T9 Dial vs Nod
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
T9 Dial
This app provides a T9 dial pad for rapid contact searching. It supports various search methods including full and abbreviated spelling, numbers, company names, and job titles. Customize your typing experience with adjustable keyboard height, styles, and handedness options.
- T9 contact search
- Full, abbreviated, and number search
- Company and job title search
- Adjustable keyboard height
- Left/right-handed keyboard modes
- Multiple keyboard styles
- Customizable icon colors
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A T9 dial pad that finds the contact you need in as few as three taps. Type the first letters of a name or a fragment of a number and matches appear instantly. Launches fast, every time. Works with names in your own script too, from Chinese and Japanese to Cyrillic, Arabic, Thai, and Indian scripts. FIND ANYONE FAST • Names in many scripts: Pinyin, Zhuyin, and Cantonese for Chinese; kana for Japanese; initial consonants for Korean; native-letter keypads for Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Thai; Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, and other Indian scripts, plus Georgian and Armenian, by their Latin spelling • Search by full name, initials, or part of a phone number • Search by company and job title. Pro extends search to notes, address, and email DIAL FROM WIDGETS • Interactive T9 dial pad widget on the Home Screen. No need to open the app • Lock Screen quick-dial widget. One tap to call • Quick-dial widget for your most frequent contacts BUILT FOR ONE HAND • Switch between left-handed, right-handed, and full-width keyboards with a swipe • Adjustable keyboard height and multiple keyboard styles • Two-column layout on iPad with the keypad docked left or right • Vibration when the call connects MAKE IT YOURS • Themes, icon colors, and Dark Mode • Custom key sounds and haptics PRO • No ads • Unlimited outgoing call log • Private contacts, plus contact backup and restore • Family plan shares Pro with up to 5 family members NOTES • iOS does not let third-party apps read the system call log. The app shows only calls placed from within the app. • Network access is used only to upload crash logs (device model, OS version, time of use, nothing else). Turning it off does not affect the app. SUBSCRIPTION Pro is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase, each in an individual or family plan. • Prices may vary by country or region; • Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the purchase is confirmed; • Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends; • Manage or cancel subscriptions anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://t9dial.web.app/TERMS%20OF%20USE.html Privacy Policy: https://t9dial.web.app/PRIVACY%20POLICY.html
Nod
Easily plot outdoor spaces and display them on a map or export for sharing. Record real-life locations, compare them on a map, and perform length and area calculations. Optimized for touch screens with high accuracy drawing tools.
- Plot outdoor spaces on a map
- Draw geographic data directly on maps
- Import and visualize geographic data
- Perform length and area calculations
- Share data in various formats
- High accuracy drawing with loupe tool
- Tamper-evident data history
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Nod uses the GPS capability of an iOS device to make it simple to plot outdoor spaces and display this on a map or export to share with others. It is for anybody who has a need to record a real life location on a map or compare locations on a map back to real life. This could be farmers, builders, scientists, archaeologists, systems developers or anybody with an interest in maps. At a glance: + Use your position on the ground to mark areas of a map + Draw and create geographic data straight onto a map or satellite image + Import and visualise geographic data + Use the app to perform length and area calculations + Use on screen 'rulers' to quickly measure real life features + Tamper evident + Share geographic data with others in various formats + Optimised for touch screen devices Nod also shows the users location in relation to the survey making it possible to make virtual boundaries and perimeters, for example to mark out a physical boundary where is is difficult or not possible to remain within line of sight of marker posts. Data can be imported in the common open source GeoJSON format. Geographic data in the app is made up of multiple layers. Layers group together collections of features. A feature represents some real life geographical feature as a list of coordinates. Features can be line strings, polygons, points and so on. These features are then drawn onto a map. Polygons can contain inner polygons which are 'cut outs'. Individual points in features can be adjusted with high accuracy using the app 'draw' mode. Draw mode adds a 'loupe' to make accuracy easy on a touch screen device by magnifiying the map underneath it. The loupe also provides access to the ruler system. Rulers can be added to the map to mark out temporary measurements and angles. They are guides and are not included when data is exported. Complex and accurate features can be created by combining multiple features and applying geometric operations such as difference, xor and others. Messy data sources can be processed and made orderly with convex and concave hull operations The Nod file format (.nod) stores a complete hashed history of the actions taken to create it. This means it has a complete undo history but also provides confidence that the data is as the original creator intended. Exported data in file formats that do not supoport this facitilty should use other means to prove authenticity. Data can be exported in GeoJSON, CSV, HTML, COLLADA (DAE) formats. COLLADA files can be used when generating data for scaled 3D modelling applications. Please note: The app only uses the device GPS system when it is in use. In addition the GPS system is manually operated in order to conserve power. The user also has control over the desired accuracy of the GPS to further reduce power consumption if necessary. When activated and on maximum accuracy the app will draw considerable power as a result of GPS updates. Care should therefore be taken to reduce energy consumption when this is an issue.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nod at none against T9 Dial's 8. Nod also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). T9 Dial's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (18 vs 2). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. T9 Dial sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.29 per month. Nod asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.4 for T9 Dial against 3.5 for Nod. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: T9 Dial has 18 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of T9 Dial's written reviews are positive against 100% of Nod's.
T9 Dial ships an update every 9 days, Nod every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | T9 Dial | Nod |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (18 ratings) | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 帅 刘 | Robert Atherton |
Customer experience
T9 Dial
Nod
In-app purchases
T9 Dial
- Pro · Monthly$0.291 Month
- Pro · Family · Monthly$0.491 Month
- Pro · Annual$1.991 Year
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- Pro · Family · Annual$2.991 Year
- Top and Bottom$0.99
- Pro · Lifetime$4.49
- Pro · Family · Lifetime$4.99
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- Pro · Family · Lifetime$8.99
Nod
No in-app purchases









