Samsung Galaxy / Font / BASWEETY™ KOREAN FLIPFONT
REVIEW
BaSweety is one of Monotype's many almost-identical Korean FlipFont packs.
A paid Korean handwriting font that drops cleanly into Samsung's font picker. It does the one job FlipFonts do, and it is one of dozens that do it the same way.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
BaSweety™ Korean Flipfont
MONOTYPE IMAGING INC.
OUR SCORE
5.5
SAMSUNG GALAXY
★ 5.0
PRICE
Paid
Samsung’s FlipFont system is one of the quieter survivors of the early-Android personalization era. It still works, it still ships in every Galaxy phone’s font picker, and Monotype still publishes new packs into the Galaxy Store on a steady cadence. BaSweety is one of those packs — a single Korean handwriting typeface, sold as a self-contained app, that exists to add one more option to a settings menu most users open twice in the lifetime of the phone.
That framing is not a knock. A font pack is allowed to be small. The question is whether this particular one earns its slot on a shelf that already holds several dozen near-siblings from the same publisher, and the answer is a soft yes only if the specific drawing is the one you want.
FlipFont packs live or die on a single screenshot, and BaSweety’s screenshot is fine without being the one you remember. The hangul is soft and rounded, the Latin companion is unobjectionable, and the install flow is the cleanest part of the experience. Beyond that, there is not much to review — which is exactly what the format is built for.
FlipFont packs live or die on a single screenshot, and BaSweety's screenshot is fine without being the one you remember.
FEATURES
BaSweety is a single Korean handwriting typeface delivered as a Monotype FlipFont package. Install the app, open Settings then Display then Font style, and the new face appears in the picker alongside the system defaults. From that moment it renders the entire Samsung UI — menus, notifications, keyboard, the lot — until you switch back.
The face itself is a soft, slightly bouncy hangul handwriting style with a rounded Latin companion. It reads cleanly at body size in messages and contacts, and it keeps its character at large sizes on the lock screen and weather widget. There are no weight options, no italic, and no settings inside the app — opening it after install lands on a one-screen preview and a button that takes you back to the system font picker.
Pricing follows the standard Galaxy Store FlipFont script. It is a one-time paid download, regionally priced through the Galaxy Store, and tied to the Samsung account that bought it. There are no in-app purchases, no ads, and no subscription.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The plumbing works exactly as advertised. Install, switch, done — no reboot, no permissions theatre, no Knox prompts beyond the one Samsung's font framework already handles. For a category that has historically been littered with broken installers and stale APKs, that competence is the headline.
The hangul drawing is also genuinely the point. If you have spent ten minutes scrolling Monotype's Korean FlipFont catalogue looking for a handwriting face that does not feel either too childish or too corporate, BaSweety lands in the middle and stays legible. That is more than several of its siblings can say.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The bigger problem is the catalogue around it. Monotype publishes dozens of nearly indistinguishable Korean FlipFont packs — BaRosemary, AaBubble, ByNanaCoco, the 365 series — and BaSweety has no obvious reason to be the one you pick beyond personal taste in a single screenshot. There is no preview tool, no comparison view, and no way to try before you buy.
The app also does almost nothing once installed. A single static preview, a button, and that is the entire surface. Competitors in the broader Android personalization space (FontFix, iFont) at least let you sample multiple faces against your own text. A FlipFont pack is by definition a one-shot product, but a slightly richer preview would make the purchase feel less like a leap.
CONCLUSION
Buy BaSweety if you have already auditioned the Galaxy Store font picker, you specifically want a soft Korean handwriting face, and this one is the screenshot you keep coming back to. Skip it if you are font-shopping in the abstract — there are too many near-clones at the same price for any one of them to be the obvious recommendation. For most Samsung owners, the bundled system fonts plus one carefully chosen FlipFont is the right shape of library.