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:wave: About

Made by one person, for everyone who types

Use Emoji is an emoji keyboard for your browser, built by Artyom Shimanski, an independent developer, since 2025.

Why it exists

Emoji are the quickest way to add tone to a message, and still one of the slowest things to type on a computer. You stop, open a panel, scroll, search and click, and your train of thought is gone.

The first version of Use Emoji did one thing well: a picker in the toolbar that copies any emoji in one click. Version 1.1 added the other half. Type :fire: in any text box, on the sites you choose, and it becomes πŸ”₯ as you type, the way Slack and Discord have always let you. Kaomoji, symbols and codes of your own came with it.

How it is built

  • Free where it counts

    The picker is free forever, with no account and no limits. Pro only lifts the limits on typing and custom codes.

  • Private by design

    It runs only on the websites you allow, and codes are matched on your computer. What you type is never sent anywhere.

  • What you see is what it does

    The demos on this site run the extension’s own code, and every count on it comes from the product’s own data.

  • Yours to keep

    Your custom codes live in your browser. Export them as a file any time, and nothing is deleted if you cancel Pro.

Now try it where you write

Add Use Emoji, open a site you write on and type :fire:. The picker is one click away in your toolbar.