WhatTheFont vs WhatFont
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WhatTheFont
Instantly identify fonts from images. Simply upload a photo of a design, and this app will recognize the fonts and suggest matches. It's ideal for designers, crafters, and anyone curious about typography, helping you discover and try out new fonts.
- Identify fonts from photos
- Suggests font matches
- Type custom text in found fonts
- Browse similar fonts
- Font inspiration and learning
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Identify fonts in a snap! Take a photo of a design you love - WhatTheFont recognizes the fonts and shows font matches. Great for designers, crafters, and anyone who loves typography. Perfect for when you see a great design and want to identify the fonts, or when your client sends you an image but doesn’t know what fonts were used. - Type out words in the fonts you find – enter your own text to try them out on the spot. - Get ideas and inspiration for font options for your own projects. - Learn the names of cool fonts. - Browse fonts similar to the one in your image. WhatTheFont is powered by AI, making it fast and easy to use. Brought to you by the friendly people at MyFonts.
WhatFont
Easily identify fonts used on any webpage. Simply select text and activate the tool to discover font family, weight, and other details. Now available for iPhone and iPad.
- Inspect web fonts
- Identify font family
- Detect font weight
- Show font details
- Simple 2-step process
- Safari extension support
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WhatFont is a quick way to identify fonts on web pages, and now it lives right inside Safari on iPhone and iPad. Select some text, tap WhatFont in the Safari menu, and a sheet slides up over the page with everything about its font: • The font’s name, drawn in the font itself • Where it comes from: Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts, a web font, or a font on your device • Size, weight, line height and letter spacing • The text color, in hex and other formats • The font stack, with the font in use picked out Tap any value to copy it, or copy all the CSS at once. Nothing selected? WhatFont lists the fonts on the page, most used first. Tap one to see its details. IN SAFARI • A sheet on iPhone and a popover on iPad, so the page stays in view • Follows light and dark mode • Works in Private Browsing once you allow it PRIVATE WhatFont reads a page only when you open WhatFont on it. No accounts, no tracking, no ads, and it collects no data. GETTING STARTED Open WhatFont and turn on the extension: tap Turn On, or on earlier versions of iOS, tap the menu button beside the address bar in Safari and choose Manage Extensions. Then select text, tap the same menu button (on iPad, the Extensions button), and choose WhatFont. Designers and developers have used WhatFont to identify fonts on the web for more than a decade. Now it’s in Safari too.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WhatFont at 5.0 against WhatTheFont's 2.4. WhatFont also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 36%). WhatTheFont's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 73 months) and ratings volume (591 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WhatFont holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WhatTheFont has 591 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of WhatTheFont's written reviews are positive against 50% of WhatFont's.
WhatTheFont ships an update every 4 months, WhatFont every 73 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WhatTheFont | WhatFont |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (591 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 591 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 73 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MyFonts Inc. | Chengyin Liu |
Customer experience
WhatTheFont
WhatFont
Bugs and requests
WhatTheFont
Reported bugs
5 issues- Inability to accept terms and conditions
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
- Endless loading and search failures
- Corrupted image uploads
- Incorrect font identification and suggestions
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to save identified fonts
- Option to search for free font alternatives
- Improved cropping and text selection tools
- Landscape mode support
- Better font database and matching algorithms
WhatFont
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
WhatTheFont
No in-app purchases
WhatFont
No in-app purchases
Questions
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