“DO NOT DOWNLOAD!! — You get SOOOO MANY ADS that you can’t even skip the part is that you have to buy it after all your wasted time.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 631 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.4 ★124,533 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
108 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Fontmaker is the first font maker keyboard app for iPhone to create your own font with handwriting and use it as a keyboard in iMessage, Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok, Facebook and more to chat with your friends!
Use your own handwriting to chat with your friends to make it feel personal and intimate.
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Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 1.1.10 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.1.10, updated 2026-09-01.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 159 distinct reviewers — 25.2% of the 631 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 3.99 to USD 87.99 — a 22x spread across 10 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 4
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall with no way past it
A paywall screen ships with no dismiss, skip or 'maybe later' affordance anywhere in the package, so the app's own text offers no way in without paying.
What we saw: Paywall with no way past it: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.8% of 631 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.8% of 631 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (4 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 631 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“More ads than a mobile game — This app has ads that play every 3 letters, which makes the process more slower than the time it takes to probably download GTA 6, and the fact that they do 2 ads at once is just crazy, go keep your money…”
“It’s cool but ads — I really like making my own font and u can do It for free you just have a lot of ads but I do recommend it if you don’t have a problem with them”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.1.10.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$3.99
Highest$87.99
Fontmaker + Weekly$4.99
Fontmaker+ Weekly$14.99
Fontmaker+ Weekly$6.99
Fontmaker+ Weekly 3$6.99
Fontmaker+ Weekly$18.99
Show 4 more purchases
Fontmaker+ Weekly$24.99
Fontmaker+ Weekly$3.99
Fontmaker+ Annually$39.99
Fontmaker+ Annually$87.99