Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows




PopChar is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to PopChar for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and iPhone apps. The best PopChar alternative is WinCompose, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PopChar are Retro Typer, Rocket, BabelMap and Character Map.




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.


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.

FindThatFont! is the most popular Linux alternative to PopChar.
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).




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.




Getting bored of the overused emojis? Enter kaomojis into any Mac app now, Slack-style! (?^O^?)




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





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...).




WizKey makes it easy to type accented and other special Unicode characters using a standard US/UK keyboard with easy to remember keyboard shortcuts.


Mac OS X application to explore Unicode. Analyse and convert Unicode strings for HTML or programming. Supports UniHan, Services, AppleScript and more.

