Fontessa is a keyboard. Not a copy-and-paste app you have to leave and come back to — a real keyboard you switch to with the globe key, type on, and stay in.
Pick a style once and everything you type comes out in it: Messages, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, a bio, a search bar. No switching apps, no clipboard, no pasting.
WHAT YOU GET
• 540 text styles — bold, italic, cursive, small caps, outlined, spaced, struck through, and hundreds of decorated ones
• 124 keyboard themes — colours, gradients, and your own photos behind the keys
• 818 symbols, 479 kaomoji and 74 pieces of text art, tap to copy
• A full emoji panel in the keyboard, with search and skin tones
• Snippets: save a name, a bio or a reply once, in any style, and put it in from the keyboard with a tap
• Bio ideas for Instagram and Threads, and on iPhones with Apple Intelligence, bios written for you from a few words, on the device
• Favourites and recents, so the styles you actually use stay at the top
• A theme editor for making your own
Every style is ordinary Unicode. Nothing is an image, and nothing needs the other app to add support for it — your message stays readable wherever it lands.
THE KEYBOARD CANNOT PHONE HOME
Most font keyboards ask for Full Access and give you a privacy policy full of maybes. Here is the specific promise instead:
The keyboard extension contains no networking code. Not disabled, not switched off behind a setting — absent from the built extension, with an automated check that fails our release if any is added. Your keystrokes are transformed on your device, character by character, and forgotten.
Full Access is optional. iOS asks for it so the keyboard can read the theme and layout you chose in the app. Leave it off and the keyboard still types.
FREE, AND WHAT PRO ADDS
The free version is a real keyboard, not a trial: 81 styles and 22 themes, no time limit. It shows ads.
Fontessa Pro unlocks all 540 styles and all 124 themes and removes the ads. Monthly, yearly, or a one-off lifetime purchase — the lifetime one is a single payment with no subscription and nothing to cancel.
Symbols, kaomoji and text art are free for everyone, Pro or not.
SETTING IT UP
iOS makes you add a keyboard by hand. The app walks you through it: Settings › General › Keyboard › Keyboards › Fontessa, then the globe key while you type.
Requires iOS 26.
Terms of use: https://fontessa-7fb09.web.app/terms
Privacy policy: https://fontessa-7fb09.web.app/privacy
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