The Best Vibration Meter + vs Special Characters++
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Best Vibration Meter +
This utility app transforms your phone into a vibration meter, using its sensors to detect and measure vibrations. It functions as a seismograph or seismic detector, allowing you to check and calibrate vibration levels. The app offers an ad-free experience for monitoring seismic activity.
- Measures vibration using phone sensors
- Acts as a seismograph/seismic detector
- Allows calibration of vibration readings
- Ad-free experience
- Detects earthquakes
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Check the version of The Best Vibration Meter without adverts. The Best Vibration Meter is an app which can measure the vibration (seismograph, body tremor, seismometer). This app uses the phone sensors to measure vibration or the earthquake, and it shows a reference as a seismic detector. You can calibrate your app so that the maximum value is about 10-11. Check the vibrations with you phone!
Special Characters++
Access over 1000 unique symbols, glyphs, and characters not found on the standard iOS keyboard. Organize your favorites and quickly find characters with a dedicated search bar. Enhance your texts, emails, and notes with custom characters.
- Access over 1000 special characters
- Categorized character sections
- Quick Find search bar
- Favorites list for custom sorting
- Recently used character tracking
- Supports landscape and portrait modes
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Special Characters is an iOS 8 keyboard that gives you access to all the symbols, glyphs, bullets, arrows and other special characters that you can't access from the standard iOS keyboard. Special Characters isn't a replacement keyboard but a companion that you can use to get to the characters & symbols you need when you need them. Choose from over 1000 characters separated into 10 sections. * Symbols * Pictographs * Currency Characters * Math Symbols * Punctuation * Bullets * Arrows * Parentheses * Numbers * Letter A - Z are there. * Quick Find Bar * Use the quick find bar to jump right were you want to be. * Favorites * You can also long tap on any key and store it in your favorites. Edit and sort your favorites list into what works for you. * Recently Used * Special Characters also keeps track of all your recently used characters like the Emoji keyboard. Finally, Special Characters works in both landscape and portrait. We are certain that Special Character keyboard will give your emails, texts and notes the special characters you need! So, make the leap with Jump Gap Software’s Special Characters keyboard for iOS 8.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Special Characters++ at 55% against The Best Vibration Meter +'s 0%. Special Characters++ also leads on ratings volume (19 vs 2). The Best Vibration Meter +'s advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
The Best Vibration Meter + costs $0.99 and Special Characters++ $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Best Vibration Meter + holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Special Characters++ has 19 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of The Best Vibration Meter +'s written reviews are positive against 55% of Special Characters++'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
The Best Vibration Meter + ships an update every 3 months, Special Characters++ every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Best Vibration Meter + | Special Characters++ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.5 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 55.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NETIGEN Kluzowicz sp. j. | James Spencer |
Customer experience
The Best Vibration Meter +
Special Characters++
In-app purchases
The Best Vibration Meter +
No in-app purchases
Special Characters++
No in-app purchases
Questions
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