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24 alternatives to Characters

Mac menu bar app for quick use of special characters.

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

1
Bartender▲616
Organize and hide menu bar items on your Mac
2014 · macbartender.com · its alternatives →
2
MenubarX▲474
A powerful menu bar browser. Pin websites like Native Apps.
2022 · menubarx.app · its alternatives →
3
Short Menu▲82
URL shortener for your Mac's menu bar
2016 · its alternatives →
4
Short Menu 3.0 for Mac▲199
The most powerful URL shortener for macOS
2017 · shortmenu.com · its alternatives →
5
Lacona▲645
Fast, simple, powerful keyboard-driven commands for Mac
2016 · lacona.io · its alternatives →
6
Bartender 4▲247
Award-winning app for macOS that superpowers your menu bar
2021 · macbartender.com · its alternatives →
7
Captain▲191
A Docker menu bar app for Mac
2017 · getcaptain.co · its alternatives →
8
BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar▲149
Getbitbar.com x M77CASINO membahas cerita di balik data dan tren angka: bagaimana catatan historis, perubahan pola, dan konteks membantu pembaca memahami informasi secara lebih terstruktur tanpa menjanjikan hasil tertentu.
2016 · getbitbar.com · its alternatives →
9
EasyFinder▲108
Mac menu bar app to help access your important files fast
2019 · easyfinderapp.com · its alternatives →
10
Bartender 2▲301
Organize and hide menu bar items on your Mac
2015 · macbartender.com · its alternatives →
11
Prompt Library▲331
All your best prompts. One shortcut away.
Feb 2026 · prompt-library.app · its alternatives →
12
Tyke▲362
Mac menu bar app that @torrez really needed to take notes
2017 · tyke.app · its alternatives →
13
Arthur▲271
Effortlessly optimize some of your Mac's hidden settings
2016 · its alternatives →
14
Pie Menu – a radial menu for macOS▲309
Hi everyone! I'm Marius Hauken, an indie developer, and I'm excited to share my app: Pie Menu. It offers a fresh way to access your favorite menu bar commands and keyboard shortcuts on macOS. By simply pressing a hotkey you choose during setup, a radial menu appears around your cursor, customized to the current active application. This allows you to quickly select commands without having to remember complex shortcuts across different applications. Pie Menu comes with a library of preprogrammed commands for popular apps, but you can easily add any app on your computer. We've also created an…
2024 · pie-menu.com · its alternatives →
15
One▲414
Read Product Hunt, HN, DN, Reddit, Medium from Mac menu bar
2014 · one.hackplan.com · its alternatives →
16
Mac TODO Menubar▲144
All your todos easily accessible from your menu bar!
2018 · its alternatives →
17
Pasta▲290
Clipboard time machine
2019 · getpasta.com · its alternatives →
18
Hemingboard Mac▲219
Puns, synonyms, rhymes in any app. Now for Mac.
2016 · its alternatives →
19
Quick Note▲149
Colorful sticky notes for Mac
2024 · quicknoteapp.com · its alternatives →
20
Jot▲115
Simplest notes app for the Mac Menu Bar the world has seen.
2020 · getjot.app · its alternatives →
21
Chars 2▲84
Note-taking with Unicode
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
22
Quick Access▲112
Organise files in the Mac menu bar
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
23
Annotate▲193
Menubar app to draw on any app or screen on macOS
2024 · getannotate.com · its alternatives →
24
Symbar▲76
Quick access to SF Symbols from your menu bar
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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