# Phonto - Text on Photos

> Photo & Typography

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id438429273](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id438429273)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id438429273`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** youthhr
- **Category:** Photo & Video
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (122,075 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.9.57
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-17
- **First published:** 2011-05-24
- **Size:** 73 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-23
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/phonto-text-on-photos/id438429273)
- **Website:** [https://phon.to/download](https://phon.to/download)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://phon.to/privacy](https://phon.to/privacy)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #3,110 — Overall
- #5 — text-to-image
- #11 — photo
- #12 — text editor
- #13 — font
- #56 — hd images

## Review summary

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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id438429273)