Custom Keyboard Fonts Fontsify vs Lighten
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Custom Keyboard Fonts Fontsify
Express your creativity with over 100 fonts, kaomojis, emojis, and symbols. Customize your keyboard with themes and save time with auto-paste functionality for frequently used text. Works across all your favorite apps.
- 100+ unique fonts
- 400+ kaomojis, emojis, and symbols
- 80+ custom keyboard themes
- Auto-paste for quick text insertion
- Works in all apps
- Light and dark mode support
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► Express your creative self with 100+ amazing fonts, 400+ Kaomojis, Emojis, and Symbols, and 80+ keyboard themes! ► Gothic, Typewriter, Cursive, Sans, Bold, Square, Script, WIDE, Upside-down, Strikethrough, and dozens of other fonts – Fontsify Keyboard has all the best fonts! ► Customize your keyboard with one tap – choose from 80+ beautiful custom keyboard themes! ► Save time with Auto Paste Keyboard! Easily add any text you frequently use for quick access right inside your keyboard! No more typing similar messages such as email, address, phone number, social media handles, and greetings again and again – add once, paste any time you want with our custom Auto Paste Keyboard! ► Fontsify Custom Keyboard works everywhere! Use cool fonts for Instagram, TikTok, Roblox, Twitch, Discord, Telegram, Facebook, iMessage, Messenger, WhatsApp, Kik, Snapchat, Twitter, and many more — Fontsify Fonts Custom Keyboard works in all your favorite apps! ► Fontsify Custom Keyboard works in landscape and portrait modes ► Fontsify Fancy Keyboard supports light and dark modes (with default keyboard theme) ► With hundreds of cool fonts, kaomoji, and symbols, you can create an amazing Instagram bio, write beautiful captions and comments, and create stunning highlights and IG stories. ► Surprise your friends with stylish and creative texts using cool fonts, kaomoji, and symbols! Unlock • cool fonts • kaomoji • symbols • keyboard themes • auto-paste keyboard with Fontsify Premium! – Weekly Fonts subscription: $4.99 – Monthly Fonts subscription: $9.99 – Annual Fonts subscription: $49.99 Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period, and identify the renewal cost. Your account will be in accordance with your plan within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or turn off auto-renew in your Apple ID account settings any time after purchase. This price is for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary, and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. – Privacy Policy: https://fontsify.com/privacy-policy/ – Terms of Use: https://fontsify.com/terms-of-use/ ► ANY QUESTIONS? Please email us at info@fontsify.com or go to https://fontsify.com/support. ⓃⓄ ⓂⓄⓇⒺ ⒷⓄⓇⒾⓃⒼ ⒻⓄⓃⓉⓈ with Fontsify Custom Keyboard Fonts!
Lighten
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Lighten frees up space on your iPhone and iPad without the tricks the rest of this category runs on. No ads. No daily deletion caps. No subscription required. Nothing is ever uploaded. SWIPE TO CLEAN — FREE, FOREVER • Month-by-month deck: swipe to keep, swipe to delete • No ads between photos, no caps, no progress resets • Honest session summary showing how much space you actually freed SMART SCANS — ONE FAIR PRICE • Exact duplicates, matched by content • Similar-photo clusters with a keep-the-best suggestion • Blurry shots, old screenshots, and large videos • Conservative thresholds and on-device face grouping, so “duplicates” never mix up photos of different people • Bulk review and clean flows for the whole library NUMBERS YOU CAN CHECK • Every figure comes from your actual library — never an estimate dressed up as a promise • If iCloud Photos optimization is on, Lighten explains what will and won't free space on the device itself — before you clean, not in a support reply afterwards • Recently Deleted and its 30-day window explained up front NOTHING IS DELETED BEHIND YOUR BACK • You review every batch before anything happens • Deletion always goes through the system Photos confirmation • Everything lands in Recently Deleted, recoverable for 30 days • A recently-cleaned list, so you can find and restore anything you change your mind about BUILT FOR REAL LIBRARIES • Handles libraries of 100,000+ photos without crashing • Scans are resumable, and pause themselves if your device gets warm • Works with limited photo access if you'd rather not grant the whole library HONEST PRICING • The free tier stays useful forever — it is not a trial in disguise • Lifetime unlock is the hero: pay once, yours forever, Family Sharing on • No trial-to-charge surprises, ever PRIVACY • Data Not Collected • No accounts, no ads, no third-party analytics, no networking at all • Your photos never leave your device TERMS AND PRIVACY • Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Privacy Policy: https://zebel.ai/lighten/privacy-policy • Lighten sells one non-consumable unlock. There is no subscription and nothing auto-renews.
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Verdict
Custom Keyboard Fonts Fontsify and Lighten are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Custom Keyboard Fonts Fontsify sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Lighten sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Custom Keyboard Fonts Fontsify ships an update every 2 months, Lighten every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Custom Keyboard Fonts Fontsify | Lighten |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (236 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 236 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TAMERZA LLC | Zebel OU |
Bugs and requests
Custom Keyboard Fonts Fontsify
Reported bugs
9 issues- Unicode codes displayed instead of fonts
- Typing outputs unicode codes
- Alphanumeric words are random numbers
- Premium fonts are locked
- Lifetime activation not working properly
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- Fonts not displaying
- App laggy and unusable
- Fonts take too long to load
- Cannot use emojis
Requested features
9 requests- Add cool keyboard themes
- Allow unlocking premium without payment
- Fix compatibility with iOS 26
- Fix unicode codes displaying instead of fonts
- Fix alphanumeric words displaying as random numbers
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- Fix lifetime activation issues
- Fix fonts not displaying
- Fix premium member access to fonts
- Fix emojis not working
Lighten
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Custom Keyboard Fonts Fontsify
- Fontsify Keyboard Fonts Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Fontsify Font Keyboard Monthly$7.991 Month
- Fonts for iPhones Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro Access$79.99
Lighten
- Smart Scans (Lifetime)$14.99
Questions
Is Custom Keyboard Fonts Fontsify free?
Is Lighten free?
Do Custom Keyboard Fonts Fontsify or Lighten have ads?
Which is updated more often, Custom Keyboard Fonts Fontsify or Lighten?
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