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We've compiled a list of 23 free and paid alternatives to Characters. The primary competitors include VWO Testing, BabelMap. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Characters and PopChar, WinCompose, Extra Keys. Also you can look at other similar options here: Design Software, Web Design Software.


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Characters makes it easy for writers, designers and developers to access special characters.

Characters Platforms

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Characters Overview

Characters makes it easy for writers, designers and developers to access special characters. They are easily found and copied to your clipboard, either as the character itself or the html code.

For example, if you need the copyright symbol, just type "copy" into the search bar and the app finds the character you're looking for. With one click you can copy it to your clipboard.

The app knows which characters you use the most and those will always stay at the top, so you can access them easily.

“Cool little Mac app for quick access to those characters you can never remember the shortcut keys for.”
– John Boardley, ilovetypography.com

“It’s simple, it works, and it looks great. And it’s the perfect example of the cheap single-serve apps that were hard to sell before the Mac App Store.”
– Charlie Sorrel, cultofmac.com

“Great app for designers and developers. Negates the hassle of having to search for special characters and puts them all into one little tab, easily accessable from the taskbar.”
– Oliur Rahman, theultralinx.com

Available character sets:
- Arrows
- Emojis ??
- Block elements
- Currencies
- Cyrillic
- Digits
- Dingbats
- Geometric shapes
- Greek
- Latin
- Latin Extended-A
- Letter-like
- Math
- Parentheses
- Pictographs
- Pictographs
- Punctuation

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