FontBooth vs Grapheme
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FontBooth
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FontBooth is designed to provide fonts that have a high glyph coverage of CJK Unicode blocks, enabling you to continue working on documents on the go. FontBooth is not looking for eye-catching fonts, but rather focuses mainly on Hei, Yuan, Song, Ming, and Kai glyph CJK fonts. Although all fonts are available for personal or commercial use, there may be specific limitations for each font. If you intend to use them for other than document viewing or editing, please carefully examine the licenses. ### About custom fonts - Custom fonts can only be used by apps with custom font privileges. - Custom fonts are not accessible through the keyboard extension, even though the hosting application has been granted the font privilege.
Grapheme
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Grapheme is a pocket museum of the characters the world writes with, as Unicode records them. The entire code space is laid out in one grid, grouped by block and ready to wander. A COLLECTION FULL OF SURPRISES • The complete Unicode 16 code space, organized by block • Wander from Egyptian hieroglyphs to alchemical symbols, Byzantine musical notation, mahjong tiles, and emoji • Jump to any block instantly with the block picker, and pin the ones you visit most • Even characters your device has no font for get a meaningful placeholder glyph, so nothing shows up as an empty box CHARACTER DETAILS AT A TAP Tap any cell to see everything about that character: • Official Unicode name and block • Code point in U+ notation • Byte encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16 (BE and LE), UTF-32 (BE and LE) • HTML entity FAST SEARCH • Find characters by name: try “snowman”, “dragon”, or “pile of poo” • Look up a code point directly by its hex value • Paste in any text to see the code points it breaks down into, including the ZWJ sequences inside an emoji FAVORITES • Mark characters you use often and come back to them in one tap WORKS COMPLETELY OFFLINE The full Unicode 16 character database ships inside the app. Browse, search, and inspect encodings anywhere, with no network connection required. MADE FOR DEVELOPERS, DESIGNERS, AND THE CURIOUS Debugging a text-encoding issue? Hunting for the perfect arrow, box-drawing character, or mathematical symbol? Exploring ancient scripts and the far reaches of the astral planes? Grapheme puts the entire Unicode standard at your fingertips.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: FontBooth at none against Grapheme's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
| Parameter | FontBooth | Grapheme |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ethan Liu | Hsingchien Cheng |
In-app purchases
FontBooth
No in-app purchases
Grapheme
No in-app purchases









