alt Codes vs Idle Check
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.
Idle Check
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Enter a license plate number (manually or by uploading a photo) and determine if there are prior summonses for that license plate in the New York City OATH records for DEP idling violations. App does not collect, store, or use any private information. All external information accessed to use the app is in the public domain.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: alt Codes at fortnightly against Idle Check's every 4 months. alt Codes also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
alt Codes ships an update fortnightly, Idle Check every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | alt Codes | Idle Check |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jared Lipton | Jonah Scheib |
In-app purchases
alt Codes
No in-app purchases
Idle Check
No in-app purchases
