Alternatives to The Font Thing for all platforms with any license

NexusFont

Nexus Font is a font manager for Windows . If you have many fonts and you need to choose fonts you want, this program is for you. You can compare many fonts at once. And...

Free Windows
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- Discontinued Last updated on 2015.11.06: http://www.xiles.net/
Font Manager

Font Manager is intended to provide a way for average users to easily manage desktop fonts, without having to resort to command line tools or editing configuration files...

Free Open Source Linux Xfce
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Font Runner

If you have a large collection of fonts, keeping them all in your Windows Fonts folder can be burdensome and slow. With Font Runner, you can manage your font files by...

Free Open Source Windows
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Fonts.com

We are proud to have teamed up with Google to offer desktop versions of their popular Google Fonts free of charge. Offered for use in print, these fonts are delivered...

Free Personal Web
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RightFont

RightFont is the best font manager app for Mac OS X, helping designers to preview, sync and manage fonts and find the right font quickly. RightFont is the new generation...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac iPhone iPad
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Font Book

Font Book is the standard font manager that comes with Mac OS. The program enables users to: Preview and install font files, avoiding multiple instances of the same...

Commercial Mac
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FontExplorer X

Font management from the font experts. Optimized for professional use, the FontExplorer X solution gives you the power you need to manage all your fonts. Now you can...

Commercial Mac Windows
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- Discontinued FontExplorer X (by Linotype) has been succeeded by http://alternativeto.net/software/fontexplorer-x-pro-1/ and FontExplorer X Server (by Monotype), after Linotype was acquired by Monotype. FontExplorer X Pro is for Mac only. While there seems to be a Windows Client and Server for FontExplorer X Server, it only works with Windows Server Editions and doesn't ...
Typograf

Typograf previews, prints and manages opentype, truetype, type1 and printer fonts. The Typograf top class font manager * previews all OpenType, TrueType...

Commercial Windows
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Font Xplorer

Font Xplorer - ultimate font viewing and management software. Font Xplorer does not support Adobe Type 1 fonts and OpenType fonts with PostScript outlines. It works...

Free Windows
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- Discontinued Last version, 1.2.2, released on July 2001, is still downloadable from the official website for free, but is not compatible with Windows Vista/7/8.
Fontmatrix

Fontmatrix is a font manager built with the kind of features and abilities graphic designers, layout pros, and others have felt necessary, but modernized with some new...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
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- Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.6.0, released in July 2009, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Font Glancer

Font browser which displays a preview of all the fonts installed in system. Allows you to test each font and have a global view of the full char map of each font.

Free Windows
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X-Fonter

X-Fonter is an advanced font viewer and font manager for Windows that supports all font types (Truetype, Opentype, Postscript, Raster and Vector). The clear font...

Commercial Windows
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Beefont

Manage & Compare Fonts Easily. You want to be able to list all the fonts installed on your computer? You want to compare part of them? You want to display all...

Commercial Mac
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- Discontinued No longer accessible.
FontDrop

Use fonts without needing to install them, just drag'n'drop to Photoshop/Illustrator! With an online catalog of fonts, quickly search and install them. Adobe...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows
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Fonty

Scan all the installed fonts on your Mac for ones which support certain character sets. .

Commercial $ $ $ Mac
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