Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A simple hack to highlight questionable unicode launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1IM
   I made a better search for Unicode characters▲9

   2020 · glyphfinder.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Unicode Text Converter▲185

   𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔… #famouslastwords

   2014 · qaz.wtf · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters▲206

   I made a free tool that stuns LLMs with invisible Unicode characters. *Use cases:* Anti-plagiarism, text obfuscation against LLM scrapers, or just for fun! Even just one word's worth of “gibberified” text is enough to block most LLMs from responding coherently.

   Nov 2025 · gibberifier.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Redacted Font▲104

   Keep your wireframes free of distracting Lorem Ipsum

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5UO
   UnicodeForUs, open-source repository of fun unicode characters▲5

   2012 · unicodefor.us · its alternatives →

6. 6RT
   “rich text” for Twitter via unicode▲5

   2015 · bedazzle.gordn.org · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Unicode Steganography▲59

   I built a demo of two Unicode steganography techniques, zero-width characters and homoglyph substitution, in the context of AI misalignment. The first is about the use of two invisible zero-width characters (ZWS and ZWNJ) to binary encode text. The second is much cooler. Most characters in the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets look nearly identical, but have different unicode. If you have text to encode and convert it into binary representation (1s and 0s), you could take plain english "carrier" text and for each 1 in the binary representation you could substitute the Cyrillic letter equivalent.…

   Apr 2026 · steganography.patrickvuscan.com · its alternatives →

8. 8AB
   A browser extension for simple font inspection▲8

   2018 · fontanello.oktavilla.se · its alternatives →

9. 9IM
   I made a faster way to pick 30k+ Unicodes▲6

   2022 · getmumu.com · its alternatives →

10. 10UF
    Unicode Fonts for iOS/Web▲5

    2014 · sprezzkeyboard.com · its alternatives →

11. 11DA
    Diffboard, a pastebin alternative with diffs▲5

    2012 · diffboard.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal▲9

    feast your eyes

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    CleanGPT▲9

    Clean hidden unicode characters from ChatGPT outputs.

    2025 · cleangpt.website · its alternatives →

14. 14TG
    Try Google fonts in Style▲8

    2017 · typehero.now.sh · its alternatives →

15. 15CB
    Creating beautiful letters using a web form and LaTeX▲8

    2016 · letters.koenvangilst.nl · its alternatives →

16. 16TP
    The Polyglot Bible Typography Project▲9

    2016 · dodecaglotta.com · its alternatives →

17. 17IT
    Instant Text Rephrasing as You Type▲6

    2024 · typeof.us · its alternatives →

18. 18FC
    Font Combiner Unicode Kickstarter▲6

    2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

19. 19GT
    GIF to ASCII Art▲9

    2023 · gifcii.fun · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Hacker News Post Coloring Extension to Chromium▲5

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21ML
    My Leeds Hack Day project, a language detection API▲9

    2010 · polyglossy.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Programmers Clipboard▲5

    Copy unicode characters in different formats

    2016 · programmersclipboard.vercel.app · its alternatives →

23. 23UL
    Unicode Lookup – A fast, simple, and quick Unicode lookup tool▲11

    2021 · unicode.emnudge.dev · its alternatives →

24. 24EE
    Early English Print N-Gram Browser▲9

    2014 · earlyprint.wustl.edu · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →