok so l just now got Fontise! I saw it on TikTok so l thought yea lets get it. The second l get it l go thru all of the “ok’s” and then l go and it starts doing stuff l said no to! Like the subscription and stuff! And then l go to the “C” and then it froze! I got out and got back in and l had to redo it! I pushed the save button but it didnt work! I told one of my friends to see if it works for them bc l was just thinking “Well maybe mine is just glitching” No! Theirs messed up too! They got all the way to the end and then it froze! She couldnt get it to save or anything! Fontise is almost forcing u to do stuff which is NOT ok!!!!! I have had Fontise for like a minute now and that app is down the drain for me!!!!

NOT RECOMMENDED!!!!!!
Idk if it has a bug or what but the fact that other reviews say the same thing gets on my nerves! I hope the creator sees this bc if they dont get it fixed nobody will want to buy it! Now l am going to undo the subscription that it did on its own and that app will never be back on my phone again! Even if it gets fixed it wont be!
My friends: ok wait so l have to pay for my OWN handwriting!!??? THIS IS AWFUL! I shouldnt have to sit there tracing all this stuff whenever it turns out l just get to look at it! I AM NOT PAYING 2$ FOR MY OWN HANDWRITING! That is ridiculous!!!!!!! This is an awful app! It really truly is!
Ps CREATOR UR APP IS AWFUL

by Igraine57

I got Fontise because I was bored and it looked like it would be fun. I wanted to show it off to people and tell others to get it. But after I got it it went horrible. When I first went into Fontise I tapped the button to make a new font and when I tried writing the letter Fontise started to glitch. This happened for all of the letters and symbols. I’m not sure if it was just my phone or Fontise . After I finished making my font Fontise glitched and the screen turned black. Then my phone tired off for a long time. I would say for about five or ten minutes. Then when my phone turned back on I went back onto Fontise and it deleted my font. Also while this was happening I was on my phone for about five minutes making the font and my phone went down 30%. So I would not recommend getting Fontise!

by Airsatotbs

What a waste of time. The tracking is horrible— the lines never followed the entire length of what I drew, and half the time it just left a dot that didn’t register as an actual dot. It doesn’t include characters like ^ . Not to mention the slant on the reference letters kept throwing off my hand writing. When I had to go back and fix a mistake after finishing, instead of letting me click on individual letters I had to click the ‘x’ and scroll alllllllllll the way back to the beginning. And the creme de la crap, the piece de resistance, the infuriating cherry on top of the disappointment cake: YOU CAN’T EVEN USE THE FONT WITHOUT PAYING FOR IT! You can add it to your keyboard, or make a... postcard? Just a barebones image with some text on it? This was a waste of time and I implore you to not use Fontise. Anyone, if anyone finds this, heed my warning. Turn back, before it’s too late.

by TiredApple_

First of all, The lack of tools is limiting my creativity. The tools we are given to be able to come up with a new font is basically only a pen and an eraser. Second, It didn’t even get the letters right! Every time I try to type with it I’m always guessing which letter is which and I am not about to spend half an hour trying to decipher which is which. And lastly, when I try to use the font I made the keyboard stake up for then half of the screen so I can’t see anything I’m typing. I don’t recommend this so please look for another font app.

by Asdfgjbdethfdu

I hate Fontise, It glitches so much for me it froze when I went to the letter f and I was about to allow full access until it said it will be able to look at all my data and texts even location, I’m not sure if it’s the same with other people this is just my experience. You do have to spend money on Fontise tho but my mom would not allow it. It’s a wast of your time it glitches TO MUCH. I love fonts but it is hard to find one for free. I don’t care if dev reply’s just making sure you know Fontise is a wast of time. It takes so long just to get your font downloaded I had to restart the font process because I was dumb and didn’t read reviews. Because you have to allow all access before you write the font,Like I said before don't download Fontise it’s a waste of time. 😡

by Baby Cami

I’m usually too lazy to ever write reviews, but Fontise is so bad I felt a need to warn others. First off, Fontise glitches REALLY bad. A lot of the time when you draw a letter it doesn’t process and you have to draw the same letter 20 times for it to process, and hope you like how it came out. Second, it only gives you one “brush” to use, which means your letters come out shaky and you can’t get a variety of fonts. The part that made me most upset was that after all that, you need to pay around $2 a month to download the font. You can download to iMessages for free, but it ends up looking as if you were sending an image to someone, just the image is your message with your font.

