Phonto - Text on Photos Reviews

by Knnthlw

It would be nice if the text would text wrap as you resize the text box. It’s kind of annoying to type text, then the message is cut off and you have to press enter to add line breaks.

But overall, I love Phonto! What I like about Phonto is how easy it is to design all kinds of ideas. I’ve quickly created mock up ideas of book cover pages, ebook covers, encouraging phrases with warm background colors, telling stories with emojis, creating funny memes, and a whole lot more. With saying all that, it would be nice to load an image or screenshot into this app from Photos app, or right after taking a screenshot. Currently, after saving the photo or screenshot, I have to open the this app app to load the photo or screenshot. Other than that, Phonto is irreplaceable!

by Lsilv5

Edit:
I've been using this app for months & I love all of the features - except for the advertisements. Video ads will automatically play when I'm in the middle of an action or design. Getting rid of these ads would be ideal. They make the editing process exhausting & annoying. I would chose a premium option.
Other than that, I learned that you can INPUT NEW FONTS after downloading them to your phone! Amazing...!!!! Done wonders for my personalization with my produced content.

My (previous) first review: All I do is write text over photos and this app makes that very quick and straight to the point. Love the editing options. Thanks this app.

by Justaguywhousesapp

I absolutely love this app and I think that without it, I’d never have started making niche memes and stuff like that, and Phonto makes the creation of such things exponentially more simple then on other software. I only have one complaint, and that complaint is enough to warrant 4 stars instead of 5. You can not save your this app projects if you close Phonto . Please, for the love of god, take inspiration from other photo editing software programs, and allow your users to close the project they are currently working on and have the ability to return to Phonto later and pick up where they left off on the project they were editing. I speak on behalf of every person who owns your app when I say that it is so frustrating to have your day’s work systematically deleted just because you can’t dedicate multiple hours to one editing project. Give us the option to put it down and pick it back up in the same spot, or none of your users will feel motivated to pick up Phonto anymore.

by Cmplxbeats

I love Phonto!! ❤️ I’ve been having it for years now and I use it almost daily to try out new ideas I get when I don’t have photoshop or illustrator in front of me. I love importing fonts from safari and using the tools to manipulate the characters.

I wish I could give Phonto 5 stars, just one thing that would make my process much faster: A grid. (Snap grid of you want to spoil us.) I use the background grid religiously but often gets difficult to ‘eye it out’ the more you reach the center of the screen. I’m sure many others would be interested, if not already have suggested. But with its little to nothing, minor flaws, I love it. I’m glad I stumbled across this one many years ago. I have this on both my iPhones and my iPad Pro. I also use Vonto! 😁 Great work to everyone involved.

P.S: If you guys REALLY want to spoil us, Ad a feature where users can turn layers on/off, and export transparent images (.png)

by Ytkubhbbjjbrk

There needs to be the ability to scale the bounds of a text box. If there already is let me know but I’ve never seen it. Because if it’s a big paragraph, you have to hit enter for each line so if you need to edit the paragraph or change the font then you have to go through and enter for each line all over again which is really not user friendly. But other than that it is good and I have used it for many years now. Another thing is maybe the grids on the sides could be numbered both horizontally and vertically because sometimes you have to count if you’re working with several smaller text boxes and want them to be proportional and symmetrical.

by DrKyashi

I rarely write reviews (unless incessantly asked by those pop-ups in certain 'thirsty' apps😒). But this app has been a game-changer for me! If you are looking for a mini, but fully loaded graphics program to edit photos and images, create logos and avatars, for promoting or marketing, or just for fun — Phonto is a workhorse!🤩 To be fair, the interface can be clunky, but that's less by design and attributed more to the user.😉 Perhaps a readily available quick tutorial would be beneficial in explaining each of the select functions, especially the "Style" option which has SO many additional features under the 'sub' "Color" and 'sub' "Style" functions! It took a while to find and explore all of the features, but completely worth it. 🏆BONUS: I recall paying a ONE-time nominal fee to remove adds and unlock additional features. And it's STAYED that way! Again, unlike some other apps who only seem to thrive on continually charging more and more for "in-app" features/purchases. Thanks, this app! You created a stellar app and you're doing an excellent job!🏅

by K. Warrior

To be fair, perhaps there’s dozens of apps to write over pictures that are decent, but this one has offered the most versatility & user friendly experience, short of Photoshop on my desktop or laptop (I’m a graphic designer).

