Text Faces for Texting vs Backwood
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Backwood
Connect with local communities for sports and outdoor adventures. Discover new spots for activities like fishing, hiking, and off-roading. Organize group meetups, share locations, and compete on leaderboards.
- Local sports and outdoor community
- Discover new adventure spots
- Organize group meetups and challenges
- Interactive map with shared coordinates
- Seasonal leaderboards and rewards
- Private and public sharing options
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Your Local Social, Sports & Outdoor Community. Meet. Compete. Explore. Drop Meetups or Challenges on Local Sports Courts. Find new spots for fishing, hiking, camping, cycling, dirt biking, ATV riding, 4x4 off-roading & more. Challenge route courses with checkpoints and time leaderboards. Meet / Compete in basketball, fishing, running, biking, climbing and more. Climb seasonal leaderboards and earn rewards. Pin your favorite spots and plan group adventure or travel meetups on an interactive map. Share precise coordinates for fishing holes, trailheads, or off-road rally points. Save photos and videos to personal hotspots so you can revisit (and share) adventures anytime. Discover hidden riding routes, fishing access, campsites, hiking paths, climbing crags, and off-road lines. Search by activity, location, or distance. Build your crew. Connect with friends and like-minded adventurers. Share pins and media privately with your group or post publicly to the Backwood community. Swap insider tips, recommend trails, and coordinate group outings—seamlessly. No AI. No data brokers. No tracking. No spam. No BS. Join your local Social, Sports & Outdoors Community. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://backwood.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text Faces for Texting at none against Backwood's 7. Text Faces for Texting also leads on ratings volume (2.1K vs 13). Backwood's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Backwood sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Text Faces for Texting asks for nothing beyond the download.
Backwood holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Faces for Texting has 2.1K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Text Faces for Texting's written reviews are positive against 100% of Backwood's.
Text Faces for Texting ships an update every 3 weeks, Backwood every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Faces for Texting | Backwood |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.1K ratings) | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ShuMei Liang | Tech G Labs |
Customer experience
Text Faces for Texting
Backwood
Bugs and requests
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
Backwood
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Faces for Texting
No in-app purchases
Backwood
- Backwood Monthly Supporter$4.991 Month
- Backwood Yearly Supporter$59.991 Year
- 5,000 Backwood Credits$4.99
- 10,000 Backwood Credits$9.99
- 15,000 Backwood Credits$14.99
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- 25,000 Backwood Credits$24.99
- 50,000 Backwood Credits$49.99
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