Cicero vs Nan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cicero
Explore Unicode characters with intuitive views for blocks, planes, and graphemes. Inspect detailed character properties and search by code point or name. This tool offers a comprehensive way to understand Unicode data.
- Block and Plane View
- Grapheme View
- Character Property Inspection
- Search by Code Point
- Search by Unicode Name
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Cicero provides a few intuitive ways to access the Unicode® character data: Block and Plane View - Browse through Unicode blocks and planes Grapheme View - Segregate user-perceived characters into code points Character View - Inspect detailed character properties Search - Search characters with code point or Unicode name * Unicode is a registered trademark of Unicode, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
Nan
This tool captures and decrypts network traffic at the TCP/IP layer, offering advanced features for detecting TLS connections and WebSocket traffic. It allows selective capture of HTTPS traffic to prevent application malfunctions.
- TCP/IP layer capture
- System proxy bypass
- TLS connection detection
- HTTPS capture and decryption
- WebSocket decryption
- IP packet assembly
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Why You Need This: - Capture on TCP/IP layer, NOT system proxy. Avoid some applications not going through the proxy - Detect TLS connection and ALPN - Only capture and decrypt HTTPS the address you specify, to prevent certain applications from malfunctioning due to addresses that cannot be captured by packet capture. - Also support decrypt WebSocket How it works: - This app captures all IP packets (IP layer) - Next assemble into TCP stream (TCP layer) - Probe TLS connections and ALPN information to help you determine if there's any possibility of packet capture. - Next assemble into HTTPS/WebSocket packet (Application layer) if you MITM it
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Cicero at $2.99 against Nan's $34.99. Cicero also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 89%). Nan's advantage is chart position (#99 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Cicero costs $2.99 and Nan $34.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Cicero against 4.5 for Nan. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 8 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Cicero's written reviews are positive against 89% of Nan's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cicero | Nan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $34.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (10 ratings) — better | 4.5 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 88.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #99 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 177 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Yan Li | TxThinking, Inc. |
Customer experience
Cicero
Nan
In-app purchases
Cicero
No in-app purchases
Nan
No in-app purchases
