Fonto

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Overview

About Fonto

Fonto is an online XML editor, designed for people with no knowledge of XML or any other technology that comes with structured content authoring. With Fonto, the creation of structured content authoring is simple. The system lets subject matter experts create, edit and review mission-critical documents.

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Fonto Features

Features of Fonto
Audience Targeting
Campaign Management
Content Library
Customizable Branding
Customizable Templates
Editorial Calendar
Publish Scheduling
Reporting & Statistics
SEO Management
Social Media Integration

Customer Reviews

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Arnaud D.

Arnaud D.

Verified User

Computer Software · 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Our experience as an integrator for publishing industry

We are integrating Fonto for our customers in publishing industry mainly. Our solutions are about creating and publishing complex contents with collaborative editing, cross content links management, ...

What they liked
  • We appreciate a lot the user experience of the solution, with quick adoption from users, no training necessary
  • Also the user cannot break the XML structure, the software always maintains consistency
  • As an integrator, we appreciate the customization possibilities of the solution
Room for improvement

As an integrator, the only con is that the programming language is very specific to the solution

Joe J.

Verified User

Computer Software · 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Fonto Implementation Partner

Our customers see the value Fonto brings to their organizations through reduced work by writing teams to manually recreate content from subject matter experts that were previously provided to them in non-XML formats such as Word and PDF. Now, the SMEs and writers are all working in the same format (XML), although the SMEs never actually see the XML. As an implementation partner of Fonto, Oberon Technologies recognizes the value of a solid software product and strong product support team.

What they liked
  • The Fonto Editor and Review products are very flexible in terms of ability to architect and support our various customer needs and integrations with various content management systems, primarily through configuration
  • The UI is clean, intuitive and requires little to no training for end users to begin creating XML-based content without knowing they are working with structured content
  • As an implementer of Fonto products, especially integrating with PTC Windchill, the support team is phenomenal and goes beyond any other support team I've worked with to resolve questions and provide examples when possible
Room for improvement

Most of the initial "cons" we felt were more related to our development team learning how to best implement the software and not necessarily try to emulate the features of more traditional XML authoring tools

Richard S.

Verified User

Computer Software · 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Fonto makes XML easy!

We need a new web-based XML editor to integrate into our software, and Fonto is "best-of-breed" for this purpose.

What they liked

An intuitive web interface for editing XML content is not easy to implement, and Fonto does it well

Room for improvement

Could use some low-level XML editing when the GUI doesn't let you do specific things

Switched From

Xopus is no longer supported, and uses older technology

Why they chose it

"It seemed easier to integrate, and has a more attractive interface and API"

Ralph E.

Verified User

Information Technology and Services · 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Fonto Makes Working with XML Convenient than Most XML Editors I've Tried

Verified reviewer

What they liked
  • First off, because Fonto is cloud-based, it's always accessible so far there is an internet connection which means you can access and work on your files even if you are not with your PC
  • The interface of Fonto looks extremely neat and that boosts focus when I make use of it for editing
  • Fonto actually simplifies working with XML files even if you are a complete newbie to markup languages
  • You can actually annotate sections of your XML document by just clicking on add comment and this makes collaboration more efficient between authors
  • Also, managing metadata in Fonto is quite easy and as straightforward as can be and you can also move content over from other editors while the formatting stays intact
  • There's almost nothing that you can do in most editors that you can't do in Fonto
Room for improvement
  • There's nothing that I have a problem with regarding Fonto

Yordan U.

Verified User

Information Technology and Services · 10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

An outstanding browser-based XML editor for collaborative authoring

Verified reviewer

What they liked
  • The attention to detail from the user experience perspective is outstanding
  • Fonto Editor has a streamlined UI that users love
  • Fonto Editor enables the creation of some of the most complex documentation at VMware by enabling subject matter experts to participate in the content creation process
Room for improvement

Fonto Editor is a platform that requires a degree of investment in terms of developer skills, but that pays off in the final product

Switched From

Better performance and feature set in Fonto.

Sesi Bhushan S.

Verified User

Information Technology and Services · 10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 6 months
May 28, 2026

Fonto Made Quantum leap in Structured Authoring

Verified reviewer

What they liked
  • Fonto Editor is highly sophisticated serverless web-based XML authoring solution
  • I have experience with desktop-based XML authoring solutions for nearly 2 decades
  • I enjoyed working on Fonto configuration, and authoring features
  • I particularly like Fonto's ability to integrate with any CMS via APIs
Room for improvement
  • Fonto should offer a self-service based schema configuration experience
  • For instance, it should automatically configure authoring experience based on a set of questions to admins
  • Esencially, implement the CVK flowchart workflow using an user interface, let user specify what they want for each element, and Fonto should auto-generate the experience configuration, operations, context menu, and structure menu based on the element hierarchy defined in the schema
  • https://documentation
  • fontoxml
  • com/editor/latest/cvk-flowchart-26570162
  • html
Why they chose it

"1. Serverless 2. Moderan Authoring User Experience 3. Flexible Configuration"

Rene T.

Verified User

Computer Software · 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
May 28, 2026

Great xml editor software suite

Fonto is a great asset to our software platform

What they liked
  • Full functional, highly customizable, great support
Room for improvement
  • UI integration when using the optional modules is still being optimized
Switched From

End of Life

Why they chose it

"Better functionality and support"

Thomas W.

Verified User

Internet · 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
May 28, 2026

Most intuitive XML Editor of all time!

We and all our clients love the way you work with Fonto.

What they liked

Superintuitive User Interface, high speed editing, great change tracking, granular document handling

Room for improvement

Usage on smartphones could be a bit more intuitve, but this is a use case that is rarely asked from our customers

Andreas R.

Verified User

Pharmaceuticals · 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months
May 28, 2026

An amazing tool coupled with great support

Overall, the experience was great.

What they liked
  • Makes it very easy to configure and develop an editor for xml documents
  • The editor can easily be configured with many default widgets
  • Because the software is based is react, it makes it very easy to transition to for anyone accustomed to modern js-frontend frameworks
Room for improvement
  • The documentation sometimes lags behind the latest features and I would have liked to see more examples
  • However, this is largely overshadowed by the amazing customer support that fonto provide; not only do they provide fast response to questions they also help debug difficult problems

James K.

Verified User

Computer Software · 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months
May 28, 2026

The most user-friendly XML / component based authoring software we found

Verified reviewer

What they liked
  • Extremely easy to use, intuitive (e
  • g
  • single return in a bullet list gives you a new bullet, second return goes back to normal para, just like MS Word)
Room for improvement

Honestly it is hard to find something negative to say - perhaps only the fact that some menu items are on different tabs (although that works like MS Office as well) but it's really a very minor point

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