T9 Dialer vs T9 Dial Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
T9 Dialer
This app enhances your phone's dialer with T9 keyboard functionality, allowing for quick contact searching across multiple alphabets. It offers features like speed dial, contact merging, and extensive theme customization for a personalized experience. All data is stored locally for privacy and offline use.
- T9 keyboard speed dial
- Multi-alphabet character search
- Contact merging and management
- Quick access to favorites and recents
- Export contacts as VCF
- Customizable themes and appearance
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Features: Speed dial with T9 keyboard capabilities that searches even foreign characters (including Slovenian, Cyrillic, Russian, Greek, Japanese and more...) Quick Access to Favorites and Recents, they are all on one screen. Merge similar contacts and manage them. Merge search will find similar contacts even if they are written in entirely different alphabet. Find contacts and easily call, message, or manage (edit, merge, share or delete) them with a simple swipe. Export your contacts as vcf to use with other devices. Theme support. Customize keyboard look and size. Customize the App theme color, font size, dial pad background color, buttons style, font size, and more, and save your style in Themes. Add up to three free themes, which you can easily share with other users of the app. Get more theme storage for free by watching ads. App works completely offline. All your data is safely stored on your device and it isn't sent anywhere.
T9 Dial Lite
This app provides a T9 dialer for quickly finding contacts by full spelling, short spelling, or number. It also supports searching company names and job titles, displays China number attribution, and offers customizable keyboard layouts for one-handed use. It is ad-free and requires no networking.
- T9 dialer for contact search
- Full, short, and number search
- Search company and job titles
- China number attribution
- Left/right-handed keyboard modes
- Adjustable keyboard height
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T9 Dial Lite is a T9 dial keyboard that can quickly match contacts in your contacts, start quickly without dragging, the app is small, no ads, and no networking. • Supports full spelling, short spelling, and number search for contact names. • Supports search for full spelling and simplified spelling of contact company names and job titles. • Turn on the vibration to reduce the amount of radiation. • China number attribution is displayed. • Quickly switch between left- and right-handed one-handed keyboard and full keyboard gestures to meet different scenarios. • Adjustable keyboard height to suit different screen sizes. [Notes on call history] • Due to system limitations, the system's call logs cannot be obtained, so at this stage the App can only display call logs made through this App.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: T9 Dial Lite at 58% against T9 Dialer's 0%. T9 Dial Lite also leads on rating (3.7 vs 2.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). T9 Dialer's advantage is price (Free vs $0.29) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 3 months). On ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
T9 Dialer is free to download; T9 Dial Lite costs $0.29 up front. T9 Dialer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. T9 Dial Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
T9 Dial Lite holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of T9 Dialer's written reviews are positive against 58% of T9 Dial Lite's.
T9 Dialer ships an update every 11 days, T9 Dial Lite every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | T9 Dialer | T9 Dial Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.29 |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adamantus | 帅 刘 |
Customer experience
T9 Dialer
T9 Dial Lite
In-app purchases
T9 Dialer
- Increase Themes Limit by 10$0.99
- Increase Themes Limit by 50$4.99
- Remove limit$9.99
T9 Dial Lite
No in-app purchases