I use this just to make quick quotes over photos to promote my podcast IG page and its interface makes it easy, w/ plenty of style choices, filled with more than enough fonts, and able to darken or mask photos to make text stand out (on iPhone). Perfect tool. I don’t write reviews often, but must give credit where it’s due. Great job on creative efficiency for FREE.

by Peteybot

I love this app so much. I have and will recommend this to friends until i run out of breath. For mobile editing, this app is literally a top 3 app. Like it's literally essential for photo editing. Anyway, back to business. Don't let my five stars fool you, there ARE things to be done, but regardless Phonto is unmatched. I have one request and one bug fix to discuss. We'll start with the bug. Small bug but still worth fixing. When I am in the color pattern menu and I've decided on my pattern, when I click "Done" Phonto acts like I clicked the button next to it where it prompts a screen that asks me to choose between ombré or character-by-character patterns. In order to successfully leave the color pattern screen I have to click the edge of the screen, past the done button lol. Also, I would like to request something. It would be very very VERY helpful to insert a feature into Phonto where we can create folders for our fonts (fonts can be in multiple folders btw). It just helps a lot when you have a ton of fonts in your library. Thanks for reading! Much love. 💗

by Heavlighttt

I love Phonto and it has helped transform my business by making social posts easy to do on the go. It is intuitive to use and has lots of good features and fonts. I love that you can save projects and be able to come back to formats after I’m done with files. The way to work with layers to fix things afterward is so nice. The only thing I wish is that it had lock-to grids so I can always center my fonts. Please add this to an update! It’s difficult to center different layers of texts to all be properly aligned. Would you be able to add this feature? Thank you. Five stars regardless. Highly recommend to anyone, even just for fun.

by Rpmendez

For six years, this app has been my go-to app for adding text to images. There is *so much* that’s great about it!
• Text formatting such as font, color, shadow, and line and letter spacing is easy and intuitive and offers tremendous variety.
• Positioning, sizing and tilting blocks of text is smooth and easy.
• Adding and manipulating pictures and objects is easy.
• Importing new fonts is not too tricky—and it’s easy, once you know how.

Recommendations for the devs:
• Formatted style can be “paintbrushed” across text blocks easily (a plus!), but selected blocks all inherit the style of the oldest box; it’d be nice to be able to choose the parent.
• Please offer word-wrapping for text boxes in the main editor! I often go through a number of resizings throughout a project, and it’s not uncommon to need to manually adjust line breaks.
• Please offer a “save” function for fully editable templates or completed images —there are a number of things I do frequently enough that going through all the adjusting each time seems silly. I do appreciate that I can “restore previous image”, but often that’s not the thing I need to work with.

Thanks!

by Luka1234

I love Phonto, I use it every single day for creating and editing images for my small business.. There are some small issues and glitches that I’ve been dealing with lately, though— sometimes when I go to add text, it isn’t showing up (yes, color is a contrasting color, and the box where the text should be shows up, but there’s no text in it). Also— I upgraded and added features, and one feature had a thumbnail of text wrapping around a hand, with parts of the word erased— I cannot figure out how to do this, and I can’t find a tutorial... Help? I love Phonto and I want to keep using it and to keep suggesting it to friends, but these glitches are setting me back.. :(

by Meimei9876

In my opinion, Phonto is extremely good. Especially for editing videos etc. I use this and Vont to edit some of my videos. The only reason that some people don’t like Phonto is because they dont know how to use it. They think there is only a few fonts that you can use but that’s not true because you can go on free websites to download cute aesthetic fonts onto Phonto . Which to me, is extremely handy. Whats really good about Phonto is that, theres no limit to how much words you can put onto your pictures. And theres many ways you can decorate and customize your sentence and words.

by WhatsnewNoonoo

So Phonto is amazing... but there has been a problem that happened very recently. When I want to upload photo albums I can’t. Well it’s not that I can’t it’s just that when I go to settings ‘this app’ does not appear. So I can’t edit anymore or add texts to my photos. Please fix this or respond back, maybe it’s just my phone. Or maybe it’s because I uninstalled it and reinstalled it becauze I though that would work. You also cannot add photos on top of your other photos anymore OR... add items like a like button or a subscribe button.

This would be my review from the past if I had not experienced this problem:

OMG OMG INSTALL Phonto RIGHT NOW OR ELSE I WILL COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND INSTALL IT FOR YOU! IT’S AMAZING! YOU CAN DO MANY THINGS LIKE ADD TEXTS WITH SO MANY COOL FONTS AND ADD PHOTOS, IF YOU DONT’T HAVE PHOTOS YOU CAN USE PLAIN IMAGES! You can do many other things like add items!

I am still feeling like that but all I need is to fix these problems or solve them because I need it for my videos, you have been such a help so please fix this! Let me know if you can respond because I need it!

