CharMap vs uniChrars
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CharMap
Explore and manage Unicode characters with this utility. Organize favorites, view details, and copy characters to your clipboard. Use the custom keyboard to insert them anywhere and sync collections across devices.
- Browse curated character categories
- Organize favorite characters
- View character details and copy to clipboard
- Insert characters with custom keyboard
- Discover characters and blocks
- Sync collections across devices
- Preview system fonts
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CharMap allows to you discover, organize, and use unicode characters. FEATURES • Browse a collection of curated character categories, and organize your favourite characters into custom collections. • View character details and copy characters to the clipboard in a variety of formats. • Enable the CharMap keyboard to insert characters wherever custom keyboards are supported. • Discover unicode characters and blocks using a dedicated unicode browser. • Automatically sync your collections between devices. • Quickly access your custom collections using the collection widget. • Browse system fonts and view font metadata. • No ads, trackers, or analytics. Your data is stored on-device, and optionally synced across your private iCloud account.
uniChrars
This tool allows you to convert text into various fonts, import them, and copy them to your clipboard. It helps you discover and utilize all installed fonts, showing available characters and enabling font comparisons.
- Text to font conversion
- Automatic font import
- Clipboard copy functionality
- Save and switch styles
- List all installed fonts
- Character availability check
- Font comparison tool
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• It converts written text to the font of your choice, imports it automatically and copies it to the clipboard. Styles and texts can be saved and quickly changed. • List and displays all installed fonts, groups, marks, shares instantly. Choose between them and enjoy their diversity and beauty. • Shows which characters are available in the font set. Very useful to see which special characters are replaced by other generic fonts. • They can be compared with other letters, types. The baselines show how the letter is positioned in the box and what exact offset is needed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: uniChrars at 4.9 against CharMap's 4.0. uniChrars also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 months) and device support (4 vs 2). CharMap's advantage is ratings volume (57 vs 12). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
uniChrars holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 57 and 12 respectively.
CharMap ships an update every 4 months, uniChrars every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CharMap | uniChrars |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (57 ratings) | 4.9 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 57 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 14.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Conor Mulligan | Szerencses Gabor |
Customer experience
CharMap
uniChrars
Bugs and requests
CharMap
Reported bugs
12 issues- Characters omitted in other apps
- Keyboard looks like white rectangle in some apps
- Private Use Area characters not shown
- Collections feature quit working
- App crashes every time it's opened
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- App crashes on iPad Pro
- App crashes on iPad
- Everything gone after update
- App doesn't open after update
- Some symbols are not shown
- Keyboard not showing up immediately
- Preferences -> font closes app
Requested features
20 requests- Add return/enter key
- Batch add characters to collections
- Multi-font support
- Unicode 18.0 support
- Add Unicode 17.0
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- Ability to select characters with single click
- Add 'raised to the power of x' symbol
- Add superscripts in letter, equation, and inequality form
- Option to format characters (LTR/RTL)
- Make fonts usable in 'Unicode'
- Implement custom font API
- Search for character option
- Search by character name
- Add Sutton SignWriting block
- Add symbol search
- Update UI with SF symbols
- Add dark mode support
- Rename collections
- Backup and Restore collections
- Put collections on top of list when using as keyboard
uniChrars
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CharMap
No in-app purchases
uniChrars
No in-app purchases
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