Comparison

Symbol Catalog vs Shortcut Toolkit

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

Shortcut Toolkit

Features
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Shortcut Toolkit extends Apple Shortcuts with native, background actions for advanced automation. Build more dependable AI and agent workflows with tools to validate, extract, and safely repair JSON; validate dictionary schemas; build compact AI context; estimate tokens; and wrap action results in predictable formats. Keep local workflow state on your device with temporary values, persistent values, agent state, and conversation memory. Clean AI responses, process text and lists, create identifiers and hashes, work with URLs, and cache results without leaving Shortcuts. Create safe reusable custom blocks in the companion app, then select them directly in Shortcuts. Audio Spectrum blocks can analyze an audio file and return a PNG spectrum graph for the next step in your workflow. Shortcut Toolkit is designed to stay out of the way: actions run inside Shortcuts wherever Apple permits, return results directly to the next action, and keep data on-device unless you choose a Shortcut action that sends it elsewhere.

Screenshots

Symbol Catalog4 screens
Shortcut Toolkit3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Symbol Catalog at 17.0 against Shortcut Toolkit's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Symbol Catalog versus Shortcut Toolkit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSymbol CatalogShortcut Toolkit
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size5 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperErminio RicciardiBridget Baker

In-app purchases

None

Symbol Catalog

No in-app purchases

None

Shortcut Toolkit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Symbol Catalog free?
Symbol Catalog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shortcut Toolkit free?
Shortcut Toolkit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Symbol Catalog or Shortcut Toolkit have ads?
Neither Symbol Catalog nor Shortcut Toolkit shows ads.

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