UniChar vs YooniKey

UniChar is a powerful yet beautiful Unicode character app and keyboard that allows you to quickly find, type, and work with special symbols. ◣ "This iOS keyboard app will give you all the Unicode characters you’ll ever need." – lifehacker “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 “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 ◤ 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* ◉ Go 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 ◉ Ask Siri questions about a Unicode character ◉ 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 ● Drag and Drop ● Keyboard shortcuts and menu bar on iPad ● 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!

Are you frequently wanting to type characters that aren't in standard keyboards? I know I was, and didn't want to pay extra just to get to the characters I needed. So I wrote YooniKey, a full Unicode® browser application and an embedded keyboard that can be used by any application. Both the app and the keyboard offer a searchable list of Unicode® code blocks and code points. Keyboard highlights: ⁍Quickly jump to any code block, sorted by name or natural position. ⁍When searching in the keyboard, a simple ASCII keyboard appears that allows you to type the limited characters allowed in code point names. ⁍See and type favorite and recently used code points. ⁍Long-press on a code point for more information about it. Releasing with your finger inside the info balloon will filter on the tapped code point's related code points. That makes for fast, simple exploration without having to visit the app! App highlights: ⁍Quickly jump to any code block, sorted by name or natural position. ⁍Customize the index shown on the right for even faster access to your favorite code blocks. ⁍Tap on a code point for more information about it, include its hex value, name, aliases, and related characters. ⁍Long-press a code point to add it to or remove it from favorites or to filter on its related code points. ⁍Long-press on a related character in the info area to look up that code point, include its hex value, name, and related characters. ⁍Tap code points to enter them into the edit field, then tap the Copy to Pasteboard button so your text can be pasted elsewhere. ⁍Styled alphabet converter makes it easy to create custom text in assorted typefaces found in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols code block. Unicode and the Unicode Logo are registered trademarks of Unicode, Inc. in the United States and other countries.