CatchChar Alternatives

CatchChar is described as 'Make a custom menu to insert favorite Unicode characters in Windows with CatchChar. This menu will consist of only the characters that you use often and add to it. This is different than using Charmap or Keyboard programs that show you the whole character set instead of just' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to CatchChar for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, iPhone and BSD apps. The best CatchChar alternative is WinCompose, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CatchChar are Rocket, BabelMap, Character Map and SymbSearch.

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  1. WinCompose icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Rocket icon
     14 likes

    Rocket is a free Mac app that makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts.

    28 Rocket alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. BabelMap icon
     31 likes

    BabelMap is a free character map application for Windows that allows you to browse through the entire Unicode character repertoire of over 107,000 characters, or search for a particular character by name or by code point.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  4. Character Map icon
     23 likes

    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...

    30 Character Map alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. SymbSearch icon
     4 likes

    A tool for searching unicode-symbols and copying it to the clipboard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Gucharmap icon
     7 likes

    Open source character map for the GNOME desktop environment.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MacPorts
    • XQuartz
    • GNOME
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  7. PopChar icon
     11 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  8. Uosk icon
     7 likes

    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...).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. 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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  10. Holdkey icon
     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. WizKey icon
     3 likes

    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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  12. 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
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