Character Map Alternatives

Apps similar to Character Map include BabelMap, which is free. Other options are WinCompose, character.ai, KCharSelect and UnicodePad. You're spoiled for choice with AI Chatbots like Character Map: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, the web, Mac, Linux and Android.

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  1. Opcion font viewer is a free and open source font viewer written in Java. It allows you to view both installed and uninstalled fonts and makes selecting the right font for your project quick and easy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. SymWin icon
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    A small and quick tool for typing special symbols.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. Characters is a simple utility application to find and insert unusual characters. It allows you to quickly find the character you are looking for by searching for keywords.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Linux Mobile
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  4. UnicodePlus icon
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    UnicodePlus is a free tool providing information about any Unicode character: name, codepoint, classification, conversion, UTF encodings, etc.

    9 UnicodePlus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. Gucharmap icon
     7 likes

    Open source character map for the GNOME desktop environment.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MacPorts
    • XQuartz
    • GNOME
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  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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  7. FindThatFont! icon
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    FindThatFont! is a handy tool that allows to preview fonts that are installed on your system and to classify them into over 30 different categories.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Small and fast utility that can generate a whole range of Unicode symbols or the range that you set for it. The app can export the list of symbols horizontally (by default) or vertically (in that case you also can show index number as option).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. 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
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  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
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  11. WizKey icon
     3 likes

    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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