Symbol Keypad for Texting vs FindText
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Symbol Keypad for Texting
Easily insert a vast array of Unicode symbols and characters into your text messages and other applications. Explore thousands of symbols to express your information uniquely and enhance your communication.
- Access over 50,000 Unicode characters
- Thousands of unique symbols available
- Insert symbols into texts and other apps
- Express information uniquely
- Enhance communication with special characters
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Are you interested in Unicode symbols? There are over 50,000 characters and thousands of symbols. They can express your information totally.
FindText
Easily find and replace text within your documents. Supports case sensitivity, regular expressions, and replacing all occurrences with a new phrase.
- Paste text from clipboard
- Find and Replace functions
- Case sensitive or insensitive search
- Regular expression support
- Replace all occurrences
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Find and replace text: 1. Enter or Paste your text from the clipboard into the TextView 2. You can choose Find or Replace function 3. Enter the word or phrase you want to replace in Find what. 4. Enter your new text in Replace with. 5. Replace All to change all occurrences of the word or phrase. To specify only upper or lowercase in your search, select Matching Case or Ignoring Case. For advanced users, we've also added the ability to find patterns using a regular expression. Click the Search button in the search field to see the basic regular expressions or enter the regular expression that you want to replace in Find what.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Symbol Keypad for Texting at 4.7 against FindText's 3.7. Symbol Keypad for Texting also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 3). FindText's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 81%). On price, device support 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. FindText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Symbol Keypad for Texting asks for nothing beyond the download.
Symbol Keypad for Texting holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Symbol Keypad for Texting has 1.6K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of Symbol Keypad for Texting's written reviews are positive against 100% of FindText's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Symbol Keypad for Texting | FindText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.6K ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 山 钟 | Thach Nguyen Trong |
Customer experience
Symbol Keypad for Texting
FindText
Bugs and requests
Symbol Keypad for Texting
Reported bugs
3 issues- Keyboard not showing up properly on iPad
- Favorites and history not syncing correctly
- Some symbols not displaying correctly after iOS updates
Requested features
5 requests- Add more symbols, especially common fractions and Egyptian hieroglyphics
- Improve search functionality and navigation
- Add iPad support and optimize the UI for larger screens
- Allow customization of favorite symbols and their placement
- Provide an option to disable the dark mode
FindText
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Symbol Keypad for Texting
No in-app purchases
FindText
- Premium Version$3.99
Questions
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