Characters Alternatives

Characters is described as 'Makes it easy for writers, designers and developers to access special characters. They are easily found and copied to your clipboard, either as the character itself or the html code' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Characters for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, iPhone and BSD apps. The best Characters alternative is WinCompose, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Characters are BabelMap, Character Map, Rocket and Retro Typer.

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WinCompose
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Free • Open Source
Windows
31 WinCompose alternatives
WinCompose is a compose key for Windows. It allows to easily write special characters such as é ž à û ø ð ¤ Ø « = µ, and many more using short and often very intuitive key combinations.
- - WinCompose is the most popular Windows alternative to Characters.
- - WinCompose is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Characters.
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Support for Unicode
Symbols
Multiple languages
Customizable
Emoji Text support
Unicode Math Support
BabelMap
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
PortableApps.com
31 BabelMap alternatives
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.
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BabelMap Features
1. PortableBabelMap can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Support for Unicode
Character Map
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
35 Character Map alternatives
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...
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Character Map Features
Symbols
Rocket
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Freemium • Proprietary
Mac
25 Rocket alternatives
Rocket is a free Mac app that makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts.
- - Rocket is the most popular Mac alternative to Characters.
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Rocket Features
1. Dark ModeRocket supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Retro Typer
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
25 Retro Typer alternatives
Retro Typer is a straightforward software tool designed for macOS and Windows platforms. Its primary function is to provide users with a search engine for locating memes and emojis. It incorporates a user-friendly interface that facilitates the navigation and selection of...
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Retro Typer Features
MEMES
Meme Generator
Emoji search
Support for GIF
PopChar
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
38 PopChar alternatives
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.
- - PopChar is the most popular commercial alternative to Characters.
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SymbSearch
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Free • Open Source
Windows
27 SymbSearch alternatives
A tool for searching unicode-symbols and copying it to the clipboard.
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SymbSearch Features
1. PortableSymbSearch can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Symbols
Unicode-Table.com
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Free • Proprietary
Online
23 Unicode-Table.com alternatives
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.
- - Unicode-Table.com is the most popular Web-based alternative to Characters.
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Symbols
Unicode Map
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Free • Open Source
Android
25 Unicode Map alternatives
Browse Unicode characters by range; search for them by name; display them (when Android has the font); copy them to the clipboard; decode a string of Unicode characters to names.
- - Unicode Map is the most popular Android alternative to Characters.
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Unicode Map Features
Support for Unicode
Multiple languages
Symbols
Oh My Glyph
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
Online
22 Oh My Glyph alternatives
View the glyphs and swashes from the PUA (private use area) of TTF & OTF font files with ease.
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Holdkey
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Freemium • Proprietary
Windows
18 Holdkey alternatives
Holdkey is a Windows program that makes it easy to type characters with accents.
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Gucharmap
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Linux
BSD
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XQuartz
29 Gucharmap alternatives
Open source character map for the GNOME desktop environment.
- - Gucharmap is the most popular Linux alternative to Characters.
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