Special Symbols vs HackerRemote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Special Symbols
Enhance your messages, emails, and social media posts with a creative touch. This app provides 21 distinct keyboards to easily insert unique characters and styles directly from your system keyboard.
- 21 unique keyboards
- Add special characters
- Creative text styles
- Bold and italic text
- Monospace and gothic fonts
- Full width text
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Special Symbols is a powerful set of keyboards that will help you to add a special touch of creativity to your messages, email and social apps! Just add 1 keyboard to your system going to Settings > General > Keyboards and you'll have 21 keyboards available in your system! • pǝʇɐʇoɹ • ⓒⓘⓡⓒⓛⓔⓓ • squared • ¢σσɭ ɭєʈʈєяȿ • åĉĉéńẗŝ ĂČČĔŃŤŚ • bold • italic • monospace • double text • gothic •ｆｕｌｌ ｗｉｄｔｈ / ＦＵＬＬ ＷＩＤＴＨ Help us to improve and continue the development rating this app 5 stars! Thank you!
HackerRemote
Control electronic projects like robots and copters using your device. Connect via Bluetooth 4.0 (BLE) to compatible modules and send key presses or receive data for display.
- Bluetooth 4.0 (BLE) connectivity
- Control robots and copters
- Virtual keys for input
- Virtual screen for output
- Send key states to BLE devices
- Receive and display strings from BLE devices
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HackerRemote is a Bluetooth 4.0 (BLE) remote app for your electronic projects, such as robots and copters. It can be used with arduino and a BLE to serial module, such as RedBearLab BLE Mini and DFRobot Bluno. This app has several virtual keys and a virtual screen. When the keys are pressed or released, the key state are autonomically sent to BLE devices. And the app can also receive strings from BLE devices and display them on the screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HackerRemote at 5.0 against Special Symbols's 3.5. HackerRemote also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.7). Special Symbols's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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
Special Symbols costs $0.99 and HackerRemote $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HackerRemote holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Special Symbols has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of Special Symbols's written reviews are positive against 50% of HackerRemote's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Special Symbols ships an update every 2 months, HackerRemote every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Special Symbols | HackerRemote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.9% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.7 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marco Petrucci | 晓忠 马 |
Customer experience
Special Symbols
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In-app purchases
Special Symbols
No in-app purchases
HackerRemote
No in-app purchases
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