Qmoji

A lightning fast emoji picker for macos, written in swift

Features

• dark mode support
• shows up instantly (no slow animation)
• customizable shortcut
• fuzzy matching on emoji name & keywords
• remembers most frequently used emojis
• option to display at mouse cursor
• tiny disk size (under 3mb)
• easy on the ram (under 50mb)

Troubleshooting

After upgrading (or rebuilding locally), be sure to go to Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility and re-authorize qmoji! uncheck & check the box, otherwise it won't be able to send characters to other applications.

Inspired by the excellent mojibar.

Installation

• go to the releases page
• download qmoji.zip & unzip it
• right-click qmoji.app & select "open" (because it's not signed, double-clicking won't work the first time)
• you should see a 🙃 in your statusbar
• if you want to use the default shortcut (cmd+opt+space), you'll need to disable the macos "show a finder search window" shortcut like so https://twitter.com/ThomasAlcala/status/1088710623708565504
• go forth and emoji ⚡ 🏎

Controls

Keyboard:

• trigger with option-cmd-space
• tab & shift-tab or arrow keys to move the selection
• enter to use the current emoji (it types it into the topmost application for you)
• escape to clear the search text, or if it's empty then it closes the window

Mouse:

• click an emoji to select it
• right-click an emoji to remove from "recently used" list

Contributing

• Xcode, it should build & run without any issues (no third-party libraries used)