GNOME Characters Alternatives

GNOME Characters is described as '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' and is an app. There are seven alternatives to GNOME Characters for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Web-based and BSD apps. The best GNOME Characters alternative is KCharSelect, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNOME Characters are Smile, Character Map, CharacterMap and EF*CK Chat Keyboard.

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  1. KCharSelect icon
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    KCharSelect is a tool to select special characters from all installed fonts and copy them into the clipboard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • KDE
     
    • KCharSelect is the most popular Linux alternative to GNOME Characters.

    • KCharSelect is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to GNOME Characters.

    • KCharSelect is Free and Open SourceGNOME Characters is also Free and Open Source
    • KCharSelect is LightweightGNOME Characters is not according to our users
  2. Smile icon
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    Smile is a simple emoji picker for linux with custom tags support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flatpak
    • Flathub
     
  3. 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
     
    • Character Map is the most popular Windows alternative to GNOME Characters.

    • Character Map is Free and ProprietaryGNOME Characters is Free and Open Source
  4. CharacterMap icon
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    CharacterMap.org is a simple online character map. It is a tool that allows you to view the ASCII table and Unicode characters.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • CharacterMap is the most popular Web-based alternative to GNOME Characters.

    • CharacterMap is Free and ProprietaryGNOME Characters is Free and Open Source
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    EF*CK is a free cross-platform open-source on-screen desktop emoji keyboard, with built-in text-filter-based emoji picker, Unicode text converter, meme GIF search function ...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • EF*CK Chat Keyboard is the most popular Mac alternative to GNOME Characters.

    • EF*CK Chat Keyboard is Free and Open SourceGNOME Characters is also Free and Open Source
  6. Oh My Glyph icon
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    View the glyphs and swashes from the PUA (private use area) of TTF & OTF font files with ease.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  7. 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
     
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