Emojito is a search box for every emoji, sticker and animated GIF you actually use - one keystroke away from whatever you are typing in, and one click from your clipboard.
Three tabs, one search field. Emoji comes from the full Unicode 17 set and works with no internet at all. Stickers are Google's Emoji Kitchen mashups. GIFs are 881 animated emoji. Nothing here asks you to register a developer key with anyone, and nothing here runs out.
Highlights
- Quick palette on a global shortcut - press Cmd-Shift-E anywhere, type two letters, hit Enter. The popover copies and disappears without you ever leaving the app you were in.
- 1,914 emoji, fully offline - the complete Unicode 17 catalogue with Unicode's own search keywords, so "shrug", "+1" and "party" all find what you mean. No network, ever.
- 147,000 Emoji Kitchen stickers - every mashup Google has drawn, searchable by ingredient. Type "cat", pick the cat, and see every sticker it appears in.
- GIFs that stay animated - the grid shows stills so it stays quick; hover one and it plays. Copying puts the real file on the clipboard, not a flattened still, so a paste into Slack, Messages, Mail or Notes still moves.
- Skin tones that stick - pick a tone once and all 323 tone-aware emoji follow it, in the main window and the palette alike.
- Recents and favourites - what you copy comes back to the top by itself, and anything you star stays one click away across all three tabs.
- No API keys, no quotas - every source is public and free. There is no developer key to register for, no token to paste into settings, and nothing that runs out halfway through the week.
- Built like a desktop app, not a web page - native title bar, system menu bar, a light and dark theme, Cmd-1/2/3 between tabs, and a close button that hides rather than quits.
How it works
Type in the one search field at the top. The Emoji tab filters as you type against Unicode's own keyword list. The Sticker tab asks which emoji you meant, then shows every Emoji Kitchen mashup that uses it. The GIF tab browses 881 animated emoji instantly, and will search the open web when you press Enter.
Clicking anything copies it. Emoji copy as text. Stickers and GIFs are downloaded once, kept on disk, and placed on the clipboard as real files, which is what lets a pasted GIF keep moving. Copy the same one again tomorrow and it comes straight from the cache, offline.
Where the pictures come from
Emoji and their search keywords are the Unicode 17 emoji list and the CLDR English annotations, both bundled with the app. Stickers are Google's Emoji Kitchen. Animations are Google's Noto Animated Emoji. None of them is metered, so nothing in the app can run out or ask you for a key.
Perfect for
- Anyone who lives in Slack - the palette is faster than the emoji picker you are using now, and it reaches stickers and GIFs too.
- Writers and designers - find an emoji by what it means rather than by scrolling a grid, and drop it into any app that takes text.
- People who are tired of API keys - if you have watched a GIF app die because its provider shut the door, this one has no door to shut.
- Anyone working offline - the entire emoji catalogue, your favourites and everything you have copied before all work with the network off.
