Reverse Text vs Symbol Keyboard for Texting
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reverse Text
Easily reverse any text message to prank friends or keep your communications private. This utility allows you to quickly flip words and sentences, then share them directly to social media or copy them to your clipboard.
- Reverse messages
- Correct reversed messages
- Copy text to clipboard
- Share to Twitter
- Share to Facebook
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Have you ever tried sending texts backwards? Maybe you want to mess with a friend or keep your message secret. Well it can be a hassle to think about typing out a long sentence in reverse. Now there is an app for that! Features: • Reverse a message or correct an already reversed message • Easily copy text to clipboard • Tweet or post to Facebook from within the app Reverse text is the perfect tool for pranking a friend or just looking at words backwards. If you have any questions or would like to report a problem, email us at appsupport@fletchercreations.com or visit us at http://fletchercreations.com/apps
Symbol Keyboard for Texting
Enhance your mobile conversations with a vast library of over 50,000 unique Unicode characters and symbols. Easily integrate these special characters into your messages to make your chats more engaging and visually interesting.
- Over 50,000 characters
- Unicode symbols
- Special characters
- Enhanced mobile chatting
- Texting customization
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Symbol Keyboard improves your mobile chatting, making it more fun! Features: - Over 50000 Characters
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Reverse Text at none against Symbol Keyboard for Texting's shown. Reverse Text also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Symbol Keyboard for Texting's advantage is ratings volume (2.9K vs 26) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Symbol Keyboard for Texting holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Symbol Keyboard for Texting has 2.9K ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Reverse Text's written reviews are positive against 88% of Symbol Keyboard for Texting's.
Reverse Text ships an update every 3 months, Symbol Keyboard for Texting every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.
| Parameter | Reverse Text | Symbol Keyboard for Texting |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (26 ratings) | 4.6 (2.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 87.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 2.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Fletcher | ShuMei Liang |
Customer experience
Reverse Text
Symbol Keyboard for Texting
Bugs and requests
Reverse Text
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Symbol Keyboard for Texting
Reported bugs
3 issues- App doesn't work, need help
- iOS keeps removing keyboard access
- Recently used symbols list gets cleared
Requested features
4 requests- Add preview of each font before selection
- Organize symbols into categories or folders
- Add more font options, especially for English
- Include astrological and zodiac symbols
In-app purchases
Reverse Text
No in-app purchases
Symbol Keyboard for Texting
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Reverse Text free?
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