CharMap vs Font Viewer
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 Viewer
Explore and select typefaces for your design projects. Access system fonts, Google Fonts, and Font Awesome icons. Ideal for designers needing quick font previews.
- Font preview for projects
- Supports iOS system fonts
- Includes Google Fonts
- Access to Font Awesome icons
- On-the-go font selection
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A font viewer app that helps designers choose a typeface for their project from a variety of different fonts. While at the desk, on the go or during lunch. Now fonts for iOS (system-installed), Google Edition(fonts at Google Fonts), and Font Awesome are available.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Font Viewer at 4.5 against CharMap's 4.0. Font Viewer also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (67% vs 54%). CharMap's advantage is ratings volume (57 vs 4). 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.
Font Viewer holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CharMap has 57 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of CharMap's written reviews are positive against 67% of Font Viewer's.
CharMap ships an update every 4 months, Font Viewer every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CharMap | Font Viewer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (57 ratings) | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.7% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 57 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Conor Mulligan | yoshito hasaka |
Customer experience
CharMap
Font Viewer
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 Viewer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CharMap
No in-app purchases
Font Viewer
No in-app purchases
