Phonto - Text on Photos

Name: Phonto - Text on Photos
Rating: 4.8 (120844 reviews)
Author: youthhr

By: youthhr

Photo & Typography

Features & Capabilities

Phonto is a simple app that adds text to pictures with over 400 fonts, font install support, and extensive text styling options. It offers color, gradients, stroke, shadow, background color, rotation, kerning, line spacing, curved and perspective text, and decorative items. You can share edited photos to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and install fonts from your computer. This page highlights features, language support, and font installation steps to help new users get started.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Photography Design

By:

youthhr

Rating:

4.80

(120,844) 74 new ratings

Version:

4.9.52 Last updated: 2026-05-03

Version code:

885195609

Creation date:

2011-05-24

Compatible devices:

Size:

66.00MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-05

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 3,056 ▼ 9

Other rankings

#8 in text-to-image keyword 10 ▼ 7

#9 in photo keyword 21 ▼ 1

#12 in text editor keyword 18 ▼ 3

#14 in font keyword 59 ▼ 3

#72 in picture keyword 35 ▼ 8

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Other platforms

Phonto - Text on Photos (v1.7.129)

60,074,442 4.73

(565,321)

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Developed by:

youthhr

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/phonto-text-on-photos/id438429273

Website:

https://phon.to/download

User Reviews

Phonto is praised for being intuitive, reliable, and versatile for typography and social-media graphics. Recurrent drawbacks cited by multiple reviewers include disruptive ads, a challenging initial onboarding experience, and save/export quality problems (PNG export failures and grainy outputs). These trade-offs shape its usefulness for creators who value quick text-on-photo workflows but are frustrated by export glitches and ad interruptions.

Pros

Intuitive and user-friendly interface.
Long-time reliable app loved by creators with ongoing improvements.
Rich font library and easy typography customization (download fonts or use built-in fonts).
Versatile tool for creating social-media assets like collages, thumbnails, and flyers.

Cons

Intrusive, long ads that disrupt workflow and appear frequently, even when saving or creating icons.
Onboarding could be clearer; initial learning curve and some features (like text wrapping) are not intuitive at first.
Export/save quality issues, including PNG export not working and saved images appearing grainy or blurry.

Recent reviews

Amazing app but why’d you remove the underline feature from the style section? BRING IT BACK PLEASE WE NEED IT!!!!!

by Un*****, 2026-05-24

used this all consistently throughout the years. signature style

by Ge*****, 2026-05-22

I actually bought the premium version, but if you’re looking to do what this app primarily is for, it can be done even with the free version. This app was and is truly a blessing for me.