WinCompose Alternatives

WinCompose is described as 'Get easy access to thousands of special symbols through composing of characters on the keyboard in ways that are very easy to remember' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to WinCompose for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best WinCompose alternative is Retro Typer, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinCompose are Rocket, BabelMap, Character Map and UnicodePad.

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  1. FindThatFont! icon

    FindThatFont!

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • FindThatFont! is the most popular Linux alternative to WinCompose.

    • FindThatFont! is Free and Open SourceWinCompose is also Free and Open Source
  2. Unicode-Table.com icon

    Unicode-Table.com

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. Peachy icon

    Peachy

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  5. Gucharmap icon

    Gucharmap

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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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    Holdkey

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    Holdkey is a Windows program that makes it easy to type characters with accents.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. WizKey icon

    WizKey

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. UnicodeChecker icon

    UnicodeChecker

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    UnicodeChecker Main Window displaying basic information about characters
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  10. Extra Keys icon

    Extra Keys

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    Extra Keys is a software input panel for typing international accented and other special characters.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. Unicode Blank Chars icon

    Unicode Blank Chars

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    Unicode Blank Chars, a portable tool that detects Unicode Blank characters based on the "System Case Insensitive Locale" rules!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Unicode Chars Number icon

    Unicode Chars Number

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    Unicode Chars Number, is a portable tool that can be used to find the ordinal value (numeric character code) of any Unicode character!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  13. Emoji Keyboard icon

    Emoji Keyboard

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    This is a freeware software that supports near thousand popular emojis. You can put them in any text field while chatting, posting or commenting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Copypastecharacter

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    Use Copy Paste Character to insert proper typographic characters, such as “quotation marks” and the interrobang ?, or simply use it to spice up your e-mail messages, tweets, or text messages with h?ppy faces, sn?wmen or ? arrows ?.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
     
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