Comparison

iFontMaker vs Inkpad

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

Head to head
About

iFontMaker

Easily create your own unique fonts for Mac, iOS, PC, and the web in minutes. This app offers a fun and accessible way to design custom typefaces, suitable for both beginners and experienced designers working with advanced features.

Highlights
  • Create handmade fonts
  • Design for Mac, iOS, PC, and web
  • Intuitive font creation process
  • Supports Bézier curves, SVGs, kerning, and ligatures
  • Install fonts directly on iOS devices
Features
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iFontMaker 3 for iPad Create Your Own Handmade Fonts Stop choosing fonts and start making your own today — font creation has never been easier or more fun. With iFontMaker, you can create original fonts for Mac, iOS, PC, and the web in just 4 minutes. From beginners to experts working with Bézier curves, SVGs, kerning, and custom ligatures*, everyone can enjoy iFontMaker. Create unique, one-of-a-kind fonts on your iPad! *Offered as a free update since version 3.0. ■ “iFontMaker is a whole world of font designing fun” — Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/pda/2010/oct/11/ipad-ifontmaker-design-app ■ “iFontMaker: Make Your Own Font When Nothing Else Will Do” — Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/ifontmaker-make-your-own-font-when-nothing-else-will-d-494294426 ■ “FONT-TASTIC!” — 148apps.com https://www.148apps.com/reviews/ifontmaker-review/ ## Now you can install your own font on iOS devices!! ## https://2ttf.tumblr.com/post/86875545787/install-fonts-from-2ttf-on-ios-devices

About

Inkpad

Create professional vector art on your iPad with a powerful yet intuitive interface. Draw with precision, manipulate objects, and apply flexible typography effects. Organize your work with unlimited layers and easily import/export various file formats.

Highlights
  • Precision vector drawing tools
  • Flexible typography effects
  • Unlimited layers for organization
  • Advanced object manipulation
  • Gradient editing and Boolean operations
  • Import/export SVG, PDF, PNG, JPEG
  • Apple Pencil support
Features
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Create beautiful vector artwork on your iPad with Inkpad. Draw with accuracy and speed. Quickly align new or existing objects either to a grid, points, or path edges. Alternatively draw freehand bezier paths using the brush tool. Select, scale and rotate hundreds of objects with high performance in real time. Cutout elements of artwork, photographs or patterns with masks. Flexible typography effects. Position text at any angle or to follow along paths. Apply multiple effects to text, with stroke, fill, shadow and opacity all dynamically adjustable. If the over seventy built in fonts don’t quite fit your design, you can import any of the millions of OpenType and TrueType fonts available. Take control with unlimited layers. Feel free to add as many or as few elements in each layer to organise your drawings. Rename, rearrange, delete, hide and lock layers as you draw. Isolate the active layer for easy editing. Adjust each layers transparency independently to get your ideal composition. Powerful editing at your fingertips. Easily manipulate single or multiple elements with powerful scale and rotate tools. Associate individual elements into groups. Interactively edit gradient fills on the canvas. Perform a range of Boolean operations on paths, including Unite, Intersect, Exclude and Subtract Front. Colors to match your imagination. Picking the perfect color is easy with the freedom of the expressive color wheel. Or modify colors using RGB and HSB sliders. Enter the hexadecimal value to precisely match existing artwork colors. Sample colors using the dropper. Store and recall colors from the swatch library. Import, export and sharing. Import drawings from desktop vector applications as SVG and include photos directly from your camera roll, or import PNG and JPEG images from cloud services. Export your drawings for sharing or importing into other apps as SVG, PDF, PNG and JPEG to all cloud storage services. Send drawings as photos directly to your camera roll. Light & dark modes. Light and dark mode system appearances with the option to override the system setting to light or dark mode for Inkpad. Apple Pencil. If you’ve got an iPad Pro or the 2018 iPad, Inkpad works great with the Apple Pencil. Praise for Inkpad. Some of the kind feedback received in emails and App Store reviews: “Works perfect on latest iPad Pro, Apple Pencil.” “It’s really beautiful to use with an iPad Pro.” “Inkpad is one of the killer apps for the iPad.” “Inkpad is my favorite graphics app on any platform. Inkpad is just the right balance of enough power without being too complicated.” “If you’ve worked with Illustrator or Inkscape, this is the vector drawing app to download for your iPad. Especially nice with the iPad Pro with Apple Pencil.” “I love this vector drawing app for its easy-to-use interface and pared-down tool bar. It covers the essentials perfectly and the developers are very responsive to questions.” “Inkpad is my main vector design tool for mobile. This is the app that Adobe Draw should be.” “Thank you guys, I use this app all the time.” “If you used to work with Inkpad in the past you should get this app to continue working with it.” Acknowledgements. Thank you to Martin Coffey, Rita Flores, Yve Müller, Armin Popp, David Rivera, Nicolas Saez, Erick Villagomez, Felipe Villela and Jason Wray for contributing artwork to the ‘Designed with Inkpad’ app preview video and screenshots. Please visit our website to see more of their artwork and for links to their portfolios. History. Inkpad was originally created by Steve Sprang in 2011, but it disappeared from the App Store in 2015. I took over development because my wife Lindsay uses Inkpad and I wanted to ensure the continued development and support of a product we and others enjoy so much. Terms and Conditions: http://inkpad.art/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy: http://inkpad.art/privacy/

