Dev Toolkit vs SymbolCraft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dev Toolkit
Access native iOS fonts, sounds, and haptic feedback for app development. Preview characters, play sounds, and feel haptics to ensure consistency and a familiar user experience in your applications.
- Access native iOS fonts
- Preview font characters
- Play system sounds
- Experience haptic feedback
- Utilize base .font options
- Ensure Apple look and feel
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Dev Toolkit 1.0 is a free app that gives you the Xcode developer quick and easy access to the iOS native fonts, sounds, haptics and base .fonts you can use in your next great app. Fonts—Dev Toolkit 1.0 displays all the fonts you can use on iPhones, iPads, and Macs in your app. Tap a font to see a summary of the characters available, and then expand to see a larger view of each individual character. Quickly determine the exact offset CGSize setting you need to position characters perfectly. Sounds—This is a summary of the system sounds available for your apps. Tap a sound to play it, or scroll through the sounds sequentially to find the perfect one. Haptics—A summary of the haptic feedback available. Tap a particular haptic to feel it! Note that current iPad models, as well as Macs, do not support haptic feedback. .fonts—Consistency with the Apple look and feel is key to delivering an intuitive user experience. Using the base .font options is one of the best ways to give a familiar user experience.
SymbolCraft
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SymbolCraft is a fast, native catalog and inspector for browsing SF Symbols and Apple system symbols on iPhone and iPad. Built for Apple-platform developers, designers, students, and curious makers, SymbolCraft helps you find the right symbol, preview how it behaves, and copy what you need without leaving your device. - Browse A Native Symbol Catalog Explore organized categories, scan a spacious adaptive grid, and move quickly through the symbol library with a touch-first interface that also feels at home on iPad. - Search By Name And Synonym Find symbols by the words you already use. Search stays fast, local, and focused so you can get from idea to symbol name with less friction. - Inspect Before You Copy Open any symbol to review its name, categories, synonyms, availability, restrictions, and accessibility details in one clear detail workflow. - Preview And Customize Experiment with rendering modes, colors, palette behavior, font weight, scale, variable values where available, and symbol animations directly on your device. - Favorite Your Regulars Save symbols you use often and return to them quickly from a dedicated favorites area. Favorites stay local and are part of the free core experience. - Copy And Export For Real Work Copy symbol names and available implementation details from the inspector, and use individual export actions where supported by the app. - Private, Offline, And Indie-Built No accounts, no analytics, no ads, no tracking, and no cloud sync. SymbolCraft is designed as a focused local tool, not a design-system manager or backend service. SymbolCraft Pro is an optional one-time lifetime upgrade for saved-work productivity, including project collections, saved symbol recipes, batch export workflows, and advanced export presets as they are available in the app. Download SymbolCraft and keep a simple, lovable, complete symbol reference with you wherever you build.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dev Toolkit at none against SymbolCraft's 1. On price, ads, 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. SymbolCraft sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dev Toolkit asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Dev Toolkit | SymbolCraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Douglas J Farmer | Remi Herbiet |
In-app purchases
Dev Toolkit
No in-app purchases
SymbolCraft
- SymbolCraft Pro$14.99