In short: don’t even bother with this terrible app and look elsewhere.

by AnyeliB

In the beginning Fontise is good, there could be a little more brushes but it's okay, it freezes a little too which can get a little annoying but if you get over it, it's fine. In my opinion the real problem is when you finish making the letters, you have to pay 1.99$ for your own handwriting? I don't get that. And when I did pay it, it said "Purchase Failed" so I check my wallet and it still took my 2 dollars? And I tried restoring the payment but nothing worked. I'm not sure if this is a glitch but it really isn't fair for the people who actually wanna create their own font only to have to pay for it, and when you do pay for it, it takes your money w/o giving you what you bought. Creator please fix this.

by BubbaTahu

The general layout and usage is okay. It would be nice to have some more brushes and options but that’s fine. I have two major beefs with Fontise. #1: Once you export your font that’s it you are done. There is no going back to edit and re-export. #2: I just spent a chunk of time making a font only to have it look vastly different once I exported it... ugh very annoying. Side frustration you can’t save and come back later, it’ll prompt you that you will lose your work (goes back to not being able to edit once exported I’m guessing).... so yeah if you want to make a quick font for a one time deal or something sure it’s fine, but not the way to go for professional use at all.

by Bory Nors

Saw this on TikTok thought it’d be fun but like it doesnt rlly work? it keeps on showing me a white box with the words I typed out & I can’t submit/send it. Plus, it takes some time to get everything grammatically correct since there’s so autocorrect. Also when u put ur finger on a letter on the keyboard it has the most ugliest frame thing but that doesn’t rlly matter. If I could just figure out how it works that would be great but overall I don’t think Fontise is rlly worth it bc they collect the info u type out so it could be potentially dangerous 🤐don’t know how this got #1 on Photos & Videos 🤨like it’s even above YT so yea

by VocalSlither

I just got Fontise today, and I love it so much! But there is a humongous problem. (I may be exaggerating.) Anyway, I have a font called Tiny Dancer (the font is literally SO tiny) and if I type the word ‘basketball’ it looks like this: ‘bas ketball’. It’s terrible. All of my k’s are separated from the beginning of the word. And same thing with my font ‘Big House’ ( it is also SUPER big) and all of my d’s are separated from the beginning of the word like this: ‘ sa d dle.’ I hate it. I do only have three fonts and I am very 😢. But overall I love Fontise . And there is another problem I have with Fontise. I think it is very unique to have the buyers swipe to make their next a letter, it’s no promplen for me. ( Since I am right handed) but sometimes I swipe wrong and I press the arrow to go to the menu of Fontise . And I lose all of my work! I was almost to the end of all the symbols and I just lost it all. Thank you all for reading this review and ,creator, please do check these things to make sure you had programmed it correctly! Bye!

by Beavis And Butt Head Fan

I thought it was cool to design my own fonts.
I had some fun with Fontise and enjoyed it considering it’s the first font app I’ve used. I’d take a star off though if I could, now that I think about it.
Fontise doesn’t show the right letters you type in most of the time. I don’t know if it’s glitchy. I made all the fonts correctly. It deserves only 2 stars in my opinion. If other people like if that’s good. Could you improve it though so we know what letter we’re typing?

by Lynxad00

This was fun to use, and I liked that you really could customize everything, but just a warning:

MAKE SURE you allow all access for Fontise BEFORE you start making the font. If you leave Fontise before you've downloaded your font (which you can only do after you've made all 96 characters), ALL YOUR PROGRESS WILL BE LOST. Also, BE WILLING TO PAY for your font. It's a couple dollars a month if you want to have it, or from what I can tell, you can download it for free as long as you give it total access before you start.

