Apps to Unicode Support

Beyond Compare is a powerful and flexible utility for comparing files and folders. It highlights differences in text, code, images, and binary data, and provides robust tools for merging changes, synchronizing directories, and creating snapshots for archiving.

MP3 Diags is a powerful and free GUI application designed to analyze and repair various issues within MP3 files. It helps users manage large music collections by identifying incorrect metadata, corrupted tags, and other structural problems.

TextCrawler is a robust and versatile text manipulation tool designed for batch processing across multiple files. It excels at searching, replacing, and transforming text using powerful features like regular expressions.

RichCopy was a robust, multithreaded file copy utility from Microsoft, designed to handle complex file transfer tasks with greater speed and reliability than the standard Windows copy function. It offered advanced features ideal for IT professionals and power users.

WinHex is a powerful hexadecimal editor, disk editor, and data recovery tool for Windows. It provides advanced functionalities for file analysis, digital forensics, and low-level data handling on various storage media.

Puddletag is a free and open-source audio tag editor designed for managing and organizing large music collections. It supports a wide range of audio formats and offers powerful features for batch editing, automatic tagging, and file renaming.

ConnectBot is a robust, open-source Secure Shell (SSH) client tailored for the Android operating system. It enables users to securely connect to remote servers, execute commands, and manage systems directly from their mobile devices, offering support for SSH, Telnet, and a local terminal emulator.

Bandizip is a fast and reliable free archive utility for Windows, offering robust compression and decompression capabilities for a wide range of formats including ZIP, RAR, 7Z, and more. It supports encryption, Unicode, and features a user-friendly interface with shell integration and a built-in viewer.

TextWrangler was a widely-used, free text and code editor for macOS, renowned for its simplicity, reliability, and powerful features derived from its professional sibling, BBEdit. It offered a clean interface suitable for both basic text editing and light coding tasks.