Comparison

WhatFont vs Font Visualizer Pro

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

Head to head
About

WhatFont

Easily identify fonts used on any webpage. Simply select text and activate the tool to discover font family, weight, and other details. Now available for iPhone and iPad.

Highlights
  • Inspect web fonts
  • Identify font family
  • Detect font weight
  • Show font details
  • Simple 2-step process
  • Safari extension support
Features
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WhatFont is a quick way to identify fonts on web pages, and now it lives right inside Safari on iPhone and iPad. Select some text, tap WhatFont in the Safari menu, and a sheet slides up over the page with everything about its font: • The font’s name, drawn in the font itself • Where it comes from: Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts, a web font, or a font on your device • Size, weight, line height and letter spacing • The text color, in hex and other formats • The font stack, with the font in use picked out Tap any value to copy it, or copy all the CSS at once. Nothing selected? WhatFont lists the fonts on the page, most used first. Tap one to see its details. IN SAFARI • A sheet on iPhone and a popover on iPad, so the page stays in view • Follows light and dark mode • Works in Private Browsing once you allow it PRIVATE WhatFont reads a page only when you open WhatFont on it. No accounts, no tracking, no ads, and it collects no data. GETTING STARTED Open WhatFont and turn on the extension: tap Turn On, or on earlier versions of iOS, tap the menu button beside the address bar in Safari and choose Manage Extensions. Then select text, tap the same menu button (on iPad, the Extensions button), and choose WhatFont. Designers and developers have used WhatFont to identify fonts on the web for more than a decade. Now it’s in Safari too.

About

Font Visualizer Pro

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Font Visualizer Pro is a tool for the graphics and font designers to view, study, and inspect the glyphs of the TrueType and OpenType fonts. With its Map-like user interface, the user can explore all the glyphs in the font. It supports both iOS internal fonts, as well as the font files you specify, e.g., the fonts you downloaded from the websites like Google Fonts. It shows all the glyphs defined in the font, including dingbat symbols. - Glance over all the glyphs of the selected font at once. - View both iOS internal fonts as well as fonts you supply. - View all the glyphs including dingbats and symbols. - Each glyph in details with metrics. - View the effect of the kerning for all the combinations. - Smooth navigation with panning and zooming.

Screenshots

WhatFont4 screens
Font Visualizer Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: WhatFont at Free against Font Visualizer Pro's $9.99. On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

WhatFont is free to download; Font Visualizer Pro costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
WhatFont versus Font Visualizer Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhatFontFont Visualizer Pro
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 73 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChengyin LiuSHOICHIRO YAMANISHI

In-app purchases

None

WhatFont

No in-app purchases

None

Font Visualizer Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WhatFont free?
WhatFont is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Font Visualizer Pro free?
Font Visualizer Pro costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do WhatFont or Font Visualizer Pro have ads?
Neither WhatFont nor Font Visualizer Pro shows ads.

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