Comparison

Text Faces for Texting vs Custom Fonts°

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

Head to head
About

Text Faces for Texting

Access a vast collection of ASCII emoticons and emoji art to enhance your text messages. Express yourself with over 10,000 unique creations.

Highlights
  • Over 10,000 emojis
  • ASCII emoticons
  • Emoji art
  • Enhance text messages
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This app gives you extra emojis. √ over 10000 emojis

About

Custom Fonts°

Enhance your messages and social media posts with a wide variety of custom fonts, emojis, symbols, and kaomojis. This keyboard app allows you to personalize your typing experience across all applications, ensuring your content stands out and your privacy is protected.

Highlights
  • 50+ custom fonts
  • 3600+ emojis
  • 2500+ symbols
  • 500+ kaomojis
  • Paste keyboard with saved quotes
  • Customizable keyboard themes
  • Offline functionality
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Full-featured keyboard for ALL apps with 50+ fonts, 3600+ Emojis, 2500+ Symbols, 500+ Kaomojis and Paste keyboard. #1 app for social networks & messaging apps. Impress your friends & increase your followers with beautiful writings. Your social media accounts will be outstanding! Fonts Keyboard is a keyboard that lets you choose between tons of custom fonts/emojis/symbols/kaomojis that you can use in every app, since it's a keyboard. Your friends & followers will receive awesome messages from you. With Fonts Keyboard, enjoy: • cool custom fonts • cool emoji's • cool symbols • cool facemoji's (kaomojis) • your own keyboard that you can compose yourself with your favorites emojis/facemojis/symbols • a paste keyboard with your favorites quotes to send instantly, or even spam your friends ;-) • the standard iOS appearance or your customized keyboard theme • continuous updates that bring new fonts & functionalities It works with all apps, including of course: • TikTok • Instagram • Snapchat • Messages (iMessage) • Facebook • WhatsApp • Messenger • Signal • Telegram • ... The keyboard can be customized with many settings like automatic capitalization, keyboard click sound, ... The keyboard appearance can be the iOS standard (light & dark mode) or your own look (with 50000+ color combinations.) The fonts list can be customized so that you can access your favorites fonts instantly. Fonts Keyboard is the only keyboard app that does not collect any data. It works offline. Your privacy matters and is safe with Fonts Keyboard! Another unique feature in Fonts Keyboard: the keyboard does NOT ask permission for "Full Access" authorization and therefore can NOT know what you type. 100% secure. I hope you enjoy the app シ Jonathan - --------- The terms of use & privacy policy can be found here: https://fkeyboard.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Text Faces for Texting4 screens
Custom Fonts°4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text Faces for Texting at none against Custom Fonts°'s 9. Text Faces for Texting also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Custom Fonts°'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (12K vs 2.1K). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Custom Fonts° sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Text Faces for Texting asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Text Faces for Texting against 4.6 for Custom Fonts°. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Custom Fonts° has 12K ratings behind it against 2.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 88% and 88% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Faces for Texting ships an update every 3 weeks, Custom Fonts° every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Text Faces for Texting versus Custom Fonts°: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText Faces for TextingCustom Fonts°
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.1K ratings) — better4.6 (12K ratings)
Positive reviews88.5% of reviews — better88.4% of reviews
Number of ratings2.1K12K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShuMei LiangiSolid apps

Customer experience

Text Faces for Texting

All ratings2,132 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral2.3%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews165 reviews
Positive88.5%
Neutral6.1%
Negative5.5%

Custom Fonts°

All ratings11,532 ratings
Positive89.0%
Neutral6.1%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews2,865 reviews
Positive88.4%
Neutral6.8%
Negative4.8%

User reviews

Text Faces for Texting

From 2.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Perfect version with no ads or paywalls
  • 👍 Massive selection of emojis
  • 👍 Easy to add to keyboard and use anywhere
  • 👍 Convenient and cute
  • 👍 Organized and has a wide variety of emojis

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Keyboard doesn't show up or can't be added to settings
  • 🐛 Disables autocorrect
  • 🐛 Randomly disappears from keyboard options
  • 🐛 Lags and crashes at times

Custom Fonts°

From 12K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Lots of free fonts
  • 👍 Easy to set up and use
  • ☺️ Fun and creative fonts
  • 💡 Customizable keyboard
  • 🎨 Wide variety of symbols and emojis

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Many premium fonts locked behind paywall
  • 🐛 Occasional freezing and typing issues
  • 🤔 Annoying prompts to leave reviews for more fonts
  • ⚠️ Limited font options without paying

Bugs and requests

Text Faces for Texting

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Keyboard doesn't work on iOS 18
  • Doesn't work with Twitter

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add a delete/backspace button for emojis
  • Allow users to add their own emojis and create custom folders
  • Add a 'favorites' section for quick access to frequently used emojis

Custom Fonts°

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Keyboard freezes when switching between fonts
  • Fonts not working in certain apps like Roblox
  • Inconsistent font rendering on different devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free font options
  • Improved spell check and autocorrect
  • Ability to sync custom fonts across devices
  • Customizable keyboard themes

In-app purchases

None

Text Faces for Texting

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Custom Fonts°

Subscriptions3
  • Fonts$4.997 Days
  • Fonts$8.991 Month
  • Fonts3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time6
  • 1 Small Thank You$5.99
  • 1 Medium Thank You$9.99
  • 1 Big Thank You$19.99
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  • Autumn Offer$29.99
  • Fonts$39.99
  • 1 Huge Thank You$39.99

Questions

Is Text Faces for Texting free?
Text Faces for Texting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Custom Fonts° free?
Custom Fonts° is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Text Faces for Texting or Custom Fonts°?
Text Faces for Texting is rated higher. Text Faces for Texting averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.1K ratings, while Custom Fonts° averages 4.6 from 12K ratings.
Do Text Faces for Texting or Custom Fonts° have ads?
Text Faces for Texting shows ads; Custom Fonts° does not.
Which is updated more often, Text Faces for Texting or Custom Fonts°?
Text Faces for Texting ships an update every 3 weeks, and Custom Fonts° every 2 months. Most recently, Text Faces for Texting was updated on September 23, 2026 and Custom Fonts° on September 24, 2026.

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