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 six alternatives to GNOME Characters for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and KDE Plasma apps. The best GNOME Characters alternative is KCharSelect, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNOME Characters are Character Map, Smile, EF*CK Chat Keyboard and Oh My Glyph.

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Characters is a simple utility application to find and insert unusual characters. It allows you to quickly find the...

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GNOME Characters alternatives page was last updated Apr 29, 2025
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  1. KCharSelect icon

    KCharSelect

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • KDE
    KCharSelect screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  No registration required
    5.  KDE

    KCharSelect VS GNOME Characters

     

    • 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. Character Map icon

    Character Map

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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

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Character Map screenshot 1

    Character Map Features

    1.  Symbols

    Character Map VS GNOME Characters

     

    • Character Map is the most popular Windows alternative to GNOME Characters.

    • Character Map is Free and ProprietaryGNOME Characters is Free and Open Source
  4. Smile icon

    Smile

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    Smile is a simple emoji picker for linux with custom tags support.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flatpak
    Smile screenshot 1
    Smile screenshot 2

    Smile Features

    1.  Tagging
    2.  Gtk
    3.  Copy Paste Emoji
    4.  Support for Hotkeys
    5.  Emoji search

    Smile VS GNOME Characters

     
  5. EF*CK Chat Keyboard icon

    EF*CK Chat Keyboard

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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 ...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    EF*CK Chat Keyboard screenshot 1

    EF*CK Chat Keyboard Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Emoji search
    3.  Copy Paste Emoji
    4.  Emoji reactions
    5.  On-screen Keyboard

    EF*CK Chat Keyboard VS GNOME Characters

     

    • 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
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    Oh My Glyph

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    View the glyphs and swashes from the PUA (private use area) of TTF & OTF font files with ease.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • SE flagSweden
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    Easily see the hidden glyphs

    Oh My Glyph VS GNOME Characters

     

    • Oh My Glyph is the most popular Web-based alternative to GNOME Characters.

    • Oh My Glyph is Free and ProprietaryGNOME Characters is Free and Open Source
  7. Gucharmap icon

    Gucharmap

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    Open source character map for the GNOME desktop environment.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MacPorts
    • XQuartz
    • GNOME
    Gucharmap character table

    Gucharmap Features

    1.  Gtk

    Gucharmap VS GNOME Characters

     
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