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 Rocket, which is free. Other great apps like WinCompose are BabelMap, Retro Typer, Character Map and UnicodePad.

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  1. PopChar icon
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    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.

    31 PopChar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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    this is a charmap replacement, not a compose key enabler

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    • PopChar is Paid and ProprietaryWinCompose is Free and Open Source
  2. FindThatFont! icon
     4 likes

    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
     
  3. 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
     
  4. Gucharmap icon
     7 likes

    Open source character map for the GNOME desktop environment.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MacPorts
    • XQuartz
    • GNOME
     
  5. Holdkey icon
     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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
     
  8. Extra Keys icon
     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. 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
     
  10. 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
     
  11. 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
     
  12. 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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