Comparison

Fontastic vs Appmarks

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

Head to head
About

Fontastic

Easily browse and install over 1,000 open-source fonts on your Apple devices. Preview fonts with your own text and use them instantly in various apps. Enjoy a clean, ad-free, and subscription-free experience.

Highlights
  • Browse 1,000+ open-source fonts
  • One-tap font installation
  • Works offline after installation
  • Preview fonts with custom text
  • Sort and filter fonts by category
  • No ads, login, or subscriptions
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Install real fonts on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro. Fontastic puts 1,000+ hand-picked open-source font families (4,800+ styles) one tap away, ready to use in Pages, Keynote, Procreate, Photoshop, and every app that supports custom fonts. No subscriptions. No ads. No account. REAL FONTS, NOT A KEYBOARD Fancy-text keyboards swap your letters for look-alike symbols that break in most apps. Fontastic installs genuine fonts through Apple's built-in font system: no configuration profiles, no workarounds. Installed fonts show up in Settings › General › Fonts and in every compatible app. WHY FONTASTIC • 1,000+ families from the Google Fonts library, plus hand-picked extras • One-tap install and uninstall, with all your fonts in one place • Every font previews in its own script, or type your own text • Filter by category (serif, sans serif, display, handwriting, monospace) or by writing system • Sort by name, popularity, or what's trending • Works offline once installed • No tracking, no login, no ads, no subscriptions FOR EVERY LANGUAGE Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Cyrillic, Greek, Devanagari, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, and 30+ writing systems in total, including Cherokee, Adlam, and N'Ko through the Noto family. EASIER READING OpenDyslexic, Atkinson Hyperlegible, and the Lexend family: typefaces designed to make text easier to read with dyslexia or low vision. FOR DESIGNERS AND DEVELOPERS Calligraphy and handwriting scripts, bold display faces, and timeless serifs for your designs. JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, Cascadia Code, Geist Mono, and Monaspace for your code. Even Bravura and Leland for music notation. USE THEM ANYWHERE Installed fonts work in: • Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Mail • Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Express • Procreate • Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo • GoodNotes and Notability • Canva • Hundreds more apps that support custom fonts EVERYTHING INCLUDED Every font in the catalog is yours to install. Nothing locked behind a paywall, no weekly subscription, no "pro tier." Built by Harf Labs, an indie studio that believes great typography shouldn't be rented by the week. Got feedback or a font request? We read every message: https://tally.so/r/nPXgkb

About

Appmarks

Easily bookmark apps from the App Store to create a wish list. Track app prices and organize your saved apps into custom groups. Sync your bookmarks across devices with iCloud support.

Highlights
  • Bookmark apps from App Store
  • Track app prices
  • Organize apps into groups
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Quick access to App Store listing
  • Share apps to Appmarks
Features
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Have you ever wanted to make a list of your favourite apps? How about keeping track of the prices of apps that you'd like to buy? Appmarks allows you to bookmark apps you find on the App Store so you can come back to them quickly and easily! Say you've found an app you'd really like to buy, but can't afford it just yet. You can bookmark it with Appmarks and come back to it later! Current Features: - Share apps to Appmarks from the App Store share button. - Bookmark apps from App Store URLs on your Clipboard. - The Appmarks list shows the app name, icon, developer and current price. - Quick access to view the app on the App Store. - Create groups to organise bookmarked apps with a custom title. - iCloud support so Appmarks and Groups are synced across devices and not lost when you reinstall the app. I'm new to developing SwiftUI apps, so if something isn't working quite right or you have any feature suggestions, feel free to leave a review or send me an email.

Screenshots

Fontastic4 screens
Appmarks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Appmarks at Free against Fontastic's $3.99. Appmarks also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Fontastic's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (48 vs 4). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Appmarks is free to download; Fontastic costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fontastic holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fontastic has 48 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Fontastic's written reviews are positive against 86% of Appmarks's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Fontastic versus Appmarks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFontasticAppmarks
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (48 ratings) — better4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings48 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision ProiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHarf LabsLiam Cottle

Customer experience

Fontastic

All ratings48 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral6.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

Appmarks

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Fontastic

No in-app purchases

None

Appmarks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fontastic free?
Fontastic costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Appmarks free?
Appmarks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fontastic or Appmarks?
Fontastic is rated higher. Fontastic averages 4.8 out of 5 from 48 ratings, while Appmarks averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Fontastic or Appmarks have ads?
Neither Fontastic nor Appmarks shows ads.

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