Fontinator 4+

So, the way the app is currently setup is a just not intiuvite. It’s not a just works solution. After many attempts it took at least an hour to get all of my custom fonts in. There seems to be multiple issues. One is with batch opening. The profile will corrupt if the user selects more than 8 fonts at a time to install. If you selected all of your fonts it will not work. Then the user has to go in and manually delete them one by one. So the app in it’s current form is really a nightmare to work with. There must be batch delete added in, and you guys have to figure out the limition on batch importing with the profile. Also, the profile in general is very wonky. Sometimes it appears, sometimes it appears for 2 seconds than disapears and has to be downloaded again. If a user wants to get their fonts into Vectonator they have to do it in groups of 8 or less and download a new profile every time. This is counterintutive, and extreamly combersome. Not something that matches with the high qulaity of Vectornator. Not something that matches with the platform as a whole, and def not something that makes sense in 2021 on an iPad Pro. This should be a streamlined simple quick solution. Other apps are setup so fonts are linked to files in iCloud Drive or even on the native hard drive. In other apps you can pull all of your fonts into a custom folder in files and it just works. The app should really be setup like this.

Overall, the concept for this app is simple and excellent - install your custom fonts (.ttf, etc.) quickly and easily and use them across your iPad OS apps like Office 365 and others.

I would easily give this app 5 stars if there were fewer bugs and unexplained errors. For instance, iOS has no problem with Japanese fonts, but this app glitches out and shows glyphs instead of the fonts for some reason. Also, more commonly, there will be something that the app doesn’t like about a font file or font family and it will just say “this profile cannot be downloaded”. This is particularly problematic when installing multiple new fonts at a time as you don’t know which font is the problem and have to go back through and install them one at a time to figure out which is the problem.

Again, great concept and big props to the dev team for all their efforts on this. Just need a little more polish/intuitive UI in order to become a top-tier option.

I wanted to use Vectornator since another vector app I like is no longer being supported. The problem is that I need to be able to import fonts into the app for my design projects, and Fontinator is an awful answer to that issue.

I tried importing just one font for a project that I had previously imported into Vectornator. Fontinator created the profile for the font, and the iPad believes that the profile has been installed successfully. However, Vectornator still can’t see the imported font, and Fontinator still says that the font needs to be installed. I have double- and triple-checked my steps. This whole process is counterintuitive anyway, as other design apps on iPadOS allow us to import fonts from within the app, rather than having us use a separate app that then makes us install profiles in the main Settings. Maybe that’s why there haven’t been any Fontinator updates in a couple years…

Whatever the reason, this poor excuse for a font installation path is a dealbreaker. I want to like Vectornator, but the app is useless to me if I can’t add the fonts I need. Unless y’all can come up with a better font import path ASAP, I guess I’m about to uninstall both apps to regain that storage space on my iPad.