(Edit): thanks so much for fixing the bug!

by Miamimaya

First off I do wanna say I love Phonto and it’s been such a big help to me making the pictures and logos I need for my business, however there is a bug or something happening! Because now when I try to add a picture as a background instead of tapping anywhere on the screen to make a text it’s causing the background picture to move But when I remove the background I’m able to add text and all this other good stuff witch is kinda frustrating that I have to type out my text first and then add all of my photos can this be fixed or do I need a new app? I would hate to get rid of this app but if this keeps on I might have to find me another app please fix this thank you

by RAC💔

Phonto is great let me tell you why

1. Phonto isn’t like any other hard thumbnail app.

So this one is very easy to use it’s not hard it’s not complicated or nothing I found this video on google because I wanted to make thumbnails like Supermariologan he said download this app and everything. He taught us how to do it! At first I was like what Phonto is another bad thumbnail app it doesn’t work that’s because I didn’t know how to use he just said press add image and there you go all done super easy.

2. It’s easy to use.

It’s not hard for me but it can be hard for you if you don’t know how to use it it’s not like those other thumbnail apps this was this one app that was called thumbnail maker and it was garbage I would give it a D- it didn’t let me search up any thumbnails because I tried to create an it didn’t work well I tried to choose a picture but it wouldn’t zoom out because the picture was too big and the rest of the suggested thumbnails were not what I was looking for this app isn’t like that!

3. That’s pretty much it overall Phonto is excellent I’m glad I found that video it was a kid telling us how to do it and he was a smart kid! I’m glad Phonto exist.

by Zeniamusic

Literally the best app on the planet. I have been using it for quite some time and didn’t really realize how much I loved it, until I noticed it’s basically the only app I use for my marketing needs. If you’re a creative person you’ll be able to make MAGIC with Phonto. I use it for basically everything. It’s usability is seamless, no lag, no crashes, no complexities, just perfection. If you need help with creativity this might not be the best app, because you really have to start from scratch (WHICH IS WHAT I LOVE) and that is what is unusual but amazing about Phonto. Dear Developers: Don’t change it. Don’t go commercial. Please keep this clean like it is. Only thing I’d ADD is an automatic save feature for projects and the ability to cross edit with other users. But basically that’s it. It’s amazing. <3

by DMOGSLNJ

I’ve downloaded and tried more of these apps than I would care to admit, as I need them for professional level social media design. I’m always searching out for new or promising apps to help with graphic design. I thought this would be yet another crappy app that doesn’t do anything it advertised that it would.

IN THIS CASE, this app did a great job in Phonto! It does EXACTLY what it says it will do, and it does so without forcing you to pony up cash up front! In fact as far as I can tell, all core components of Phonto work for free (sure there are a few nice add-on’s available, but honestly, Phonto is powerful enough in the free version, and even with the add-on’s you won’t get raped on added costs! We are talking about $.99 cents here… or $2.99 at most… that’s it!)

Well done this app!

by Annakm133

thank u, thank u, THANK U for making Phonto so affordable, effortless, and so high quality! every font is so easy to download and use, with literally hundreds of thousands of fonts to choose from! when you use it, there are so so many possibilities and unique changes you can make to the text. it’s perfect - seriously hands down. i wouldn’t change a thing. not a ton of ads, barely any, actually. very professional, quick, and sooooooo user-friendly! not like any other app where certain and almost all the necessary features are locked; on this app you literally can do anything! i love Phonto to death, seriously. when you download the photo you added text to, if you zoom in, the font is SO HQ!! it literally makes me so happy. if i could rate it 6 stars, i would. absolutely recommend. this is a must have app for editors!!! (also no watermark is just the best thing ever)

by Mattstate

There’s a few things I would love to see in Phonto. Firstly the ability to save a draft of work!! I can’t tell you how many times I was multitasking, received a call or anything and I go back to Phonto and my work is gone. Of course we have restore previous state but that only works so well. If my phone dies then that’s gone. And if I save the work into a picture file the content is no longer movable. The second thing I would love to see is that when we start from a plain photo that the background be actually pure white and not almost there. What I mean is that the values begin at 250,250,250 which is almost there. But when I click on the white color box the values change to 255,255,255. If the values could start there for a white plain photo that’d be awesome!! Otherwise I love the ability to create in Phonto and all the fonts I have accumulated! Thank you!!

by HoW!

