CharMap vs Uni Keyboard
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.
Uni Keyboard
This custom keyboard for iPhone and iPad provides access to over 2950 characters, organized into 24 distinct groups. Easily navigate through all characters or select a specific group for quick access.
- Access over 2950 characters
- Organized into 24 groups
- Scrollable character list
- Group picker for specific characters
- Custom keyboard for iOS
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Say Hello to Uni - a custom keyboard for iPhone and iPad that makes it easy to use over 2950 characters organized into 24 Groups. Scroll through all available characters or use the group picker to display characters within a specific group. Visit our website for more information.
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Verdict
CharMap and Uni Keyboard both sit at 4.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 77% of Uni Keyboard's written reviews are positive against 54% of CharMap's. Uni Keyboard also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). CharMap's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 15 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for CharMap against 3.9 for Uni Keyboard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 57 and 59 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of CharMap's written reviews are positive against 77% of Uni Keyboard's.
CharMap ships an update every 4 months, Uni Keyboard every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CharMap | Uni Keyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (57 ratings) — better | 3.9 (59 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.7% of reviews | 76.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 57 | 59 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Conor Mulligan | Thomas Blackburn |
Customer experience
CharMap
Uni Keyboard
User reviews
CharMap
From 57 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🌟 Genuinely amazing for needs
- 💡 Custom keyboards brilliant
- 💯 Has every Unicode
- ✨ Very impressive
- 👍 Great for computer science
Room to improve
- ❌ No return/enter key
- ❓ Feature not obvious
- ⚠️ Characters omitted in other apps
- ⚪ Keyboard looks like white rectangle
- 😵 UI is ugly and old
Uni Keyboard
From 59 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Wide variety of characters
- 🆓 Free and feature-rich
- 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
- 💯 Comprehensive Unicode keyboard
- 💡 Access to many symbols
Room to improve
- 👎 Key layout defies UI/UX
- 🤔 Missing many Unicode characters
- 😩 Scrolling is tedious
- 🎛️ Not user-friendly for symbol selection
- 📱 Doesn't display properly on iPhone X
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
Uni Keyboard
Reported bugs
7 issues- Key to switch keyboards in abnormal position
- Cannot find power symbol
- App not updated anymore
- Cannot find Wingdings
- Doesn't display properly on iPhone X
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- Basic latin text too big
- No keyboard down button
Requested features
16 requests- Add rest of Unicode characters
- Search for symbols by name/code
- More sorting options for fonts
- Support dark mode
- Add mathematical double-struck Capital X
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- Add runes and hieroglyphics
- Add nikudim for Hebrew
- Add Arabic section with all letters
- Add Sanskrit, Devanagari, Tibetan
- Add an Asian section
- Add Wingdings font/category
- Add lowercase and uppercase Wingdings
- Rearrange categories
- Add recently used menu item
- Add subscript and superscript letters
- Add customizable fractions
In-app purchases
CharMap
No in-app purchases
Uni Keyboard
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is CharMap free?
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