Banner vs Dial Plate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Banner
Create custom LED-matrix-style displays for messages, time, date, tweets, and music information. Personalize your display with adjustable speeds, orientations, and element styles. Ideal for unique visual notifications and information sharing.
- Customizable messages
- Display time and date
- Show tweet feeds
- Display music info
- Adjustable scroll/blink speed
- Customizable LED appearance
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Banner is an LED-matrix-like display with which you can show custom messages. The following items can be shown: - 5 user-defined messages - 35 types of symbol characters - Date (3 formats) - Time (3 formats) - Bluesky (3 defined feeds based on user's timeline or keyword search) - Music (Artist, Song, Album) The application has the following settings: - Scroll speed - Blink speed - Landscape-only mode - Upside-down display - Mirror display - Double-tap editing - Sleep disable - Character size (3 sizes) - Element (LED) size (3 sizes) - Element (LED) shape (6 shapes) - Element (LED) color (Hue, Saturation) - Element (LED) color randomization Note - Bluesky posts will be updated every minutes or every posts displayed. - "Banner Basic" is a free version with ads; "Banner" and "Banner Extreme" are paid versions with no ad. - "Banner Extreme" has a little bit different from the others on the style and the speed.
Dial Plate
Experience a blast from the past with a retro-style rotary dialer. This app accurately dials telephone numbers and allows you to call them, all while providing an authentic 20th-century feel.
- Retro rotary dialer interface
- Original sound effects
- Accurate dialing
- Call dialed numbers
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Turn back in time! With the rotary dialer in retro-style you can send your iPhone back in the 20th century! Features: • original sound effect • accurate dialing of the telephone number • call of the dialed number
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Dial Plate at Free against Banner's $0.99. Dial Plate also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (95 vs 2). Banner's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 9 months). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases 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
Dial Plate is free to download; Banner costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dial Plate holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dial Plate has 95 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Banner's written reviews are positive against 75% of Dial Plate's.
Banner ships an update every 3 months, Dial Plate every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Banner | Dial Plate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.7 (95 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.9% of reviews | 74.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 95 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Masayuki Akamatsu | Dominic Rodemer |
Customer experience
Banner
Dial Plate
Bugs and requests
Banner
Reported bugs
3 issues- Text editing cursor issues
- Orientation-related bugs
- Freezing or crashing
Requested features
5 requests- More color and font options
- Ability to add symbols like heart
- Vertical scrolling or screen saver mode
- Random message playback
- Ability to manipulate individual pixels
Dial Plate
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Banner
No in-app purchases
Dial Plate
No in-app purchases
