UniChar — Unicode Keyboard

UniChar is a powerful yet beautiful Unicode character app and keyboard that allows you to quickly find, type, and work with special symbols.

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“UniChar is a cool little app and keyboard, and offers access to a huge world of Unicode characters that are otherwise absent within the standard iOS keyboard.”

– iDownloadBlog

"On the Mac, you can type any character [with] the Emoji & Symbols viewer ... The selection on iOS is much more limited ... But UniChar changes that."

– Cult of Mac

"This iOS keyboard app will give you all the Unicode characters you’ll ever need."

– lifehacker

“It’s a full-featured utility for searching and copying symbols … it’s always nice to see a developer who’s dedicated to improving this kind of utility over time and adopting new features … it's a very handy app.”

– AppStories

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Utilize hundreds of thousands of characters organized neatly into categories and a full Unicode table. You can quickly search for the character you’re looking for, type special symbols in any app with the custom keyboard, and collect your favorite characters to access them even quicker.

For developers, UniChar is an efficient tool to work with Unicode code points and UTF-8 encodings. Revamp your workflow by using UniChar alongside other apps on iPad, or use Universal Clipboard to copy on your iPhone and paste on your Mac.

App

◉ Work with characters and their info – Name, Unicode, and UTF-8

◉ Browse curated categories in grid or list view

◉ Customize your categories – choose from more than 150 symbol and script categories*

◉ Access the entire Unicode table by character blocks*

◉ Jump to a specific block, category, or code point

◉ Search for symbols by name, info, or even by drawing**

◉ Identify characters and see a breakdown of code points that form them

◉ Select custom fonts to use when rendering glyphs

◉ Collect and organize your favorite symbols

◉ Quickly copy character info to the clipboard

◉ Insert characters into the text field and compose text using the system keyboard

◉ Share your text via Messages, Mail, Mastodon, etc – or open it in other apps like Pages

Keyboard

◎ Type special symbols in any app

◎ Quickly input your favorite and recently used characters

◎ Browse curated categories – choose from more than 150 categories*

◎ Designed to compliment the Emoji keyboard

Widgets

■ Add your favorite symbol to your Lock Screen

■ View stats for how many drawings you've submitted to help improve Search by Drawing

Apple Watch

◆ Add your favorite symbol to your watch face

◆ Quickly access your favorite and recently used characters

◆ Copy character info to your iPhone’s clipboard

And More

● Beautiful Liquid Glass design

● Light and dark mode

● Full accessibility support

● Handoff support

● Drag and Drop

● Keyboard shortcuts and menu bar on iPad

● Support for adding links to characters in Quick Note

● Siri integration including support for "Siri share this" and "Siri remind me about this"

● Universal app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple silicon Mac

● No ads, no tracking, no subscriptions

* All Categories can be unlocked via a one-time in-app purchase.

** Search by Drawing is powered by an on-device machine learning model that predicts matching symbols as you draw in real-time. You can help improve symbol recognition by submitting your own drawings!