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WinCompose

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Get easy access to thousands of special symbols through composing of characters on the keyboard in ways that are very easy to remember.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Windows
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
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Properties

  1.  Customizable

Features

  1.  Support for Unicode
  2.  Symbols
  3.  Multiple languages
  4.  Emoji Text support
  5.  Unicode Math Support

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WinCompose information

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3
  • Alternatives

    29 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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OS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  2,654 Stars
  •  86 Forks
  •  191 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jan 26, 2025 
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about WinCompose, and it has gotten 24 likes

WinCompose was added to AlternativeTo by grendelkhan on Oct 17, 2014 and this page was last updated Oct 22, 2021.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Ashley Green
  
Top positive commentFeb 7, 2022

Simple and easy to type french characters.

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greyman000
  
Positive commentJul 5, 2019

Incredible useful, quick, easy to learn and still stay out of the way. Truly speeds up how to insert special characters, symbols and similar. The function of WinCompose should have been integrated in Windows.

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ludeq
CommentMar 27, 2017

simple and powerfull way to insert special characters

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Feliz
CommentMar 10, 2017

It allows me to easily type siimple (and not so simple) characters on Windows that is deficient on this point

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Mythical_Moa
  
Positive commentJun 16, 2016

I don't know why this program doesn't have a higher rating, it's invaluable as a speaker of Afrikaans which uses a lot of accented letters. It's extremely simple to use and you can even add your own key combination to produce characters or emoji like this ¯_( " )_/¯ shrug emoji and many more. HIGHLY recommended!

Plase note the shrug emoji did not come out right on this forum, but try it yourself in other programs and apps.

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What is WinCompose?

WinCompose is a compose key for Windows. It allows to easily write special characters such as é ž à û ø ð ¤ Ø « = µ, and many more using short and often very intuitive key combinations. For instance, ö is obtained using o + ", and » is obtained using > + >.

WinCompose also supports Emoji input for emojis such as 😁 👻 👍 💩 🎁 🌹 🐊 and many more.

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