RightFont - font manager for Android

WHAT THEY DONT TELL YOU IS THAT YOU IS THEY WILL AUTO UPDATE YOUR APP THEN LOCK IT UP AFTER 1yr and FORCE YOU TO BUY A NEW Single License $59 For 1 device only ✓ One-time purchase / THIS IS A LIE!!! BEWARE ✓ Free updates within 1 year... Your better off getting FONT BASE

Updated info (original review below.) RightFont seems to have silently changed its pricing scheme. Now requires an annual fee of $60 in order to get updates and avoid unsupported versions. That seems high for this type of software. I believe that's even more than Extensis extorts its users. And to be clear, I've used these font managers for over two decades and practically speaking the only thing that updates in the software is the plugins that allow for auto-activation of fonts in the latest Adobe apps, and even that is not reliable (with Extensis versions, in my experience.) Short version: This is not bad software and has gotten a bit more stable on my machines, but is not pricey enough that I've switched to a combo of Font Book Adobe CC font manager, and am testing Typeface 3. - - - Original review: Tested it for a couple weeks and though it had some bugs we decided to use it for our small office of designers. Then larger bugs appeared. First, shared libraries: Didn't work for large libraries shared on the cloud (Dropbox). It failed to update, failed to preview, failed to activate fonts for individuals. I'd see about 10% of the fonts that should have been accessible. We tried trashing the cache, rebuilding the font libraries (many times), reinstalling the app, etc... No luck. Works fine for local, personal libraries, though. Other problems were relatively minor: Some lag after installing more than a few thousand fonts. We're still using RightFont for our group, though. It's as good as Suitcase from what we've seen. Auto-activation is a little bumpy, but that's no worse than Suitcase has always been. And RightFont is a great value. Hopefully they'll keep growing.

even though a few are still locked for some reason, this app allowed me to disable a massive number of totally unused system fonts, now my design apps sped up multiple times previewing the font list. thanks for the app

When I first downloaded it over a year ago it ran kind of sluggish and seemed to crash when reading certain font folders. Now with the latest updates and bug ffixes, that is all gone and it just works. It can read any folder it imports and does not actually activate the fonts until you tell it to. So I can see all my fonts just like looking at a typeface book. This is a graphic designer's MUST-HAVE utility. Awesome!

RightFont *used* to work great a version or two ago. Now it's unusably slow. I suspect it may have switched to Electron under the hood and that's what's causing the problem, but that's just a hunch. In any case, I have a large font library, and literally every action—from scrolling to right clicking—takes several seconds, brings up the rainbow spinner, and sends my modern Android's fans into overdrive. It's literally faster for me to navigate through the fonts in Finder than it is to go through my library in this app. (Weirdly, it seems like this is specifically limited to the library view; when in "all fonts" view it goes faster, which is counterintuitive, but ultimately unhelpful, since the whole point is filtering.) Also, the UI is pretty questionable; there's no loading state indicating that the app is working in the background, which is bad for an app that does as much work in the background as this one does. It constantly either says "no fonts to display" or fails to alter the screen when you make changes, leaving you to think nothing has happened or will happen when it has and it will. If RightFont could fix the performance issues, I'd easily upgrade this to a four-star review. But it's just unbearably slow for me right now.