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All supported emoji, easier browsing, less unnecessary work
- 3,953 emoji and variants: every fully qualified emoji and component in the Unicode Emoji 18.0 test list that renders as one emoji on the build Mac running macOS 26.5.1. Includes skin tones, mixed-tone handshakes, flags, families, and professions. Stickers, Genmoji, and custom Discord images are outside this catalog.
- Browse by category: open See similar, then choose All emoji or a category. The grid scrolls through the complete results and only builds visible rows. Hover a tile for its full shortcode.
- Lazy catalog loading: ordinary typing does not load or search the catalog. The keyboard listener stays registered to detect a colon; the catalog and search index initialize on the first shortcode search and remain cached. No repeating polling timer or background network requests.
- Faster lookup: precomputed search fields, direct exact-shortcode lookup, and cached related-emoji terms. Base emoji rank before skin-tone variants for general searches.
- Supports long variant shortcodes and prevents stale delayed results from reopening an old query.
All 10 tests pass, including exact lookup of every bundled emoji, variant coverage, category browsing, and startup without loading the catalog. The native grid was rendered and inspected. App signatures and installer integrity are verified.
Installation
Quit Shortmoji, download the DMG, and replace the app in Applications. Requires Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or later. The complete glyph set was checked on macOS 26.5.1; older systems can display fewer emoji. This build is locally signed, not Apple-notarized.
Data provenance
Unicode test data: https://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-test.txt
Downloaded snapshot SHA-256: 8f3735cda1f92a779d78af67cf86066bb1f07143dc22f2ac29394d9bc57ab21a.
Unicode and gemoji licenses are included in the app.