Phonto - Text on Photos
Phonto is a simple app that allows you to add text to photos.
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4.69
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Easy to use with simple controls for text placement
- Variety of fonts available, including options to import custom fonts
- Good for creating thumbnails, memes, and watermarking
- Ads are not intrusive and can even be seen as a welcome pause
- Minimal and clean design appreciated by users
Cons
- Missing features compared to iOS version, such as borders and certain creative tools
- Frequent technical issues, including bugs that cause the app to become unusable and loss of saved drafts or fonts
- Issues with text wrapping and centering, requiring manual adjustments that can be frustrating
- Quality of saved images can be poor, making text hard to read
- Limited settings and customization options compared to competing apps
Most mentioned
- Technical issues and bugs
- Missing features compared to the iOS version
- Text placement and wrapping problems
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
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| 2024-10-14 |  | | I bought the Paid version to get rid of the ads, and because I found that I was using it more and more because it is easy and dies what I want. I would love to see an option for persistsnt sorting, so when I open a Pic in a folder & sort by new, the next Pics would also be sorted by new. Also, a way to change the default Save location would be great. |
| 2024-10-14 |  | | compared to iOS, sadly this app is missing the other half of its feature set: boarders. I used phonto as much for the fonts as I did for adding boarders to a photo, and on my iPhone I liked phonto because it allowed me to give non-square photos a square boarder, right in the same clean, minimal app I'd add text on. Other apps are overwhelming.. and I love phonto for it's minimal and to the point design. But please, bring the boarders to android. |
| 2024-08-18 |  | | cool but would be better if the grid could cover the canvas so it eases placement of items, overall an awesome app just the grid is my problem, would be nice if you could adjust the size of the squares as well, I also forgot to mention if you could put some form of layering items such as bring to front send to back thanks! |
| 2024-07-29 |  | | I loved this App, but it lost a few things. For one, you used to be able to add photos and had the choice for them to appear as any letter of the alphabet and a multitude of shapes. That was so cool. I made a lot of creative arts this way, but no longer. There were once templates, filters, more fonts. WTH? |
| 2023-12-13 |  | | This app is a great tool for creating simplistic thumbnails for YouTube or just creating memes for your friends. You can import any font you've downloaded and use it. I gave it 4 stars because while your able to save edits and return to them later, there is no auto save feature which means you'll have to remember to save your image as a project before you leave the app. Also, I've not seen a way to auto center text, which can be a bit annoying. It is a great app for being free and I'm happy! |
| 2023-08-12 |  | | Great! Until recently... Don't know what happened but in the last few days, it only gives me 3 album options to choose from to edit. Phonto used to access my entire phone album but now I'd have to search by date! And there's very few settings to check to try and fix this, if at all. I uninstalled it then reinstalled it but no dice. It's basically now unusable. |
| 2023-01-26 |  | | This is one of my favorite apps except lately it hasn't really been working like I will go and put my font onto a photo and when I hit the okay button my font never shows up. So periodically I have to delete the app for a while and then re load so that it'll work for a little bit and then it stops working. It's very frustrating because I love this app so much.. |
| 2022-06-12 |  | | I've always loved this app! It's my go-to for adding text to everything! I still like it but ever since I got a new phone, not only did I lose the hundreds of fonts that I've downloaded but also all of the drafts I've had saved. And I paid for the ad free version on my old phone but that didn't transfer over so I had to pay for it all over again. Which isn't a huge deal but I just wish I would have been able to retrieve my lost fonts and drafts. |
| 2022-03-26 |  | | This is actually a REALLY good text editing app!! It has simple controls that allow for both precision and accuracy in text placement, and a bunch of non-obscure fonts, (including the wii sports font.) The ads aren't super in the way, only showing up after you're done with a project or as a small banner. I fully reccomend it! :D |
| 2022-02-06 |  | | Love the app. BUT, there is a fatal flaw. Please fix it. When writing text out, it doesn't wrap around to scale. It takes forever to manually correct it. So frustrating. Otherwise you need more cursive script fonts, especially vertical. Hard to see some of the texts at times. But the app is still glorious. |
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