CatchChar Alternatives

CatchChar is described as 'Make a custom menu to insert favorite Unicode characters in Windows with CatchChar. This menu will consist of only the characters that you use often and add to it. This is different than using Charmap or Keyboard programs that show you the whole character set instead of just' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to CatchChar for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, iPhone and BSD apps. The best CatchChar alternative is WinCompose, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CatchChar are Rocket, BabelMap, Character Map and SymbSearch.

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  1. WinCompose icon
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    Get easy access to thousands of special symbols through composing of characters on the keyboard in ways that are very easy to remember.

    26 WinCompose alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • WinCompose is the most popular Windows alternative to CatchChar.

    • WinCompose is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to CatchChar.

    • WinCompose is Free and Open SourceCatchChar is Free and Proprietary
    • WinCompose is CustomizableCatchChar is not according to our users
  2. Rocket icon
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    Rocket is a free Mac app that makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • Rocket is the most popular Mac alternative to CatchChar.

    • Rocket is Freemium and ProprietaryCatchChar is Free and Proprietary
  3. BabelMap icon
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    BabelMap is a free character map application for Windows that allows you to browse through the entire Unicode character repertoire of over 107,000 characters, or search for a particular character by name or by code point.

    25 BabelMap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  4. Character Map icon
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    Character Map (Charmap.exe) is a utility included with Microsoft Windows operating systems and is used to view the characters in any installed font, to check what keyboard input (Alt code) is used to enter those characters, and to copy characters to the clipboard in lieu of...

    29 Character Map alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. SymbSearch icon
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    A tool for searching unicode-symbols and copying it to the clipboard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. PopChar icon
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    The character map that works! PopChar is an application that lets you insert special characters, umlauts and foreign letters into any document. With this character map, there is no need to search for or remember complex keystrokes.

    31 PopChar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
    • PopChar is the most popular commercial alternative to CatchChar.

    • PopChar is Paid and ProprietaryCatchChar is Free and Proprietary
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    Handy online Unicode character table with search tool, short information about origin and history of most characters in eight languages and some great compose-tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Unicode-Table.com is the most popular Web-based alternative to CatchChar.

    • Unicode-Table.com is Free and ProprietaryCatchChar is also Free and Proprietary
  8. Gucharmap icon
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    Open source character map for the GNOME desktop environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MacPorts
    • XQuartz
    • GNOME
     
    • Gucharmap is the most popular Linux alternative to CatchChar.

    • Gucharmap is Free and Open SourceCatchChar is Free and Proprietary
  9. Uosk icon
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    Uosk is a light tool that opens any ASCII, ANSI, UTF-8 and UTF-16 text file and converts words (e.g. separated by spaces) into buttons. Clicking one button the text snippet is pasted into any text editor (Notepad, WordPad, MS Office, OpenOffice...).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Holdkey icon
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    Holdkey is a Windows program that makes it easy to type characters with accents.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. WizKey icon
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    WizKey makes it easy to type accented and other special Unicode characters using a standard US/UK keyboard with easy to remember keyboard shortcuts.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Mac OS X application to explore Unicode. Analyse and convert Unicode strings for HTML or programming. Supports UniHan, Services, AppleScript and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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