Comparison

LeFont vs Font Studio

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

Head to head
About

LeFont

Create custom fonts from your handwriting on your iPhone or iPad. Draw letters, import existing writing, and export as a standard font file. Advanced features for polished font families are available through an optional subscription.

Highlights
  • Draw letters with Apple Pencil or touch
  • Import completed writing sheets
  • Export fonts as TTF
  • Install fonts on iPhone/iPad
  • Multiple pen styles
  • Advanced Pro features
Features
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LeFont turns your handwriting into a real font you can install and use in apps that support custom fonts. Draw letters directly, import a writing sheet, refine glyphs, and export on your iPhone or iPad. MAKE A FONT THAT LOOKS LIKE YOU • Follow Guided Capture to draw uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation, and language characters. • Create alternate forms for a glyph and preview the result in real words. • Use LeFont calligraphy tools or Apple Pencil tools on the same canvas. • Import a photo, scan, or completed writing sheet, then review each detected glyph. • Undo, erase, adjust, and approve your shapes before export. • Export a regular TrueType font for free and install it through iOS Settings. LANGUAGE AND SCRIPT PACKS English is included for free. Free projects use one writing system at a time. Nine optional one-time language packs expand the characters you can draw and export: • Latin Family Bundle: Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian letter sets, German characters, and extended Latin characters • Arabic • Japanese Hiragana (one Japanese script) • Japanese Katakana (a separate Japanese script) • Greek • Russian Cyrillic • Hebrew • Armenian • Georgian Each purchase unlocks only the listed character set or bundle, not an entire language beyond the characters shown in the app. Active Pro includes every current pack. Lifetime Pro permanently includes the current packs. Packs do not include Pro editing tools. LEFONT PRO Pro adds automation and typography tools to turn one Regular style into a font family: • Generate Auto Bold, Auto Italic, and Bold Italic drafts; redraw only what you want to change. • Smooth curves, refine contours, protect counters, and adjust glyph alignment. • Improve spacing, sidebearings, kerning, and glyph collisions. • Create contextual alternates and OpenType ligatures. • Export OTF, WOFF2 web-font packages, variable fonts, COLR/CPAL color fonts, and editable sources when compatible with the project. • Save proof sets and make specimen PDFs, font health reports, and review kits. Pro Monthly includes every current pack while active. Lifetime Pro includes the same tools and current packs permanently. If a Pro subscription ends, projects containing Pro-only features remain viewable and exportable, but editing is locked. Projects without active Pro-only content stay editable. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Font capture, image interpretation, cleanup, and export run on your device. LeFont does not require an account or cloud upload. Handwriting is never uploaded automatically; sharing a sample requires an explicit export and share action. Privacy Policy: https://elkwai.com/lefont-privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Font Studio

Features
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Font Studio: Font Editor A professional font toolkit for creating, editing, inspecting, composing, repairing and converting fonts — entirely on-device. Font Studio brings real font engineering tools to iPhone and iPad. Work directly with your fonts without sending files to a server or relying on a desktop computer. CREATE AND EDIT FONTS Build and refine fonts with professional vector tools. • Design glyphs with Bézier paths • Draw and edit vector outlines • Transform, duplicate and flip glyphs • Inspect individual glyph structures • Create new fonts from scratch • Import and work with existing typefaces WORK WITH GLYPHS Explore and manage the characters inside your fonts. • Browse glyphs visually • Search Unicode characters • Inspect glyph mappings • Remove unwanted glyphs • Replace glyphs • Subset fonts by character coverage • Compare glyphs and font coverage PERFECT TYPOGRAPHY Fine-tune the details that make type look right. • Edit glyph metrics • Adjust advance widths • Fine-tune spacing • Edit kerning • Preview typography with real font rendering • Compare changes against the original • Test custom text, paragraphs and specimens COMPOSE FONTS Combine typefaces while keeping control over what gets added. • Compare source and destination fonts • Find missing characters • Resolve glyph conflicts • Choose which glyph to keep • Compose new font files • Handle composite glyph dependencies • Review changes before building the result VARIABLE FONT TOOLS Work with variable font technology directly on your device. • Inspect variable axes • Work with multiple font masters • Build variable fonts from compatible masters • Configure axes and instances • Preview variable font output • Export production-ready font files INSPECT OPENTYPE Go beyond the visible glyphs. Inspect: • GSUB • GPOS • GDEF • kern • cmap • glyf • gvar • hmtx • name • OS/2 • STAT • fvar • MVAR • and other font tables View scripts, lookups, feature information, metrics, coverage and technical metadata. REPAIR AND OPTIMIZE Analyze your fonts before they reach production. • Detect font health issues • Inspect warnings and diagnostics • Clean problematic outlines • Optimize font structure • Review technical findings • Re-analyze after changes CONVERT AND EXPORT Work with common font formats on-device. • TTF • OTF • WOFF • WOFF2 Convert, process and export your fonts without uploading them to a remote service. FONT PREVIEW Test your typeface before exporting it. Use: • Type preview • Paragraph preview • Specimen preview • Glyph preview • Custom text • Typography metrics • Spacing and kerning • Variable font axes BUILT FOR iPHONE AND iPAD Font Studio is designed as a real font workspace rather than a simplified desktop companion. Use it on iPhone for focused font work, or take advantage of the larger iPad workspace for detailed editing, inspection and typography. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your font files can stay on your device. Font processing is performed locally, so you can work with your typefaces without needing to upload them to a cloud font-processing service. Create. Edit. Engineer. Perfect. Font Studio by Podzi.

Screenshots

LeFont4 screens
Font Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: LeFont at none against Font Studio's shown. Font Studio's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 11 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. LeFont sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Font Studio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LeFont ships an update every 11 days, Font Studio every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
LeFont versus Font Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeFontFont Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB107 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKareem ElkwaeAhmed Nader

In-app purchases

2 purchases

LeFont

Subscriptions1
  • LeFont Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • LeFont Lifetime Pro$29.99
3 purchases

Font Studio

Subscriptions2
  • Font Studio Pro Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Font Studio Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Life time$49.99

Questions

Is LeFont free?
LeFont is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Font Studio free?
Font Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LeFont or Font Studio have ads?
Font Studio shows ads; LeFont does not.
Which is updated more often, LeFont or Font Studio?
LeFont ships an update every 11 days, and Font Studio every 4 days. Most recently, LeFont was updated on October 22, 2026 and Font Studio on October 31, 2026.

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