Comparison

FontNotes vs Fountain Notes

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

Head to head
About

FontNotes

Create personalized notes with a wide range of fonts and customization options. Easily import your own fonts, adjust size, color, and layout to express your thoughts uniquely. Perfect for journaling, planning, and capturing inspiration.

Highlights
  • Create and organize styled notes
  • Import custom fonts
  • Customize colors, sizes, and formatting
  • Simple, clean interface
  • Expressive note customization
Features
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Make every note look the way it feels. FontNotes lets you write in fonts that match your mood, whether you're journaling, planning, making lists, or capturing a passing idea. Choose from your own font library or import new styles in seconds, then customize borders, colors, letter spacing, and styling until every note is uniquely yours. And now your words don't have to stay on a straight line: draw a path anywhere on your note, and your text flows right along it. WHY YOU'LL LOVE FONTNOTES: • Browse and download thousands of fonts from DaFont, FontShare, ArFonts, Google Fonts and more, or import your own • Give every note its own look with borders, colors, letter spacing, and ruled, dotted, or grid backgrounds • Bend your words along any path you draw, with Text on Path • Create notes, lists, and checklists that keep their formatting • Add photos and images to your notes • Put your favorite notes on your home screen with small, medium, and large widgets • Organize notes into folders and fonts into groups • Focus Mode: clear away distractions and read your note in peace • Check any font's license terms in the built-in font inspector • Sync seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud • Choose your own app theme color. Make FontNotes truly yours. • Built with accessibility in mind: adjustable Contrast, Text Size, and Bold Text, plus support for VoiceOver and Voice Control • Lock the app with Face ID or a passcode • Restore deleted notes for up to 30 days • Create and style notes with Shortcuts • Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese • A simple, clean interface designed for creativity Your thoughts aren't plain, and your notes shouldn't be either. FontNotes makes writing truly yours.

About

Fountain Notes

Features
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Fountain Notes opens to a blank note so you can get an idea out before it slips away. No formatting maze. No folders to manage. No decision fatigue before the thought is even written. Write the note, file it away, and move on. Fountain Notes keeps old notes organized automatically and hidden from view until you need them. Search and the drawer are there when you want to find something, but they do not crowd the writing surface. Built for quick ideas, tiny reminders, quotes, fragments, and the little thoughts that usually vanish while you are deciding where they belong. Fountain Notes is intentionally small: - Blank note first - Fast local saving - One thought at a time - Clean search - Calm history drawer A quiet place to catch the thing and keep going.

Screenshots

FontNotes4 screens
Fountain Notes2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fountain Notes at none against FontNotes's 1. Fountain Notes also leads on ads (none vs shown). FontNotes's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. FontNotes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fountain Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FontNotes ships an update every 3 days, Fountain Notes every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
FontNotes versus Fountain Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFontNotesFountain Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS1717.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
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In-app purchases

1 purchases

FontNotes

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
None

Fountain Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FontNotes free?
FontNotes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fountain Notes free?
Fountain Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FontNotes or Fountain Notes have ads?
FontNotes shows ads; Fountain Notes does not.
Which is updated more often, FontNotes or Fountain Notes?
FontNotes ships an update every 3 days, and Fountain Notes every 5 days. Most recently, FontNotes was updated on September 24, 2026 and Fountain Notes on August 22, 2026.

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