Get easy access to thousands of special symbols through composing of characters on the keyboard in ways that are very easy to remember.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
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CatchChar Alternatives
CatchChar has been discontinued. Similar apps include WinCompose, which is free and open source. Other options are Rocket, BabelMap, Character Map and SymbSearch. You can choose from more than 10 apps like CatchChar for Windows, Mac, the web, iPhone and Linux.
Alternatives list
Rocket is a free Mac app that makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Australia
C
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
United Kingdom
C
30 Character Map alternativesCharacter 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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
United States
C
25 SymbSearch alternativesA tool for searching unicode-symbols and copying it to the clipboard.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows
C
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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
Austria
EU
+2
C
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
C
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
Kyrgyzstan
+1
C
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
C
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
- Australia
C
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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