CharMap vs Font Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CharMap
Explore and manage Unicode characters with this utility. Organize favorites, view details, and copy characters to your clipboard. Use the custom keyboard to insert them anywhere and sync collections across devices.
- Browse curated character categories
- Organize favorite characters
- View character details and copy to clipboard
- Insert characters with custom keyboard
- Discover characters and blocks
- Sync collections across devices
- Preview system fonts
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CharMap allows to you discover, organize, and use unicode characters. FEATURES • Browse a collection of curated character categories, and organize your favourite characters into custom collections. • View character details and copy characters to the clipboard in a variety of formats. • Enable the CharMap keyboard to insert characters wherever custom keyboards are supported. • Discover unicode characters and blocks using a dedicated unicode browser. • Automatically sync your collections between devices. • Quickly access your custom collections using the collection widget. • Browse system fonts and view font metadata. • No ads, trackers, or analytics. Your data is stored on-device, and optionally synced across your private iCloud account.
Font Maker
Design unique fonts to personalize your messages and social media posts. Easily create custom text styles and share them across various platforms like email, messaging apps, Facebook, and Twitter. Find the perfect cool nickname for your online profiles.
- Create custom fonts
- Write personalized messages
- Share via email and messaging
- Copy and paste into other apps
- Share on Facebook and Twitter
- Generate cool nicknames
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***** Ɲōẅ ωɪʈɦ Ҝɛʏßøɑṙⅆ ***** Font Maker lets you create cool fonts so ʏøϋ çɑɴ ωʀȋƬɛ mɛʂʂɑɢɛʂ ʟȋƙɛ Ƭɦȋʂ øɴɛ Create your custom fonts and use them to write messages and send them via email, message or copy and paste them in other apps. Also you can share your cool messages in Facebook and Twitter! Do you need a cool nickname for another app? This is your app! Many letters may only be visible on iOS devices (iPhone, iPod, iPad).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CharMap at 4.0 against Font Maker's 2.9. CharMap also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Font Maker's advantage is review sentiment (70% vs 54%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CharMap holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 57 and 79 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of CharMap's written reviews are positive against 70% of Font Maker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CharMap ships an update every 4 months, Font Maker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CharMap | Font Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (57 ratings) — better | 2.9 (79 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.7% of reviews | 69.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 57 | 79 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Conor Mulligan | Ricardo Alvarado |
Customer experience
CharMap
Font Maker
User reviews
CharMap
From 57 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🌟 Genuinely amazing for needs
- 💡 Custom keyboards brilliant
- 💯 Has every Unicode
- ✨ Very impressive
- 👍 Great for computer science
Room to improve
- ❌ No return/enter key
- ❓ Feature not obvious
- ⚠️ Characters omitted in other apps
- ⚪ Keyboard looks like white rectangle
- 😵 UI is ugly and old
Font Maker
From 79 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💎 Awesome app
- 🎨 Variety of fonts
- 🆓 Free to use
- ✨ Customizable fonts
- 🤩 Great for social media
Room to improve
- 🙈 Can't save fonts
- 🔒 Keyboard not available
- 🐌 Slow performance
- 🤯 Crashes frequently
- 🙅♀️ Limited font options
Bugs and requests
CharMap
Reported bugs
12 issues- Characters omitted in other apps
- Keyboard looks like white rectangle in some apps
- Private Use Area characters not shown
- Collections feature quit working
- App crashes every time it's opened
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- App crashes on iPad Pro
- App crashes on iPad
- Everything gone after update
- App doesn't open after update
- Some symbols are not shown
- Keyboard not showing up immediately
- Preferences -> font closes app
Requested features
20 requests- Add return/enter key
- Batch add characters to collections
- Multi-font support
- Unicode 18.0 support
- Add Unicode 17.0
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- Ability to select characters with single click
- Add 'raised to the power of x' symbol
- Add superscripts in letter, equation, and inequality form
- Option to format characters (LTR/RTL)
- Make fonts usable in 'Unicode'
- Implement custom font API
- Search for character option
- Search by character name
- Add Sutton SignWriting block
- Add symbol search
- Update UI with SF symbols
- Add dark mode support
- Rename collections
- Backup and Restore collections
- Put collections on top of list when using as keyboard
Font Maker
Reported bugs
4 issues- Save font option not working
- Bottom row of letters not accessible
- Pasting text issues
- Compatibility problems with iOS updates
Requested features
5 requests- Add keyboard functionality
- Expand font library
- Allow custom font creation
- Improve stability and performance
- Provide better instructions and guidance
In-app purchases
CharMap
No in-app purchases
Font Maker
No in-app purchases
Questions
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