FontBook™ Typeface Compendium App Reviews

Great interface, easy to use. Love the samples they give in context and ability to write custom text. Worth way more than .99! Only wish I had enough money to buy the fonts I like :-/

The app itself is awesome, it has a very useful and beautiful user interface, but the big problem is that when scrolling through the fonts, the app gets too laggy, almost unusable, even on my iPad 3! Please fix it!

I try not to use the word "awesome" lightly, but its definitely applicable to this app. I work in the creative/design industry and this has already become an indispensable tool for me. Easy to navigate, huge amount of typefaces, and it looks great.

This app is encyclopedic and beautifully designed. Thanks to the makers for selling this at $.99. Love the way it organizes the material. Wow.

This app is pretty amazing and a clear, beautiful library of fonts. Only feature i would request is font detection via camera. This would be extremely handy for those random fonts we find in prints and dont know what they are off the top of our heads.

Well I spent 6 bucks for it when it first released--its kind of clean and pretty, especially the screenshots on iTunes. I had some fun with it and was tempted to rate it 5 stars. But when I started to actually try to use it for work 8 months after my purchase, I find the app laggy on the 3rd-gen iPad, the samples way too small on the box view, and that it requires 5 to 6 taps to do almost any simple task. Worst of all, I spent half an hour trying to change the sample text from Rag to something else just to find out later that its not possible--so I was stuck with screens filled with 200 boxes saying Rag, as if they think Im obsessed with Rag.

This app is utterly useless because of its slow response time between clicks./swipes. You feel as if you have a 56K modem and attempting to download an encyclopedias worth of information. You have to page through 6 pages to see each fonts information rendering it impossible to see many fonts within a reasonable period of time. After spending a couple of hours stumbling through its interface I found one sample font that summed up my experience; The Teebrush font displayed the word "Painful" and thats what it is when you use this app.

A good collection of fonts is buried within a clunky interface with poor performance. You are expected to wade through a wall of tiny previews of the word "Rag" and click through several times before you can actually see what the font looks like.

Still incredibly slow on 3rd gen iPad. For an app that pretty much only shows you fonts, this is ridiculous.

As a designer, I find this to be an extremely useful app. I am on an ipad2, and it works great. Its fast enough, its well-designed, it allows you to compare fonts with each other with your own text. You can search in all the ways designers search for fonts online. And it works offline, too. There is a learning curve, but if you tap around enough, you will figure it out. Its definitely worth the price.

Whats the point of a font app if you cant see what the typeface looks like if you want specific letter forms. Dont buy

Great app and great content, but Very slow on iPad 3!

Worth every cent. Once you get the hang of the navigation, it just gets deeper and deeper. Excellent reference resource.

App is horribly slow on iPad 3 (The New iPad), and slow on iPad mini. Wish to do a My own named Font Collections (not just starred fonts) in future versions.

Pros - Its the only app I can find that lets me browse categorized fonts - Attractive interface (though a little peculiar at times) - Offers several different ways/sizes when previewing fonts Cons - Very slow on my iPhone 4 - Takes up a minimum of 214 mb after install (Thats with the cache at the lowest setting, 5 mb) - You can save fonts to "favorites," but you cant label them or categorize them further (I would love to see either of these features in an update) - Does not follow Vox-ATypl classification (though that isnt necessarily a bad thing)

Pretty but useless. Youll find no use for this app unless you know the font name beforehand. One cannot flick trough the fonts as a book (despite the name). Lots of tiles wich show little, useless or rather no information at all. And now it got awfully slow

The iPhone version allows setting sample text which is hugely useful and speeds up the process of reviewing possible fonts for specific content. PLEASE add this feature to the iPad version.

The UI is annoying and the content is crap. This app was promptly deleted.

The update causes constant crashes. App opens fine, but doing anything causes it to crash, luckily I still had the previous version to downgrade to.

I love to have this many fonts to look for when I need something. But the looking for fonts and the trying out fonts in form of one line sample text is restricted to the tiny screen of an iPhone. Why are these features not available for the iPad? When will this feature be available. Was hoping that version 4 would solve this.