Save as Snippet - July 18, 2026

• Add 'Save as Snippet' action

Bugfix - June 24, 2026

• Center symbols in Grid view on Raycast 2.0 for macOS (ref: #28943)

Add README - February 10, 2026

• Add README to explain to users how to configure the extension, in order to prevent unnecessary issues to be opened.

Update Keyboard Shortcuts - December 18, 2025

• Update keyboard shortcuts for Windows compatibility
• Change the "copy" and "paste" shortcuts to not clash with native shortcuts (ref: Issue #23441)

Bugfix - October 30, 2025

• Fixing an issue where it is filtered out characters because of improper search logic (ref: #22508)

Bugfix - October 13, 2025

• Fixing an issue where the extension does not show proper icons in the Grid view on Windows (ref: #22082)
• Remove encode, opting for a built-in method instead
• Add Favorites functionality
• Improve search performance
• Add Copy (Unicode Escape) to Clipboard action
• Refactor code to use hooks and clean up the codebase

Improvements - October 10, 2025

• Added Windows support as this is not using any macOS specific APIs

Improvements - September 24, 2025

• Update to unidata16 to version 1.1.0, which contains a bit more info
• Improve generate script to add back Tab and add mirror and age code
• Update Grid/List item actions to reset filters on the top
• Search for number in the 1/2 format as well

Improvements - September 17, 2025

• Update to unidata16 to version 1.0.0, which contains the latest Unicode data set (version 17.0.0)
• Add additional Latin Extended blocks to the dataset
• Add previous "CHARACTER TABULATION" (tab whitespace character) change to the 'generate' scripts so it isn't lost in future updates
• Update dev dependencies

Improvements - July 20, 2025

• Added the "CHARACTER TABULATION" (tab whitespace character) to the datasets.

Improvements - December 17, 2024

• Added option to set Primary Action (copy/paste) - (#15901)
• Updated (dev) dependencies

Improvements - October 11, 2024

• Updated the paste action to dynamically show the name and icon of the frontmost application.

Improvements - September 30, 2024

• Added full dataset with option in settings to enable/disable. Full Dataset contains +40.000 characters. This is only supported in Grid view.
• Added option to copy the optional HTML entity of the selected character (e.g. &)
• Added a browser view for the character in compart
• Made the JSON files smaller by renaming the fields. This does break the cache, so the cache key is renamed to recently-used-v2

Improvements - September 20, 2024

• Added extra characters to Superscript and Subscript set (#14533)
• This is purely a visual thing, doesn't change the actual character sets
• Also added an indicator to show that this character is actually in a different set
• Fixed an issue where the extension breaks on Ancient Symbols in List Mode (#14562)
• Improved search, wasn't properly filtering characters in Fuse.js
• Updated to unidata16, which uses the latest 16.0.0 Unicode data
• Updated dependencies

Filter irrelevant characters - May 21, 2024

• Added a filter to remove irrelevant characters from the list (#12487)

Added Latin Extended Additional - March 11, 2024

• Added the Latin Extended Additional character set, totalling to 5195 characters
• Updated dependencies

Added symbol search - February 8, 2024

• Added the ability to search for the exact symbol. This works with the integer code (e.g. U+1F600), the hex code (e.g. 1F600) or the symbol itself (e.g. 😀).
• Bumped dependencies
• Minor bugfix: Not showing the following symbols correctly in grid: &<>

Minor bugfix - December 13, 2023

• Fixed a minor bug that breaks the item grid over cached items (#9664)

Major refactor - December 1, 2023

• Upgraded @raycast/api@^1.63.0 and other dependencies
• Added 'Grid' view (now the default view)
• Added a Character set selector to the search bar
• Added an option to copy the HEX code of the selected character (used in development of html/css)
• Added an option to copy the HTML entity of the selected character (used in development of html)
• Added extra character sets, totalling to 4940 characters
• Refactored a large portion of the code to make it more maintainable
• Updated screenshots

Added a few aliases - December 6, 2022

Added screenshots - November 17, 2022

Added some common symbols - March 21, 2022

• Added , ⌘, ⌥, ⏎, ⌫ to the list

Unicode Symbols extension - November 17, 2021

• Added first version of Unicode Symbols