Emoji for Message vs Text Faces for Texting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Emoji for Message
Enhance your messages with a vast collection of emojis, text faces, and symbols. Access over 1000 emoticons, 200 text faces, and thousands of unique symbols to personalize your communication.
- 1000+ Emoticons
- 200+ Text Faces
- 2000+ Symbols
- 50000+ Characters
- Extra Keyboards
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This app gives you extra keyboards with emojis and symbols. √ Over 1000 Emoticons √ Over 200 Text Faces √ Over 2000 Symbols √ Over 50000 Characters
Text Faces for Texting
Access a vast collection of ASCII emoticons and emoji art to enhance your text messages. Express yourself with over 10,000 unique creations.
- Over 10,000 emojis
- ASCII emoticons
- Emoji art
- Enhance text messages
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This app gives you extra emojis. √ over 10000 emojis
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Verdict
Emoji for Message and Text Faces for Texting are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Emoji for Message against 4.7 for Text Faces for Texting. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6K and 2.1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Emoji for Message's written reviews are positive against 88% of Text Faces for Texting's.
Emoji for Message ships an update monthly, Text Faces for Texting every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Emoji for Message | Text Faces for Texting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (6K ratings) | 4.7 (2.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.8% of reviews | 88.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6K — better | 2.1K |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 山 钟 | ShuMei Liang |
Customer experience
Emoji for Message
Text Faces for Texting
User reviews
Emoji for Message
From 6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Used for videos
- ✨ Cute and free
- 🎨 Lots of symbols and languages
- 📱 Easy to use keyboard
- 💯 Amazing and functional
Room to improve
- 🤔 Needs more customization
- 🐛 Stopped working for some users
- 🔍 Hard to find specific emojis
- ⚠️ Unskippable ads
Text Faces for Texting
From 2.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Perfect version with no ads or paywalls
- 👍 Massive selection of emojis
- 👍 Easy to add to keyboard and use anywhere
- 👍 Convenient and cute
- 👍 Organized and has a wide variety of emojis
Room to improve
- 🐛 Keyboard doesn't show up or can't be added to settings
- 🐛 Disables autocorrect
- 🐛 Randomly disappears from keyboard options
- 🐛 Lags and crashes at times
Bugs and requests
Emoji for Message
Reported bugs
2 issues- Keyboard not showing up for some users
- Issues with certain apps/platforms
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to submit custom characters
- Implement a favorites or recents section
- Integrate keyboard directly into messaging apps
- Add dark mode option
Text Faces for Texting
Reported bugs
2 issues- Keyboard doesn't work on iOS 18
- Doesn't work with Twitter
Requested features
3 requests- Add a delete/backspace button for emojis
- Allow users to add their own emojis and create custom folders
- Add a 'favorites' section for quick access to frequently used emojis
In-app purchases
Emoji for Message
No in-app purchases
Text Faces for Texting
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Emoji for Message free?
Is Text Faces for Texting free?
Which has better reviews, Emoji for Message or Text Faces for Texting?
Do Emoji for Message or Text Faces for Texting have ads?
Which is updated more often, Emoji for Message or Text Faces for Texting?
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