Symbols Explorer vs UI Tracer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Symbols Explorer
Easily find and copy SF Symbols for your development projects. Browse by category, discover related icons, and utilize multicolor options. A handy tool for enhancing app interfaces.
- Search SF Symbols
- Search related symbols
- Copy symbol name
- Browse by categories
- Multicolor support
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Features - Search SF Symbols - Search related symbols - Copy symbol name - Categories - Multicolor
UI Tracer
This app allows developers to preview various SwiftUI view styles without recompiling code. It offers comparisons across multiple Apple platforms, including iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS, streamlining the design process.
- Preview SwiftUI view styles
- Compare across iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, macOS
- No recompilation needed
- Cross-platform code compatibility
- Extensible view library
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When you are developing your app using SwiftUI, it is really time consuming to compare all possible styles of buttons, list etc to choose one fits best. This app help you check all possible options for SwiftUI's views without recompiling. Compare how they look like on iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS and MacOS. Same code for all platforms where possible. The list of views will be extended.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Symbols Explorer at Free against UI Tracer's $2.99. Symbols Explorer also leads on ratings volume (26 vs 4). UI Tracer's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 61%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Symbols Explorer is free to download; UI Tracer costs $2.99 up front. Symbols Explorer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and UI Tracer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
UI Tracer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Symbols Explorer has 26 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Symbols Explorer's written reviews are positive against 100% of UI Tracer's.
Symbols Explorer ships an update every 2 months, UI Tracer every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Symbols Explorer | UI Tracer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shota Abe | Leonid Liadveikin |
Customer experience
Symbols Explorer
UI Tracer
In-app purchases
Symbols Explorer
- Premium (Monthly Subscription)$2.991 Month
- Premium (Yearly Subscription)$29.991 Year
- Small Tip$1.99
- Symbols Explorer Pro$1.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
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- Large Tip$9.99
UI Tracer
- Tip$0.99
- Donation$4.99
