Fonts vs FontStudio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fonts
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# Family Handwriting: Font Maker Turn your family's handwriting into beautiful digital fonts and preserve precious memories forever. Family Handwriting: Font Maker lets you create custom fonts from the handwriting of your loved ones. Capture the unique writing style of your children, parents, grandparents, and family members, then use those fonts to create meaningful memories that last a lifetime. ## Create Family Handwriting Fonts • Create fonts from your son's handwriting • Save your daughter's growing handwriting style • Preserve mom's and dad's handwriting forever • Capture grandparent handwriting memories • Create unlimited family handwriting collections ## Track Handwriting Over Time • Compare handwriting year by year • See how your child's writing develops as they grow • Store handwriting history and milestones • Create a timeline of handwriting memories ## Preserve Precious Memories • Save family handwriting forever • Build a digital handwriting archive • Keep memories safe across generations • Never lose important handwritten moments ## Create Personalized Signatures • Design custom signatures • Practice and improve signatures • Save multiple signature styles • Export signatures for personal use ## Design Beautiful Cards Use your family fonts to create: • Birthday cards • Wedding invitations • Anniversary cards • Greeting cards • Family keepsakes • Special occasion memories ## Sync Across All Your Devices • Secure cloud synchronization • Access fonts on iPhone and iPad • Sync data across your Apple devices • Restore fonts when changing devices • Keep your memories safe and backed up ## Why Families Love Family Handwriting > Preserve family memories > Create unique personal fonts > Track children's handwriting growth > Make personalized cards and gifts > Secure cloud backup and sync > Easy and fun to use Create lasting memories with the people you love. Download Family Handwriting: Font Maker today and turn handwriting into a treasure that lasts forever. Family Handwriting: Font Maker PRO:- Family Handwriting: Font Maker offers an optional Pro subscription that unlocks the family members, handwriting fonts, greeting cards unlimited, and memories and signatures. Subscriptions are billed weekly, monthly, or yearly through your App Store account and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Privacy Policy: https://familyhandwritingfontmaker.blogspot.com/2026/06/family-handwriting-font-maker-app.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
FontStudio
Transform your handwriting into usable digital fonts. Design and refine every letter with intuitive tools, then export your creations as TTF, OTF, or WOFF files. All your font projects are stored directly on your device.
- Handwriting to font conversion
- Vector outline editing
- Adjustable spacing and kerning
- Printable handwriting sheets
- Multiple export formats (TTF, OTF, WOFF)
- Import artwork and existing fonts
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Turn your handwriting into a font you can actually use. FontStudio is a complete type design studio for iPhone and iPad: draw every letter, perfect the curves, tune spacing and kerning, then export a real TTF, OTF, or WOFF file. Everything is made and stored on your device. DRAW EVERY LETTER • Sketch each character with Apple Pencil or your finger on a pressure-sensitive canvas • Four nib profiles: Pressure, Monoline, Calligraphic with a pen angle dial, and Tapered • Guides for baseline, x-height, cap height, ascender, and descender, plus an adjustable grid • Trace or compare against a ghost reference letter shown in any font on your device • Pencil-only mode lets fingers pan and zoom while only Apple Pencil draws • Double-tap or squeeze your Apple Pencil to switch between drawing and erasing • Deep per-letter undo and redo that survives switching characters PRINT A SHEET, SCAN A WHOLE ALPHABET • Generate a printable handwriting sheet on US Letter or A4, ruled with your font's own metrics • Write your letters in the printed cells, then scan the pages with your camera • Registration marks align each page automatically, with manual adjustment if one is missed • Review every cell, exclude the ones you want to redo, and import a full alphabet at once PERFECT EVERY CURVE WITH VECTOR NODES • Edit true outlines with anchor points and bezier handles • Switch nodes between corner and smooth, add or delete points • Move, scale, and rotate selections with an on-canvas gizmo or lasso select WEIGHT, SPACING, AND KERNING • One slider makes the whole font lighter or bolder — your strokes stay intact, and reset is one tap away • Set left and right side bearings per letter with a live proof of its neighbors • Kern pairs by dragging letters closer or apart, with suggestions like AV, To, and LT TEST IT BEFORE YOU SHIP IT • The type tester compiles your font and renders live text in it • Type your own sample or use built-in specimens for pangrams, capitals, numerals, punctuation, and kerning • Adjust size and line height, and preview in light or dark IMPORT ARTWORK, OR OPEN A FONT YOU ALREADY HAVE • Bring in PNG or SVG artwork from Photos, Files, the clipboard, or by dragging it onto a letter • Tune ink detection and smoothing to control how artwork is traced • Open TTF, OTF, WOFF, and WOFF2 files to edit, straight from Files, AirDrop, or the share sheet EXPORT REAL FONT FILES • TrueType (.ttf) — the one file most people need; installs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Windows • OpenType CFF (.otf) — for design applications • WOFF — for @font-face on your website • Per-letter SVG files and a printable specimen PDF • Real kerning tables are compiled into the exported font • Export checks catch empty letters, unclosed outlines, and name conflicts, then jump you straight to the fix • Send your font with the share sheet or save it to Files YOUR FONT LIBRARY • Every font shows a live specimen drawn from your own letters • Grid, list, compact, and gallery layouts, favorites, and sorting • Duplicate a font, or duplicate as a variant to build a family • Choose your coverage: capitals, lowercase, numerals, punctuation, accented Latin, and your own custom characters • Set family name, style, PostScript name, version, author, copyright, and license — written into the font itself PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in, no upload — fonts are compiled entirely on your device • Optional iCloud sync keeps your library on all your devices and works offline • Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID • Export and import a full backup of your fonts at any time FREE AND PRO Drawing, node editing, importing, weight, spacing, kerning, the type tester, and printing handwriting sheets are free forever. Pro unlocks font export and handwriting scanning, as a monthly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Fonts at 16.4 against FontStudio's 26.2. On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Fonts sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and FontStudio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Fonts | FontStudio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dhruv Kathiriya | Life Utility Apps, LLC |
In-app purchases
Fonts
- Family Handwriting Weekly Pro$2.997 Days
- Family Handwriting Monthly Pro$9.991 Month
FontStudio
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Lifetime Access$19.99








