Character Pad vs Symbol Keypad for Texting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Character Pad
Easily copy and paste hundreds of special characters, symbols, and Greek letters into any application. Customize your messages, emails, and documents with unique text elements. This utility app offers a simple interface for quick access to a wide variety of characters.
- Hundreds of special characters
- Greek alphabet support
- Math symbols
- Bullets and letterlike symbols
- One-tap copy to clipboard
- Paste into any application
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Character Pad gives you quick access to hundreds of beautiful and useful special characters, which you can use in any application. Simply tap on a character to copy it to your device's clipboard, open any other app, and paste it anywhere you like. Done. Easy! Customise your IMs, emails, documents and other texts with this great selection of special characters & symbols. Characters include: - Greek alphabet - Numbers - Math symbols - Bullets - Letterlike symbols - Many more! What two App Store reviewers had to say about Character Pad: "Dead easy to use and works a treat! Update with more characters some time........" - Soxcat "Fast, simple, does one thing and does it seemlessly. No more having to write ½ as 1/2. Thank you, well worth the dollar!" - Auntmarge64 Please Note: Characters will be readable from any iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac and most PCs. Some special characters may appear as question marks (?) or squares for some recipients of text messages whom use non-iPhone mobiles.
Symbol Keypad for Texting
Easily insert a vast array of Unicode symbols and characters into your text messages and other applications. Explore thousands of symbols to express your information uniquely and enhance your communication.
- Access over 50,000 Unicode characters
- Thousands of unique symbols available
- Insert symbols into texts and other apps
- Express information uniquely
- Enhance communication with special characters
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Are you interested in Unicode symbols? There are over 50,000 characters and thousands of symbols. They can express your information totally.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Symbol Keypad for Texting at none against Character Pad's 3. Symbol Keypad for Texting also leads on review sentiment (81% vs 47%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 months). Character Pad's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Character Pad sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Symbol Keypad for Texting asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Character Pad against 4.7 for Symbol Keypad for Texting. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 605 and 1.6K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 47% of Character Pad's written reviews are positive against 81% of Symbol Keypad for Texting's.
Character Pad ships an update every 6 months, Symbol Keypad for Texting fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Character Pad | Symbol Keypad for Texting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (605 ratings) | 4.7 (1.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.8% of reviews | 81.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 605 | 1.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Armchair Engineering | 山 钟 |
Customer experience
Character Pad
Symbol Keypad for Texting
User reviews
Character Pad
From 605 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ⭐ Great
- 🙌 Useful
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🔍 Essential
- 🤩 Fun
Room to improve
- 💰 Paid features
- 🔒 Limited access
- 🐛 Crashes
- 📍 Outdated
- 🚫 Removed features
Symbol Keypad for Texting
From 1.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for its niche
- 👍 Convenient and useful
- 👍 Lots of symbols to choose from
- 👍 Easy to use and set up
- 👍 Helpful for gaming and messaging
Room to improve
- 🐛 Search and navigation issues
- 🐛 Compatibility problems with new iOS updates
- 🐛 Unintuitive interface
- 🐛 Missing common symbols
- 🔋 Ads can be intrusive
Bugs and requests
Character Pad
Reported bugs
2 issues- Restore purchases not working
- Compatibility issues with new iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- More characters and symbols
- Search functionality
- Improved clipboard management
- Compatibility updates
Symbol Keypad for Texting
Reported bugs
3 issues- Keyboard not showing up properly on iPad
- Favorites and history not syncing correctly
- Some symbols not displaying correctly after iOS updates
Requested features
5 requests- Add more symbols, especially common fractions and Egyptian hieroglyphics
- Improve search functionality and navigation
- Add iPad support and optimize the UI for larger screens
- Allow customization of favorite symbols and their placement
- Provide an option to disable the dark mode
In-app purchases
Character Pad
- Full Upgrade - Reduced Price$1.99
- More Characters$2.99
- Full Upgrade - Hero Price$4.99
Symbol Keypad for Texting
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Character Pad free?
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