Slack- and Discord-style :emoji: autocomplete, everywhere on your Mac.

Messages is the flagship, but Comoji works in most native and web text fields, Mail, Notes, TextEdit, Safari, Chrome, Arc, Slack, Discord, Notion and more. It uses synthetic backspace + paste, so it doesn’t depend on each app exposing perfect text APIs.

No. Comoji processes keystrokes locally only to detect emoji shortcuts. Message contents are never uploaded, raw typed text is never logged, and there are no network calls in the core app. The exceptions are the optional sticker and GIF features: stickers download artwork from Google’s emoji CDN the first time you use one, and GIFs send the word you search to GIPHY to fetch matching results. Both move only the search word and the artwork you pick, never any message or typed text. Secure password fields are always ignored.

Input Monitoring lets Comoji notice when you type a shortcut like :lizard, and Accessibility lets it read the active text field and insert the emoji. These are standard for Mac productivity utilities. Comoji explains both during a short onboarding and shows live grant status.

Yes. In Preferences › Privacy you can add any app to a disabled list, and any website domain (like github.com, subdomains included) where Comoji should stand down in your browser. Password managers, terminals and VMs are excluded by default, and the menu bar shows when Comoji is disabled in the current app or site. Website detection works in Safari, Chrome, Edge, Arc, Brave and AI browsers like Comet and ChatGPT Atlas.

Yes. If the colon gets in your way, pick a different token-opening key, semicolon, slash, backslash, @, #, ~ or |, in Preferences › Shortcuts. Everything updates to match: the suggestion popover, the in-app examples, and the double-tap browser.

Type your trigger key twice, :: by default, to open a large, searchable emoji browser. Search or arrow through the full set, press Return to insert, and it drops the emoji right back into the field you were typing in.

Yes, in the Messages app. Type /sticker, then a search word, to bring up a big library of animated stickers, then arrow over and press Return to drop one into your conversation. A popular set ships with the app for offline use; the rest stream from Google’s open Noto emoji set the first time you use them, then cache locally. Animated stickers stay animated once the message is sent.

Yes, in the Messages app. Type /gif, then a search word, to pull up matching GIFs from GIPHY, arrow over and press Return to drop one into your conversation. Results stream live from GIPHY and cache locally, and the picker shows GIPHY attribution. Like stickers, GIFs only fetch the artwork you pick — never any message or typed text.

Yes. Comoji checks for new versions in the background and, when one is ready, shows a quiet Update button in the menu bar instead of an interrupting pop-up. Every update is Developer ID signed and cryptographically verified before it installs, then the app relaunches in place. Prefer to update by hand? Switch off “Keep Comoji up to date” in Preferences and check whenever you like.

It’s built to favor false negatives over false positives. The token buffer resets aggressively, on clicks, arrow keys, app switches and invalid characters, and Tab/Return are only intercepted while the popover is visible. If Comoji isn’t sure, it does nothing.

Comoji is a direct download for macOS 13 Ventura or later. It’s Developer ID signed and notarized, download the DMG, drag it to Applications, and grant the two permissions on first launch.

Free. Comoji is a small, focused Mac utility, no account, no subscription, no cloud service.