Comparison

alt Codes vs Symbols

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Find Windows keyboard shortcuts
  • Type special characters and symbols
  • Copy symbols to iOS clipboard
  • Paste on Mac with Universal Clipboard
  • Quick symbol lookup
Features
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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.

About

Symbols

Access and discover a vast collection of Unicode characters. Find specific symbols, view their HTML and Unicode information, and save frequently used characters to a favorites list for quick access.

Highlights
  • Access all Unicode characters
  • View HTML and Unicode info
  • Search for specific characters
  • Add characters to Favorites
  • Copy characters easily
Features
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Fancy fonts for your bio, posts and messages, and every symbol one tap away. Turn any text into cool, aesthetic letters: bold, italic, cursive, gothic, Ⓒⓘⓡⓒⓛⓔⓓ and more, frame your name with decorations, and add cute kaomoji text faces. Then search, copy and paste more than 26,000 special characters: arrows, hearts, stars, check marks, math signs, currency signs, letters from every script and more, straight from the Unicode 18 standard. FANCY TEXT • Type anything and copy it as fancy letters in Ⓒⓘⓡⓒⓛⓔⓓ and more • 23 text styles: bold, italic, script, gothic, double-struck, circled, squared, wide, small caps, upside down, strikethrough and more • Paste it anywhere: bios, messages, posts and notes • Bold, Italic and Strikethrough are free; every style comes with Symbols Pro DECORATIONS AND KAOMOJI • Frame your name with more than 30 decorations: stars, hearts, sparkles, brackets and more • Over 80 kaomoji text faces for every mood: happy, love, sad, angry, shy, animals and more • Tap to copy, then paste into your bio, nickname or chat • A few decorations and faces in every group are free; all of them come with Symbols Pro FIND ANY CHARACTER • Search by name ("arrow", "check mark", "degree") or by hex code ("2192") • Browse all 249 Unicode blocks, or group by category • Filter by letters, marks, numbers, punctuation, symbols or spaces COPY IT YOUR WAY • Tap any character to copy it instantly, with optional sound and haptic feedback • Long-press to copy its code: Unicode (U+2192), HTML (→), HTML hex, CSS, Swift or JavaScript • Share characters to any app SYMBOLS KEYBOARD • Type any character in any app with the Symbols keyboard • Characters are grouped into symbols, punctuation, numbers, letters, marks and spaces • Symbols never records what you type FAVORITES AND HISTORY • Save the characters you use most to Favorites • Every character you copy is kept in History, ready to use again SYMBOLS PRO • No ads • All 23 Fancy Text styles • Every decoration and kaomoji • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with your favorite and recent characters • Your Favorites and Recents inside the Symbols keyboard Symbols Pro is available as a weekly or monthly auto-renewable subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices are shown in the app and may vary by country. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings at any time after purchase. Any unused part of a free trial, if offered, is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kreatimont.com/apps/symbols/privacy.html

Screenshots

alt Codes3 screens
Symbols4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: alt Codes at none against Symbols's 3. alt Codes also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Symbols's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Symbols sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. alt Codes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for alt Codes against 4.5 for Symbols. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 11 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of alt Codes's written reviews are positive against 75% of Symbols's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

alt Codes ships an update fortnightly, Symbols every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
alt Codes versus Symbols: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameteralt CodesSymbols
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (9 ratings)4.5 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings911 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJared LiptonAlexandr Nadtoka

Customer experience

alt Codes

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%

Symbols

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative8.3%

In-app purchases

None

alt Codes

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Symbols

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is alt Codes free?
alt Codes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Symbols free?
Symbols is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, alt Codes or Symbols?
Symbols is rated higher. alt Codes averages 4.4 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Symbols averages 4.5 from 11 ratings.
Do alt Codes or Symbols have ads?
Symbols shows ads; alt Codes does not.
Which is updated more often, alt Codes or Symbols?
alt Codes ships an update fortnightly, and Symbols every 3 days. Most recently, alt Codes was updated on October 7, 2026 and Symbols on October 19, 2026.

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