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




Character Map is described as '(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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Character Map for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Mac, Linux and Android apps. The best Character Map alternative is WinCompose, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Character Map are BabelMap, KCharSelect, character.ai and Character Map UWP.




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.


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.




Characters is a simple utility application to find and insert unusual characters. It allows you to quickly find the character you are looking for by searching for keywords.

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.




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.

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




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.

