Comparison

Symbol Catalog vs Day Showcase

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Symbol Catalog

Features
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Find the right SF Symbol fast. Browse 7,968 symbols by category or search by name and alias. Preview weights and rendering, check availability, explore localized variants, and copy the name, image, SwiftUI code, or UIKit code. The complete catalog works offline with no account or connection required.

About

Day Showcase

Features
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Day Showcase is the demo app for Day (daybrite.dev), a framework for creating mobile and desktop apps in Rust. Each screen in the app is a demonstration of one part of the framework: Controls: buttons, switches, sliders, steppers, pickers, text fields, a multi-line editor, date and time pickers, keyboard focus, and pointer cursors. Layout: rows, columns, and layers under each fit policy, a split with a draggable divider, and a grid with spanning cells. Navigation & chrome: a push stack, tabs, menus and dialogs, the window toolbar, and a content list that opens each item in an editor. Data: a list and a tree over live models, and queries against a local store. Graphics & media: shapes, paths, gradients, and transforms on a canvas, animation, Lottie playback, bundled resources, media playback, a map, and a web view. Platform: battery and connectivity, accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer traces, HTTP requests, notifications and the app badge, speech and haptics, and files. App & tooling: localization, scripting, tweaks, a benchmark against SwiftUI, and crash reporting. The toolbar on every page has a code button that opens that page's Rust source on GitHub, so you can read the code beside the result. The star button pins a page to the top of the list, and the theme button switches the appearance. The app is translated into English, French, Arabic, and Simplified Chinese. Switching the language on the Localization page updates every page in place, and Arabic mirrors the layout. Day and this app are open source. The framework is at github.com/daybrite/day and the app's source is at github.com/daybrite/Day-Showcase. Each page in the app contains a link to the underlying source code.

Screenshots

Symbol Catalog4 screens
Day Showcase4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Day Showcase at 3 against Symbol Catalog's 1. Day Showcase also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Symbol Catalog ships an update every 3 days, Day Showcase every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Symbol Catalog versus Day Showcase: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSymbol CatalogDay Showcase
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size5 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperErminio RicciardiThe App Fair Project Inc

In-app purchases

None

Symbol Catalog

No in-app purchases

None

Day Showcase

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Symbol Catalog free?
Symbol Catalog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Day Showcase free?
Day Showcase is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Symbol Catalog or Day Showcase have ads?
Neither Symbol Catalog nor Day Showcase shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Symbol Catalog or Day Showcase?
Symbol Catalog ships an update every 3 days, and Day Showcase every 2 days. Most recently, Symbol Catalog was updated on October 16, 2026 and Day Showcase on October 10, 2026.

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