Facemakr vs Symbol Pad Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Facemakr
Create unique, high-quality avatars with a vast array of customizable parts. Its intuitive multitouch controls allow for precise scaling and rotation of over 600 elements, including eyes, hair, and accessories. Save your creations and express your artistic vision.
- Create custom faces and avatars
- Over 600 customizable parts
- Multi-touch scale and rotate controls
- Position and color parts
- Save created faces
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Definitely check it out. - Appolicious / AppVee Facemakr is a clever toolkit for making faces & avatars. Its intelligent multitouch controls and vast number of parts make it ideal for creating unique high quality faces, quickly. "The genius in Facemakr is that it lets you customise your faces to an infinite degree." - T3 Here's a run down of Facemakr: Multi-touch scale & rotate from over 600 parts for detailed Avatars. Position and color parts like: eyes, hair, ears, hats, piercings etc. Save faces. "I recommend Facemakr for budding avatar artistes out there, it’s easy to use and comes with a complete feature set and robust graphics engine." - Nine Over Ten "I have done a number for my family and its pretty darn good!" - app.itize.us Facemakr comes highly recommended as an essential part of anyones app collection.
Symbol Pad Pro
Access a vast library of over 50,000 unique characters and symbols, including over 10,000 text pictures. Easily find and use special characters for enhanced communication and creativity.
- Over 50,000 characters
- Over 2,000 symbols
- Over 10,000 text pictures
- Access to special characters
- Enhanced communication tools
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This app gives you extra pictures and symbols. √ Over 50000 Characters √ Over 2000 Symbols √ Over 10000 Text Pictures
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Symbol Pad Pro at 4.8 against Facemakr's 3.7. Symbol Pad Pro also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and price ($0.99 vs $2.99). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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
Facemakr costs $2.99 and Symbol Pad Pro $0.99 up front. Facemakr sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Symbol Pad Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Symbol Pad Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 35 and 115 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 70% of Facemakr's written reviews are positive against 68% of Symbol Pad Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Facemakr ships an update every 3 months, Symbol Pad Pro every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Facemakr | Symbol Pad Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (35 ratings) | 4.8 (115 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.4% of reviews — better | 67.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 35 | 115 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #73 | #28 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hawken King | 山 钟 |
Customer experience
Facemakr
Symbol Pad Pro
In-app purchases
Facemakr
- Facemakr Plus$2.99
Symbol Pad Pro
No in-app purchases
