Comparison

Color Text Bubbles on iMessage vs Custom Fonts°

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Color Text Bubbles on iMessage

Personalize your iMessage conversations by changing chat bubble colors, fonts, and font sizes. Create custom text stickers to express yourself visually within chats.

Highlights
  • Customize chat bubble color
  • Change font style
  • Adjust font size
  • Create text stickers
  • Drag stickers anywhere on screen
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It's finally here! You can now customize your chat bubble color, font, font color and font size too! In addition, Color Text Bubbles also makes stickers out of your favorite texts so you can drag them anywhere on the screen! Great way to comment!!!

About

Custom Fonts°

Enhance your messages and social media posts with a wide variety of custom fonts, emojis, symbols, and kaomojis. This keyboard app allows you to personalize your typing experience across all applications, ensuring your content stands out and your privacy is protected.

Highlights
  • 50+ custom fonts
  • 3600+ emojis
  • 2500+ symbols
  • 500+ kaomojis
  • Paste keyboard with saved quotes
  • Customizable keyboard themes
  • Offline functionality
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Full-featured keyboard for ALL apps with 50+ fonts, 3600+ Emojis, 2500+ Symbols, 500+ Kaomojis and Paste keyboard. #1 app for social networks & messaging apps. Impress your friends & increase your followers with beautiful writings. Your social media accounts will be outstanding! Fonts Keyboard is a keyboard that lets you choose between tons of custom fonts/emojis/symbols/kaomojis that you can use in every app, since it's a keyboard. Your friends & followers will receive awesome messages from you. With Fonts Keyboard, enjoy: • cool custom fonts • cool emoji's • cool symbols • cool facemoji's (kaomojis) • your own keyboard that you can compose yourself with your favorites emojis/facemojis/symbols • a paste keyboard with your favorites quotes to send instantly, or even spam your friends ;-) • the standard iOS appearance or your customized keyboard theme • continuous updates that bring new fonts & functionalities It works with all apps, including of course: • TikTok • Instagram • Snapchat • Messages (iMessage) • Facebook • WhatsApp • Messenger • Signal • Telegram • ... The keyboard can be customized with many settings like automatic capitalization, keyboard click sound, ... The keyboard appearance can be the iOS standard (light & dark mode) or your own look (with 50000+ color combinations.) The fonts list can be customized so that you can access your favorites fonts instantly. Fonts Keyboard is the only keyboard app that does not collect any data. It works offline. Your privacy matters and is safe with Fonts Keyboard! Another unique feature in Fonts Keyboard: the keyboard does NOT ask permission for "Full Access" authorization and therefore can NOT know what you type. 100% secure. I hope you enjoy the app シ Jonathan - --------- The terms of use & privacy policy can be found here: https://fkeyboard.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Color Text Bubbles on iMessage4 screens
Custom Fonts°4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Custom Fonts° at 89% against Color Text Bubbles on iMessage's 14%. Custom Fonts° also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). Color Text Bubbles on iMessage's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Color Text Bubbles on iMessage sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Custom Fonts° sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Custom Fonts° holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Custom Fonts° has 12K ratings behind it against 1.3K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Color Text Bubbles on iMessage's written reviews are positive against 89% of Custom Fonts°'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Color Text Bubbles on iMessage ships an update every 6 months, Custom Fonts° every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Color Text Bubbles on iMessage versus Custom Fonts°: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColor Text Bubbles on iMessageCustom Fonts°
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.2 (1.3K ratings)4.6 (12K ratings) — better
Positive reviews13.9% of reviews88.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.3K12K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppgrammers LLCiSolid apps

Customer experience

Color Text Bubbles on iMessage

All ratings1,266 ratings
Positive28.5%
Neutral5.0%
Negative66.5%
Written reviews288 reviews
Positive13.9%
Neutral5.2%
Negative80.9%

Custom Fonts°

All ratings11,532 ratings
Positive89.0%
Neutral6.1%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews2,910 reviews
Positive88.5%
Neutral6.7%
Negative4.8%

User reviews

Color Text Bubbles on iMessage

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Customizable text bubbles
  • 👍 Fun way to text
  • 💡 Adds some pizazz to iMessages

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • 🔒 Difficult to uninstall
  • 💰 Paywall for most features
  • 📵 Ads interrupt usage
  • 🚫 Doesn't work as advertised

Custom Fonts°

From 12K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Lots of free fonts
  • 👍 Easy to set up and use
  • ☺️ Fun and creative fonts
  • 💡 Customizable keyboard
  • 🎨 Wide variety of symbols and emojis

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Many premium fonts locked behind paywall
  • 🐛 Occasional freezing and typing issues
  • 🤔 Annoying prompts to leave reviews for more fonts
  • ⚠️ Limited font options without paying

Bugs and requests

Color Text Bubbles on iMessage

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Text bubbles display incorrectly
  • Customization options disappear after use
  • App not visible on home screen

Requested features

3 requests
  • More free color/font options
  • Ability to edit past messages
  • Seamless integration with iMessage

Custom Fonts°

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Keyboard freezes when switching between fonts
  • Fonts not working in certain apps like Roblox
  • Inconsistent font rendering on different devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free font options
  • Improved spell check and autocorrect
  • Ability to sync custom fonts across devices
  • Customizable keyboard themes

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Color Text Bubbles on iMessage

One-time1
  • Upgrade to Pro!$19.99
9 purchases

Custom Fonts°

Subscriptions3
  • Fonts$4.997 Days
  • Fonts$8.991 Month
  • Fonts3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time6
  • 1 Small Thank You$5.99
  • 1 Medium Thank You$9.99
  • 1 Big Thank You$19.99
Show 3 more
  • Autumn Offer$29.99
  • Fonts$39.99
  • 1 Huge Thank You$39.99

Questions

Is Color Text Bubbles on iMessage free?
Color Text Bubbles on iMessage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Custom Fonts° free?
Custom Fonts° is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Color Text Bubbles on iMessage or Custom Fonts°?
Custom Fonts° is rated higher. Color Text Bubbles on iMessage averages 2.2 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Custom Fonts° averages 4.6 from 12K ratings.
Do Color Text Bubbles on iMessage or Custom Fonts° have ads?
Neither Color Text Bubbles on iMessage nor Custom Fonts° shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Color Text Bubbles on iMessage or Custom Fonts°?
Color Text Bubbles on iMessage ships an update every 6 months, and Custom Fonts° every 2 months. Most recently, Color Text Bubbles on iMessage was updated on November 6, 2026 and Custom Fonts° on November 11, 2026.

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