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Inkpad at Free against iFontMaker's $7.99. Inkpad also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.5). iFontMaker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and chart position (#196 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Inkpad is free to download; iFontMaker costs $7.99 up front. Inkpad sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. iFontMaker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Inkpad holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 153 and 420 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of iFontMaker's written reviews are positive against 57% of Inkpad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iFontMaker ships an update every 6 weeks, Inkpad every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
iFontMaker versus Inkpad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriFontMakerInkpad
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating3.5 (153 ratings)4.3 (420 ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.9% of reviews57.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings153420 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#196 — better—
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better13.4
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEiji NishidaiEnvoza

Customer experience

iFontMaker

All ratings153 ratings
Positive54.2%
Neutral16.3%
Negative29.4%
Written reviews355 reviews
Positive54.9%
Neutral20.0%
Negative25.1%

Inkpad

All ratings420 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral2.6%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews157 reviews
Positive57.3%
Neutral11.5%
Negative31.2%

User reviews

iFontMaker

From 153 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Intuitive interface
  • 🚀 Quick font creation
  • 💡 Ability to create custom fonts
  • 👍 Good for handwritten/casual fonts

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
  • 🔍 Limited brush/pen options
  • 🔍 Difficulty with precise editing
  • 🔍 Clunky workflow for some features

Inkpad

From 420 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Intuitive and efficient interface
  • 🚀 Powerful vector illustration capabilities
  • 💡 Seamless integration with Apple Pencil
  • 🔧 Versatile for various design projects
  • 💡 Affordable alternative to desktop software

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional performance issues and crashes
  • 🔒 Subscription-only model, no longer a one-time purchase
  • 🔒 Restricted access to previous work without subscription
  • 💡 Lack of comprehensive tutorials and documentation
  • 💡 Missing advanced features like canvas rotation

Bugs and requests

iFontMaker

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes when trying to load previous projects
  • Issues with importing/exporting fonts
  • Glitches when drawing certain characters
  • Incompatibility with Apple Pencil pressure sensitivity

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add eraser tool
  • Improve brush/pen customization options
  • Implement better vector editing tools
  • Add support for more languages/scripts
  • Improve font installation and usage process
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  • Provide better documentation and tutorials

Inkpad

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Distortion issues when importing SVG files
  • Inability to access previous work without subscription
  • Grayed-out options and functionality after updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved file management with folders
  • Addition of a brush tool with customizable ends
  • Inclusion of an isometric grid and dimension tools
  • Support for more cloud storage services beyond Dropbox
  • In-app palm rejection for a better drawing experience

In-app purchases

None

iFontMaker

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Inkpad

Subscriptions2
  • Inkpad Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
  • Inkpad Yearly1 Month trial$9.991 Year
One-time3
  • Medium Tip$1.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
  • Enormous Tip$9.99

Questions

Is iFontMaker free?
iFontMaker costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Inkpad free?
Inkpad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iFontMaker or Inkpad?
Inkpad is rated higher. iFontMaker averages 3.5 out of 5 from 153 ratings, while Inkpad averages 4.3 from 420 ratings.
Do iFontMaker or Inkpad have ads?
Neither iFontMaker nor Inkpad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iFontMaker or Inkpad?
iFontMaker ships an update every 6 weeks, and Inkpad every 5 weeks. Most recently, iFontMaker was updated on September 27, 2026 and Inkpad on September 26, 2026.

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