All in all, it's pretty fun, but really annoying that you can't save your progress, and that it doesn't tell you you have to give it access or pay before you start. I lost my font twice because of these things, so I just wanted to give you a warning.

by Layla...justme On Tiktok

Basically I was filming and it froze at E and it also froze at D And even at C and like I couldn’t write anything even in so like I went back on like Fontise Store and I open Fontise again and it worked but I didn’t save my things so if you could fix this it’s a five star so yeah the only thing that bothered me was that I couldn’t finish it and I was going to show my viewers me making a font so yeah other than that it’s just a five star I would like if you would fix it because it’s all the other reviews that it was for them to so if you could fix this bug that would like mean a lot to me and I think other people that play this game so yeah I’m playing on mobile

by Nunnya-B

Fontise looks cool and fun, and I love fonts and stuff! To create a font you have to write every mark that you would need on a keyboard. This takes a little bit of time especially if you want to make sure it's your best lettering. To get back to the main screen you swipe from the left side of the keyboard. Well, I had spent about 10 min. Creating my font and had gotten to almost the end of 96 letters and since I'm left handed and I'm working on the left side of the screen. While I was working it swiped to the main screen and I lost EVERYTHING! I tried two more times without ever getting to finish before it swiped out and I lost everything! So after wasting a good 45 min I finally quit. LAME!

by I Want No Wifi To Listen To It

I love that you can actually send people texts without buying it, but I don’t love how it looks, I wish I could text people with my handwriting and not have to have it look like an image. I think it’s a good idea to make money but I think that paying monthly is too much. Maybe like $5 to write and maybe I’d buy it but monthly is too much. I also don’t think you ever stop paying until you don’t want to, like there’s no end to the money that your spending it’s just keeps adding up. If I used this for 10 years I’d be like $240 it’s already $24 a year which I think is too much for a font, thank you!

by None Stop Playing

I was making a thing I spent a lot of time on when I finished it I was thinking of a name for it and then it kicked me out I went to go look and it wasn’t saved all my progress was gone and I couldn’t go back everything I did was gone and I couldn’t finish it and do it in time so now all it was gone and I couldn’t get it back I love that I’ve already made one but the other one I tried to made it kicked me out and I lost all of it I would love if you could fix that so wouldn’t kick you out when you made another one because I root cause I spent a lot of time on that and I would really like still 🅸🅵 🆈🅾︎🆄 🅵🅸🆇 🅸🆃 🆃🅷🅰︎🅽🅺 🆈🅾︎🆄

by JustBrooklee

I like Fontise although I wish I could go back and edit certain letters. I made some of my letters smaller than the rest unknowingly until I used the font. I don’t want to have to go back through and do it all over again just to fix the few letters with issues. please add editing to the font manager!

by Maggie R. Chase Is Kind

I got Fontise and I was really excited! I made my font and when I tried it I touched H and I popped up and it’s the same with all of my letters. I powered off my iPad to and it still wouldn’t work i’m not sure if anyone else is having this problem but I having it for some reason. I’m not sure if it’s just the thing with iPads. No one else seems to be having this problem.

by Natanimal

I got Fontise today and while it overall is a good app. One problem though. MAKE IT SO WE CAN ZOOM IN!!!!!! After getting Fontise I thought it would be cool to make a character for each of the letters. So I went off on my drawing app drawing letters with cute characters to go with. When I went back on Fontise I created a new font, but I couldn’t zoom in enough to draw the characters properly. This was very frustrating and I spent a lot of time on my characters for them to go to waste. Please add this feature.

by Hastohave

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, I figured out the Minecraft language and so I made a font for it to confuse my friends but when I tried to use it after adding it on keyboard on settings it wouldn’t work, I don’t know what to do, I allowed full access, I added it on keyboard, but when I tried it out it didn’t work I’m not sure what to do

by SauceBoss227

I’ve been looking for a program that i can use to design some fonts for a sci if animation, and this seemed like a good pick.

It has all of the characters, capital and non capital, it has most of the symbols you would want to have, and in the end it allows you to pretty much create what you want to create.

