Character Pad Reviews – Page 5
5/5 rating based on 52 reviews. Read all reviews for Character Pad for iPhone.
Character Pad is free iOS app published by Armchair Engineering
Free? Nope!
MikeE3x
App has no functionality unless you purchase an upgrade. What a joke. Save your time.
Moved functionality behind a paywall
The All Knowing Chairman Of Th
Avoid this developer. I have no problem with paying for new functionality but it is abhorrent to build an app and then once people are using it, hold portions of the app hostage. I wonder if it was worth alienating your user base for a dollar.
Seriously?
rat8cheese
I got this app back with a gift code sometime back. App worked well enough adding a host of special characters for the keyboard. However with one of the last updates it removed essentially all the characters and made them in-app purchases. It's terrible business practice to double bill your customers. I agree with the people who said never download from this author again.
Full Upgrade Option: UNAVAILABLE!
rod.musselman
Post-Update: Unchanged... 128GB Apple iPhone 6s running iOS v. 10.1, FYI ======== Got the app to use a THEREFORE symbol. The app REFUSES to let me purchase the $3.99 upgrade & INSISTS that I purchase a $1.99 upgrade. I'll purchase neither until: 1) I can actually Copy & Paste the THEREFORE symbol. 2) This purchase quandary is BOTH detailed & resolved. (What's included with each purchase & what specifically distinguishes the options, aside from the price?
Very good!
AACthepeng
Okay at the beginning I was confused but just tap on the symbol you want and paste it anywhere. Four stars just because you have to upgrade for more symbols but without upgrading it comes with a lot!
Good app!!
dearlynne
I've used this special symbols app for probably about 3-4 years. It's very easy to use (just copy & paste), & it's free! However, for $.99 you get about 4 times as many symbols, so it's definitely worth it. I LOVE all the choices for crosses! YAY!!
Essential
9robins
Find the character or symbol you need and tap it. It's copied to the clipboard, from which you can insert it into your document. iPhone's clipboard, unlike Microsoft's computer clipboard, seems to hold only one item at a time. So if you have to insert more than one character, you have to go back and forth between the app and your document until your document contains all needed characters--then you can copy them from inside the document for reuse in that document. This can be clumsy & slow going sometimes. Hence 4 stars not 5. But this app has never failed to deliver the characters I need--subscripts, superscripts, math symbols, Greek--material needed by serious users. Sad that this material was (I suppose) ignored by (or unknown to) some developers at Apple, who (I imagine) dropped out of college instead of growing their minds. Can't Apple buy this app and thus integrate its software, making it accessible from Settings > General > Keyboard > Languages? ERHmd
ULTIMATE RIP OFF!!!
Cynran
This WAS the best free app of its kind before the "update" took most of the characters away, forcing you to purchase what you had in the first place. NEW: Purchase options include a reduced cost for veterans (among others). But when you select that option, you are still charged full price (4 times the amount). I can understand the need for proof, but if you have no way to verify - DO NOT PRETEND to offer a lower cost.