Unicode Pad vs Coptic Keyboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Unicode Pad
Access and copy thousands of Unicode characters to use in any app. Create custom keyboards for frequently used symbols and share them with friends. Search characters by name, codepoint, or glyph, and view detailed descriptions.
- Copy characters to clipboard
- Customizable keyboards
- Share custom keyboards
- Search characters by name/codepoint/glyph
- View extended character descriptions
- Thousands of symbols available
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Note: This app supports only in-app custom keyboards! For a fancier version which also supports iOS 8 and later custom keyboards, check out the Unicode Pad Pro app! • Tested on latest iOS 11 • Support for Unicode 11 standard • Copy characters to clipboard for use in other apps, like web, mail, chat, notes… practically any iOS app! • Notepad with customizable keyboards, for your often-used characters and for copying several characters at once. Great for casual writing, too! • Share your custom keyboards with your friends! • Send mail and tweets right from within the app! • Huge selection of symbols (thousands), in fact all that are available on your device. Database itself actually contains data for all Unicode characters (over 100,000), but only glyphs available in iOS system font are actually visible. • Quick acces to many groups of commonly used symbols! • Search for characters by name, hexadecimal codepoint or glyph! Find similar and related characters instantly! • Streamlined design, specifically optimized for each device. Support for all device orientations and Retina display. • Support for Backspace, New line, Shift and Alternate special keys on custom keyboards. • Custom keyboard sizes up to 6x16=96 keys. • View extended character descriptions on Wikipedia, right inside the app! This works particularly great for emoticons! • One universal application works on iPhone, iPod and iPad! • Reference booklet of characters available on modern computers! Paper Unicode maps are over 1000 pages long! • Developers: see which characters are available on your iOS device! • Great for scientific, mathematical and physics notation, handles many superscripts, subscripts and other symbols! • Excellent for phonetic notation! • Perfect for writing Unicode poetry! • Awesome for making interesting app names! • HTML entity names for relevant characters • UNIHAN english definitions for CJK ideograms for many characters • Flick left and right for next and previous characters in detail view • Affordable price!
Coptic Keyboard
This keyboard app offers a native system experience for typing Coptic script on iOS devices. It includes customizable settings for auto-correction, capitalization, and font display, supporting both light and dark modes.
- Native system keyboard integration
- Supports Bohairic and Sahidic dialects
- Customizable auto-correction and capitalization
- Light and Dark Mode support
- Antinoou font display option
- '.' shortcut for punctuation
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This fully integrated Coptic Keyboard was designed for iPhone devices to look and function like a native system keyboard. Supports Light/Dark Mode. App has control settings for – Auto-Capitalization – Auto-Correction – Auto-Jinkim – Enable Caps Lock – Antinoou Font Display – ”.” Shortcut. Optimized for all iPhones
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Coptic Keyboard at Free against Unicode Pad's $2.99. Coptic Keyboard also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 74%). Unicode Pad's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Coptic Keyboard is free to download; Unicode Pad costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Coptic Keyboard holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Unicode Pad's written reviews are positive against 100% of Coptic Keyboard's.
Unicode Pad ships an update every 3 months, Coptic Keyboard every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Unicode Pad | Coptic Keyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (8 ratings) | 4.9 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ziga Kranjec | Mina D. Makar |
Customer experience
Unicode Pad
Coptic Keyboard
Bugs and requests
Unicode Pad
Reported bugs
17 issues- App crashes when selecting notepad
- App crashes on startup
- Scrolling is laggy
- Custom keyboards take time to load
- Characters not appearing on keyboard after adding
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- Some symbols don't copy properly (show as boxes)
- App won't update
- App becomes very slow after updates
- Custom keyboards are hard to see after update
- Buttons disappear
- Detail window cannot be closed
- Glyph description length exceeds screen
- App freezes and requires device reset
- Favorites/copy buttons sometimes go invisible
- Cannot get to clipboard to post to other apps
- App doesn't work with Facebook
- Characters not displayed (show as squares)
Requested features
15 requests- Ability to add keyboards to other apps
- More space for custom keyboards
- Integration with iOS keyboard
- Add backspace/delete/return keys to custom keyboards
- Ability to rearrange keys on custom keyboards
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- Ability to remove custom keys while on the keyboard
- Sort Unicode blocks numerically
- Save/swap out keyboards from within the app
- Option to hide iOS incompatible characters
- Add space bar to custom keyboard layouts
- Copy as HTML option
- Precise selection and editing features
- Macros for multiple keystrokes
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
Coptic Keyboard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Unicode Pad
No in-app purchases
Coptic Keyboard
No in-app purchases
Questions
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