Emojis & Smileys Picker - Copy and Paste
Browse every emoji by category or search by name. Click any emoji or smiley to copy it to your clipboard and add it to the box above.
This is a full emoji picker that works entirely in your browser. The emoji are organized into the same categories you know from your phone - smileys & people, animals & nature, food & drink, activity, travel & places, objects, symbols and flags. Click a category icon to jump to it, or type in the search box to find an emoji by name or shortcode such as :smile:, :heart: or :fire:.
Click any emoji or smiley to copy it to your clipboard and add it to the box at the top, so you can collect several and copy the whole line at once. The emoji you use are remembered on this device and shown under Recently used, so your favourites are always one click away.
Emoji are ordinary Unicode characters, so a copied emoji pastes into almost anything - chat apps, social media, documents, file names or code comments. Each one renders in the native style of the device that displays it, which is why the same emoji can look a little different on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. The shortcode shown for each emoji (for example :thumbsup:) is the same name used on GitHub, Slack and Discord, where typing it between colons inserts the emoji.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Click any emoji and it is copied to your clipboard straight away - just paste it wherever you need with Ctrl+V (or Cmd+V on a Mac). Each emoji you click is also added to the box at the top, so you can gather several and copy the whole line at once.
Pick a category with the icons above the grid - smileys, animals, food, activities, travel, objects, symbols or flags - or type in the search box to filter by name or shortcode, for example smile, :fire:, heart or cat. The emoji you use most are kept under Recently used at the top.
Use the button next to the search box and choose one of six tones - the default plus five skin tones. The choice applies to every emoji that supports it (hands, people and gestures) and is remembered on this device for your next visit.
They are emoji shortcodes - the same names used on GitHub, Slack and Discord, where typing the name between colons (for example :thumbsup: or :tada:) inserts the emoji. Here they double as search terms and as a label so you know exactly which emoji you are picking.
Emoji are ordinary Unicode characters, not images. When you copy one you copy the character itself, and each device draws it in its own style - so Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each render the same emoji a little differently. The meaning stays the same everywhere.
Almost anywhere that accepts text: chat and messaging apps, social media posts, email, documents, spreadsheets, file and folder names, and even code comments. If the place you paste into has an emoji font, the picture shows; if not, you still get the correct character.
Yes on both counts. It is completely free and runs entirely in your browser - there is nothing to install or sign up for. Your recently used emoji and your skin-tone choice are stored only on your device and are never sent to a server.
A smiley (or smiley face) is the classic round face - here it is the faces category at the very start of the picker, alongside gestures, hearts and people. Emoji is the whole set: besides the smileys you also get animals, nature, food, activities, travel, objects, symbols and flags. So whether you are after a smiley face or any other emoji, you copy and paste it the same way - all the smileys and every emoji in one place.
On Windows 10 and 11, press Win+. (period) or Win+; (semicolon) to open the system emoji panel. On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space (or the fn key on newer keyboards), or choose Emoji & Symbols from the Edit menu. Those are your operating system's own emoji and smiley pickers. This page is the handy alternative when the shortcut is turned off (work or school computers), on older systems, or in any browser - and you can copy emoji the built-in panel sometimes misses.