Free Emoji Picker & Search

The Emoji Picker is a free online tool that lets you search, browse, and copy emojis by category from a complete emoji library.

Yes, the Emoji Picker is completely free with no registration required. It runs entirely in your browser.

Simply click on any emoji in the Emoji Picker to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it anywhere you need.

Absolutely. The Emoji Picker & Search processes everything client-side in your browser. No data is uploaded to or stored on any server. Your content remains private on your device at all times.

Yes, the Emoji Picker & Search is fully responsive and works on smartphones and tablets. You can use it on any device with a modern web browser -- no app download required.

No account or registration is needed. Simply open the Emoji Picker & Search in your browser and start using it immediately. There are no sign-up walls or usage restrictions.

Yes, the Emoji Picker & Search handles text of any length with fast, real-time processing. Since everything runs in your browser, performance depends on your device but works well for most use cases.

The Emoji Picker & Search works in all modern browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Opera. For the best experience, use the latest version of your preferred browser.

Each emoji is a single Unicode code point, but the picture you see is drawn by the font on your own device. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung each ship their own emoji artwork, so the same character can appear as a slightly different face, color, or style depending on where it is viewed. The grinning face you copy on Windows will still read as a grinning face on someone's iPhone, because the underlying code point is identical everywhere -- only the artwork changes. That is why the picker renders emojis using your device's font and why a copied emoji may not match the preview your recipient sees. To check the exact character behind any glyph, click an emoji and read its U+ code point, which never varies between platforms.

A shortcode is the colon-wrapped text name for an emoji, like :fire: or :grinning:, that apps such as Slack, Discord, GitHub, and many forums automatically expand into the matching picture as you type. It is useful when you are writing in a plain-text field that does not have an emoji keyboard, or when you want your message to stay readable in raw form. This picker can copy any supported emoji as its shortcode instead of the raw character: choose the Shortcode format, then click the emoji to copy text like :rocket: straight to your clipboard. You can also search by shortcode, so typing rofl finds the rolling-on-the-floor-laughing face even when that word is not in its formal Unicode name. Pick the format once and it is remembered for your next visit.

Emojis that show people or hands -- waves, thumbs up, raised hands, and similar gestures -- support five skin-tone variations plus the default yellow, following the Unicode standard. In this picker you select a tone once from the skin-tone options, and it is applied automatically to every supported emoji and remembered for future visits, so you do not have to reset it each time. Behind the scenes, the chosen tone adds a modifier character to the base emoji, which is why the copied result is slightly longer than a plain face. Note that purely symbolic emojis like hearts, stars, or food do not have skin tones, so the setting only affects human and hand gestures. Browse the People category, set your preferred tone, and click any gesture to copy it ready to paste.

Pasting a raw emoji character into source files can cause encoding problems, so developers usually reference emojis by their code point instead. This picker copies in the exact format you need: choose HTML entity to get a hexadecimal reference like 😀 for use in markup, or choose CSS content to get the escaped form such as \1F600 for a content property on a pseudo-element. There is also a Unicode option that returns the formal U+1F600 notation, which is handy for documentation, bug reports, and font work. Just select the format, click the emoji, and the correctly escaped value lands on your clipboard, no manual conversion required. Your chosen format is saved between visits, so if you live in code points the picker defaults to them every time you open it.

You rarely need the exact Unicode name, because the search box matches on an emoji's name, its descriptive keywords, and its shortcode all at once. Type a plain word like laugh, fire, or heart and the matching emojis appear instantly, even if that word is not part of the formal name -- searching lol surfaces the face with tears of joy, for example. If you have no specific word in mind, browse the ten categories instead: Smileys, People, Hearts, Animals, Food, Travel, Activities, Objects, Symbols, and Flags. The tool also remembers your favorites and your last 30 copied emojis, so the ones you reach for most stay within easy reach. Press the slash key anywhere on the page to jump straight to the search box and start typing right away.