MacWorld Editors' Choice
Using a Mac without PopChar is like driving a BMW only in first gear or playing a piano with one hand.
Charles Ying,
founder of MyFonts.com PopChar X is so much easier to use than Apple's character viewer. It is a 'Mac Essential', the full-featured, well polished, champion of its class.
Jim Cole, Jacksonville, FL
With PopChar X, Ergonis delivers a program that is definitely one of the must-have Mac utilities.
macnotes.com It's a must have for anyone who deals with fonts on a daily basis. There are many font utilities out there, but this one is the leader of the pack!
macnation.com
Of all the neat utilities I have found for the Mac, one of the most useful has been PopChar X.
TheMacFeed.com I have been using PopChar since it first appeared in 1987. Twenty years and many versions later, I still use it!
Harry Babad, maccompanion.com I find it one of the most indispensable utilities on my Mac. It has always been great and just gets better and better.
Brian Wratten
Australia I've used PopChar for a long time. And it just keeps getting better. Super software. Simple to use. Reasonably priced.
Art Allen Stuart,
IA, USA
- Version:7.7.1
- Release Date: April 25, 2017
- System Req:Mac OS X 10.6 or newer
- Languages:
EN, DE, FR - Price: 29.99 €
PopChar X
Most of your fonts contain thousands of characters, many more than you can access from the keyboard.
If you want to get the most out of your fonts, then PopChar is the right tool for you.
PopChar makes "typing" of unusual characters easy without having to remember keyboard combinations.
Whenever you need a special character, PopChar is there to help.
Click the "P" in the menu bar to display a table of characters. Select the desired character and it instantly appears in your document.
PopChar works with all modern applications that support Unicode. It makes it easy to navigate and search within fonts that contain thousands of characters. Search for characters by their names, find fonts that contain certain characters, explore the character set of fonts, collect your favorite characters, insert HTML symbols. PopChar makes all these font-related tasks easy.
With PopChar, you can also take a look at fonts from a designer's perspective – see a font preview, check out what a given text fragment looks like in a certain font, and print beautiful font sheets.
Starting with PopChar 7, you can even find special characters by simply drawing them.
Words cannot describe the huge benefits PopChar offers to you. See yourself in this short demo movie.
Believe it or not - PopChar has now been around for 30 years. To read more about the milestones in the development of PopChar, see the History of PopChar.
Main features
- Inserts special characters right into your document.
- Full Unicode support
- Search for characters
- Find characters by drawing their shapes
- Find similar characters
- Custom favorites section
- Magnifier tool
- Work across font boundaries
- "Reverse search" for fonts that contain a particular character
- Recent characters view
- Font preview and sample text view
- Font information
- View and print font sheets
- More ...
Installation
To install PopChar X, download it from our downloads page. PopChar X is distributed as a macOS disk image (DMG). Once you have mounted the disk image, simply double-click the PopChar icon to install and launch PopChar.
As long as you do not have a license key, PopChar operates in trial mode with some special characters disabled. When you purchase a license key and enter it in the Registration window of PopChar X, the dimmed characters will immediately become active.