For years I used font candy, and I had the paid version, they then switched to a subscription basis and did not honor all the People who had paid for their app. And it was more than just a few dollars. It was close to $30/month! For a font app! I’ve tried so many different apps and finally came across this one. It was a little confusing to use at first but now that I have the hang of it, Phonto is WAY better than anything I have ever tried. I love that most of the features are free and they don’t make you pay to remove a watermark.... that was one of the big selling points for me. I hate when a company forces you to pay to remove a watermark. this app also provides some simple backgrounds to use so that you don’t have to look up “plain white background” like I used to all the time lol. Overall I would tell everyone to use Phonto because you can do some amazing and cool things. I feel like a graphic designer using this (even tho I know nothing about any of it)

by Jcfffff

I absolutely LOVE Phonto. I can’t get enough of it! It’s so much fun to use, and I’m like a kid in the candy store picking out fonts and plastering them over my photoshop projects. But as much as I love Phonto, there are just a few minor quibbles that, if fixed, will make this superb app even better. There are some new bugs that have appeared after the 13.2 update. As follows:

-Text suddenly disappears when adjusting the shadow backdrop. Please fix

-Save fonts to Cloud in case we have to delete Phonto . (I had to clean out my phone today, and lost ALL of my fonts. VERY aggravating).

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-Allow color gradations/blends on the stroke option. It will add more dimension to the main text gradient settings.

-Add a zoom option PLEASE. It’s hard to view and form small print without squinting our eyes.

-Implement a bezier curve option to curve/3D tools. Please find a way to allow users to create more intricate arches and twists. It would be easier than typing multiple letter boxes at different sizes for a "bump" look.

-Save files so we can return to edit them later.

-Color picker to automatically match text colors to pictures.

-Text fade option (vertical/horizontal/diagonal) and text distortion filters.

Nonetheless, Phonto rocks. Please fix the bugs and add some much-needed upgrades.

Thanks again!
-Joel, a very satisfied user

by Casaontherez

I love this app and recommended it to people all the time. It’s simple to use. I appreciate being able to put a border on fonts to make them more readable. I’ve bought a few of the add ons and they were worth it. I just discovered a few cool tricks like curving text. The only frustrating thing is that I can’t save my projects (or if I can, it’s not clear how). I have combed through Phonto trying to figure this out. I’d like to be able to revisit projects or make minor changes sometimes without having to recreate the whole thing.

by Must Rhyme

This is the one you're looking for! Want to simply add text to your images, have all the known fonts available, put multiple fonts in a variety of styles on one image and do it all completely free? I mean, for real free?? Then, like I said, this is the one you want!! One quick add when you go to save your work. I tried a bunch of different ones before I ran across this excellent app. Took me a couple of times before I learned all of the ways to use all the different features, but don't worry, you'll figure it it out.

by Babestaaaaaaaa

this app does what it needs to do as an app and more! I use this app for all of my insta editing that I need to do and it’s super simple and easy to use. It allows you to choose from a variety of fonts and also gives you the option to download preferred fonts from the web. You can layer pictures on top of one another and scale them in creative ways. There aren’t a lot of apps out there that do what they do and do it well. this app always comes in handy when I need it and allows me to be innovative with all my posts! Love Phonto!!!

by Good Game But Lots Of Bugs.

I love Phonto, it’s very useful to me when I need to edit photos on the fly. When I got a new iPhone XR however, anytime I try and add a photo I get stuck in the shape crop screen with no option to continue. I suspect the continue/select button is perhaps not able to fit on the screen since the screen size is different.

If this could be addressed soon I would be very happy since I’m not able to fully use Phonto right now because of this bug. Thank you

by Sgate631988

I really enjoy using Phonto but i believe it could use some great updates. I would like to see a tool to crop the background by color. Since i have to go use another app then come back to finish editing my project. Also another issue i run with this is when i download a image (png file) sometimes it adds a white background when it doesn’t suppose to. Other than this issues, Phonto is great and it’s free!! Thank you guys , i hope you guys look into this feedback.

by Tghdjdjdjdj

Okay so they say in the new update that they have “fixed the bugs” I was like “Finally!” so I go into the this app app and Phonto crashes 2 times! Not only that but it deletes everything I do! I’m thinking about deleting Phonto because this has honestly got on my nerves. Don’t download Phonto because it will just cause your iPhone to glitch IM WARNING YOU don’t download it! After I downloaded Phonto my iPhone had unexpected glitches that they hadn’t had before....and then I download this! I hope the creators or developers see this!

by EclipseSunandMoon

I like you can use many different fonts, but I want to download some more good ones to use but I have to go on a website that’s
restricted for me. So, I can’t go on the website to download the fonts. I would really like if you could add the fonts you can download to the fonts that are available, because it’s really frustrating because I tried to find a font someone used on their video that I liked, but then I found out you had to download it :(
(P.S the fonts available are also pretty good)