alt Codes vs Symbol Keyboard for Message
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
alt Codes
Discover Windows keyboard shortcuts for typing special characters and symbols not on your keyboard. Quickly copy symbols to your iOS device's clipboard for easy pasting on your Mac via Universal Clipboard.
- Find Windows keyboard shortcuts
- Type special characters and symbols
- Copy symbols to iOS clipboard
- Paste on Mac with Universal Clipboard
- Quick symbol lookup
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alt Codes enables you to quickly and easily find the keyboard combinations in Windows to type symbols and characters that are not found on traditional keyboards. In addition to discovering the keyboard code for a character or symbol, you can quickly copy the character or symbol to the clipboard of your iOS device. With Universal Clipboard, any character or symbol copied on your iOS device can be instantly pasted on your Mac.
Symbol Keyboard for Message
Add over 10,000 special symbols and characters to your messages and social media profiles. Customize bios, posts, and texts to stand out and impress your friends. Works across all your favorite apps.
- 10000+ cool symbols
- Customize social media bios
- Use in all apps
- Pimp Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
- Create custom text messages
- Personalize contact lists and calendars
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Coolest Symbol Keyboards for iOS! Input 10000+ Cool Symbols and pimp your instagram bios ,twitter profile, facebook, SMS, text! Impress your friends with special symbols and use it in your favourite social networking apps! Use in Everywhere, in twitter, instagram, texting and messaging ! You can also use it to customize your contact lists, calendar, folders, etc. Be COOL! Download Symbol Keyboard to access 10000+ symbols that work with all app! Write custom cool text messages to your friends with cool symbols keyboard.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: alt Codes at none against Symbol Keyboard for Message's shown. alt Codes also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Symbol Keyboard for Message's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (74 vs 9). On price, review sentiment, 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 Message holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Symbol Keyboard for Message has 74 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of alt Codes's written reviews are positive against 76% of Symbol Keyboard for Message's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
alt Codes ships an update fortnightly, Symbol Keyboard for Message monthly. The most recent releases landed on July 17, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | alt Codes | Symbol Keyboard for Message |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (9 ratings) | 4.7 (74 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better | 75.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 74 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jared Lipton | 山 钟 |
Customer experience
alt Codes
Symbol Keyboard for Message
In-app purchases
alt Codes
No in-app purchases
Symbol Keyboard for Message
No in-app purchases
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