Letterforms vs Font Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Letterforms
Design professional-quality variable fonts from sketches to screen. This app offers intuitive tools for crafting unique typefaces, with features like touch-first drawing, advanced typography controls, and seamless cross-device syncing. Export your creations as TTF/OTF files.
- Design variable fonts
- Touch-first vector drawing
- Professional typography tools
- Scan sketches to vector
- Cross-device syncing
- Export TTF/OTF files
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Make Your Own Creative Variable Fonts. From Sketch to Screen. Letterforms is a professional font design app for iOS and Mac. Craft unique variable fonts from the ground up with a precise and intuitive set of tools. Key Features: True Font Creation: Design, interpolate, and export professional-quality variable fonts as TTF/OTF files. Touch-First Design: A vector drawing tool built for your fingers. Edit glyphs with precision on any device. Professional Typography Tools: Fine-tune kerning, font metrics, guides, composite glyphs, and anchors. Scan to Vector: Turn your paper sketches into editable, refined vector paths in seconds. Seamless Workflow: Sync projects across your Apple devices. Copy and paste paths between Letterforms and your favorite design apps.* Clean Preview: Instantly visualize your font with a beautiful, uncluttered preview pane. Unlock the full creative potential of Letterforms with a subscription. Manage your subscription easily through your App Store account settings. For more details on subscription terms, privacy, and data handling, please visit our full policy page. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Font Maker
Easily transform your handwritten letters into custom fonts. Design unique cards, social media content, or personal branding elements with your own handwriting. Pro users can download their creations and enjoy an ad-free experience.
- Create custom fonts from drawings
- Design greeting cards
- Personal branding tools
- Download created fonts (Pro)
- Ad-free experience (Pro)
- Unlimited access to features (Pro)
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Turn your handwriting into a real font. Draw each letter with your finger and Font Maker builds a font that is truly yours. Use it to write cards and messages in your own hand, or export it as a TTF file for your computer. MAKE YOUR FONT • Draw letters, numbers and symbols on a guided canvas • Choose from four pen thicknesses, with undo and redo • Adjust each letter's position so your writing lines up • Pick up where you left off: your progress is saved WRITE CARDS IN YOUR OWN HAND • Birthday, thank-you and love notes from ready-made templates • Sizes for chats, stories, wide and square posts • Change colors, alignment and spacing while your card stays in view • Share to WhatsApp, Instagram, iMessage and more EXPORT A REAL FONT FILE • Download your font as a TTF file • Install it and use it in Word, Canva, GoodNotes and other apps that support custom fonts Your first font is free to create and export. Please note: Font Maker is not a keyboard. iOS keyboards cannot use custom fonts, so use the card maker to send messages in your handwriting. FONT MAKER PRO • Create as many fonts as you like • Remove the watermark from your cards • Transparent card backgrounds • No ads Pro is available as an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Privacy policy: https://gokselpirnal.com/font_maker_privacy_policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Questions or ideas? Email gokselpirnal@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Letterforms at 3.9 against Font Maker's 3.1. Letterforms also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). Font Maker's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and review sentiment (57% vs 32%). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Letterforms sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Font Maker sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Letterforms holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 26 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 32% of Letterforms's written reviews are positive against 57% of Font Maker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Letterforms ships an update weekly, Font Maker every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Letterforms | Font Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (9 ratings) — better | 3.1 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 31.8% of reviews | 56.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 久乔 魏 | Goksel Pirnal |
Customer experience
Letterforms
Font Maker
In-app purchases
Letterforms
- Weekly Subscription7 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Legacy purchase$49.99
Font Maker
- Weekly Plan$0.997 Days
- Pro Weekly3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
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- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Yearly Plan$12.491 Year
- Premium Paper Editor$0.99
- Ads Free$0.99
- Remove Watermark$0.99
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- Special Bundle: All in one$1.99
- Lifetime Pro$19.99
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