Now what i dislike about Fontise. You spend a good chunk of time designing your font when after, and only after, they tell you that you need to pay a subscription fee in order to download the font.

Now, I would be happy to pay a subscription, or buy an app, even if it’s a little large of an amount, however I refuse to work with anything that lets me put all of this work and time into some project, only to lock it behind a paywall that they never told you about.

by Joesaurus7

Fontise is great for those who can draw well on a small screen and freehand everything, but for those of us who can’t, we’re just stuck. You can draw straight lines, but if those lines are in the wrong place you’re just out of luck. I wish you could select and move already drawn elements. I also wish you could just “select default”, for lack of a better term, on characters you don’t want to draw and want to leave as normal. All in all, good for the freehanders, not so good for everyone else.

by AdGnoscere

Fonty is free, as is Font Forge, and they actually have better auto-kerning then Fontise has (the distance between letters). I don’t mind paying for a premium product but this is not premium nor the product. Put your time into making the perfect font, you have to fill out every character before you continue, why? Oh because we want you to rent it from us for a monthly charge and you wouldn’t want to rent it if you hadn’t put the maximum time and energy into it. You’re the product.

by Gracie 1213

when i made my font which took a long time and was rlly hard, i saved it and made SURE that it had full access i went on to my messages and clicked the little globe thing and selected this app, and it didn’t do anything. so i trued clicking the apps button and clicking Fontise and i had to type it from there. A, it’s really small i couldn’t really read it. B, it was taking to much time. if it worked for you great but for all of the other ppl that it didn’t work for just delete Fontise, all in all just don’t get Fontise it’s pointless.

by Middle-aged Mouseketeer

I’ve had Fontise for a while - made several fonts - and it was fun (although odd glitches and spacing between letters make it unusable for anything serious)
I decided to try to make a really careful rendering of a custom alphabet and was happy with the result, but found that with the recent update, you need to subscribe to be able to use it 😕. I thought, “well, maybe they ramped it up a bit now that they’re charging” - and I was willing to pay.
Then I looked at the sample.
It is still not worth any money due to the odd spacing issues.
I’ll be looking for something else.

by Simon_the_katt

It really only lets you type your font onto an image and you have to send that image to people instead. The keyboard they give you to type with when using the font doesn’t work all that well either. I was really excited to use Fontise and I spent a lot of time designing my font with the very limited tools provided, and I can’t really use it the way I thought I could. I don’t recommend Fontise for texting on anything besides iMessage unless you want to pay money for the feature. I also wish there was a way for me to edit a font I have already made

by 💖Pinkglittagal💖

So I use a stylus for digital writing or artwork. But Fontise hardly accepts my stylus strokes. Maybe if I’m lucky? But even if I use my finger, it’s poor lining and sensitivity. And it doesn’t accept most of my lines. I’ll try to drag out a line? It leaves a dot. I press the back arrow to erase the dot. Nope, the dot stays, and the line I finally managed to create is gone and cannot return. There’s also no zoom. On an iPad mini with drawing apps allowing you to zoom in on canvases, this is disappointing. Every time I got to zoom in, I can’t and stray marks get everywhere. Boo.

by ButterflyKisses73

It’s fun to design different fonts but then you need to buy and not just one time fee...monthly! Spacing of the letters is off. Some are too far apart. Even the line spacing is too big. I bought it just for a month to see and it said it was successful but immediately after an error in purchase. Nothing changed in Fontise after the purchase. It still was asking to purchase. It happened twice so Now I’m afraid I’ll get charged twice. Fixing the issues and maybe adding calligraphy pen it might be worth it as a one time purchase.

by Dragylaya11_1

I keep messing up and making my lowercase Os too big and they look weird, as well as make my Is separate from the beginning of the word. A good example would be “K ite”. I wish there was a way to edit pre existing fonts. It also wouldn’t let me use the font no matter how many times I gave Fontise access and switched to the font on my keyboard, it still didn’t work. I’m not sure if it’s just a me problem but I don’t know what to do about it.