UniChar — Unicode Keyboard

• Free to download
• In-app purchases

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.7 1603 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Finally, the Software Unicode Dorks Deserve

   I’ve nev­er under­stood why I nev­er see any­one mak­ing use of the vast cat­a­logue of near­ly 140,000 stan­dard Uni­code sym­bols avail­able in their social media posts, meta­da­ta, or word art. Like replac­ing stan­dard bul­lets in our week­ly newslet­ter with ◎ (U+25CE,) — prob­a­bly my all-time favorite, or using strings of four char­ac­ters for intro, ad, and sta­tion iden­ti­fi­ca­tion spots on our online radio. (☉☉☉☉, for instance.) I’d like to think these uses make their expe­ri­ences feel just a bit more unique to users — if only uncon­scious­ly — but I’d long won­dered if I was in fact the last Uni­code enthu­si­ast alive. Con­trary to what may seem obvi­ous, UniChar’s char­ac­ter selec­tor is by far the more intu­itive and effi­cient of these two sep­a­rate ways to use it. Even in the free expe­ri­ence, there are sim­ply too many char­ac­ters in the cat­a­log to rea­son­ably browse in iOS’ old extend­ed key­board. (For the record, I’d like to note that UniChar is tech­ni­cal­ly a “Ref­er­ence Appli­ca­tion,” but I under­stand if you can’t bring your­self to use the term.) Across both the seam­less­ly-inter­change­able gallery and list views, the user can very quick­ly copy a char­ac­ter to the clip­board with 3D Touch, which works so well it’s as if it were meant only for this use from its begin­ning. In the off chance you’re a long­time lover and devout user of the grander Uni­code col­lec­tion and an iOS user, I hope you’re now expe­ri­enc­ing the same sort of pet­ty enthu­si­asm I felt myself when I dis­cov­ered it. If not, I hope you’ll take away a desire to explore it. I mean… aren’t these smi­leys way bet­ter than any emo­ji? ☺︎☺︎☺︎

   NeoYokel · 31 Jul 2026

2. 5/5Awesome App! ☻★♡♥︎☆ + I have a question

   I love that there is thousands of symbols and digits to choose from! I have already used about 250+ different symbols from here! I think this is an amazing app with an amazing creator, I can’t wait to see what comes in the next updates! 😁😆😄 Question: Is the app logo copyrighted? I’m asking this because I’m making a fandom about your app and I just wanted to know to see if I could add the logo to one of my articles. Thank you for your time, I hope you have a great day! ♡♥︎⭐︎☆★ Edit: Hi, I have another question. When was the HISbD (Help Improve Search by Drawing) feature implemented? Thank you for answering my question, it really means a lot to me ❤️

   olli3 wolli3 · 31 Jul 2026

3. 4/5Very useful. A little messy.

   This keyboard is a real timesaver for entering international currency symbols, foreign language characters and all those commonly-used symbols missing from my ASCII keyboard (°©®¢). The user experience is a bit messy, however. The categories are so large. I suggest more focused categories. For example, a category for greeks, rather than only including them in different big categories like Phonetic and No (number). Also, I would really like to be able to hide Recents from the keyboard because the keyboard real estate is so limited. There is room for 35 visible characters in the keyboard without scrolling. I suggest that the category icons at the bottom of the keyboard be redefined to open an instance of the UniChar keyboard app preloaded to the selected category, allowing in-context selection of any char in that category (not just those set up as visible). That way, the keyboard itself becomes the user’s “favorites”, but any char can be searched for and entered easily without going through copy-and-paste.

   Scotty-the-Elder · 31 Jul 2026

4. 5/5Great app with an amazing team behind it

   You can only switch from Unichar to another keyboard using the lower left keyboard button. If an app is not updated for use on the iPhone X the bottom bar where that button would be is just a black bar and the button doesn't exist therefore the only way to change it is to go to settings and delete unichar/reinstall unichar. The default keyboard moves the button to the original position when an app isn't compatible. Used this keyboard a lot on my previous phone, but it's a pain in its current state. Update: 1 day after posting my review the developer addressing the issue and the next day an update fixing it was released. Great work.

   johnsenestate · 31 Jul 2026

5. 5/5Thank you Jordan! Best app ever

   Thanks to the developer for this amazing app. I'm amazed how seemingly impossible it is to find a unicode/symbols keyboard for iOS literally all of them are trash. And even more annoying because you can get it on macOS but thankfully I found this app it's seemless so well designed. Spent the extra few bucks because the developer definitely deserves it thank you for serving a part of the app store that's clearly been in need for a well developed unicode application without endless ads or constant dropping off from the keyboard menu. Keep up the good work

   k.money_ · 31 Jul 2026

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