GNOME Characters Alternatives

GNOME Characters is described as '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' and is an app. There are eight alternatives to GNOME Characters for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Web-based and BSD apps. The best GNOME Characters alternative is KCharSelect, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNOME Characters are Smile, Character Map, Oh My Glyph and CharacterMap.

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  1. KCharSelect icon

    KCharSelect

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    KCharSelect is a tool to select special characters from all installed fonts and copy them into the clipboard.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • KDE
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    • European Union flagEU
    KCharSelect screenshot 1
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  2. Smile icon

    Smile

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    Smile is a simple emoji picker for linux with custom tags support.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flatpak
    • Flathub
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    • European Union flagEU
    Smile screenshot 1
    Smile screenshot 2
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  4. Character Map icon

    Character Map

     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
    • US flagUnited States
    Character Map screenshot 1
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  5. Oh My Glyph icon

    Oh My Glyph

     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • SE flagSweden
    • European Union flagEU
    Easily see the hidden glyphs
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  6. CharacterMap icon

    CharacterMap

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    CharacterMap.org is a simple online character map. It is a tool that allows you to view the ASCII table and Unicode characters.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Global
    CharacterMap screenshot 1
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  8. EF*CK Chat Keyboard icon

    EF*CK Chat Keyboard

     4 likes

    EF*CK is a free cross-platform open-source on-screen desktop emoji keyboard, with built-in text-filter-based emoji picker, Unicode text converter, meme GIF search function ...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    EF*CK Chat Keyboard screenshot 1
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  9. Gucharmap icon

    Gucharmap

     7 likes

    Open source character map for the GNOME desktop environment.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MacPorts
    • XQuartz
    • GNOME
    • US flagUnited States
    Gucharmap character table
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  10. Emoji Picker icon

    Emoji Picker

     Like

    A fast, KDE-styled emoji picker for Wayland (KDE Plasma 6) with direct insertion.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    Emoji Picker screenshot 1
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