Privacy Policy

Comoji is built privacy-first. It processes keystrokes locally only to detect emoji shortcuts. Message contents are never uploaded, raw typed text is never logged, and the core app makes no network calls.

What Comoji does on your Mac

To turn :liz into 🦎, Comoji watches keyboard input for colon-prefixed tokens, then inserts the chosen emoji into the active text field using synthetic backspaces and a temporary clipboard paste. All of this happens on-device.

What Comoji does not do

• It does not record, store, or transmit what you type.
• It does not upload message contents or text-field contents anywhere.
• It does not require an account and includes no telemetry by default.
• It ignores secure (password) fields, and a built-in list of password managers, terminals, and remote/VM clients.

Data stored locally

Comoji keeps a small amount of data on your Mac to make the app useful: your settings, any custom aliases you create, your default skin-tone preference, and recent-use counts that improve ranking. This data stays on your device and is never sent to us.

Clipboard

Emoji insertion uses the system clipboard briefly and then restores your previous clipboard contents. Clipboard managers may momentarily observe this activity. No clipboard data is collected by Comoji.

Permissions

Comoji requests macOS Input Monitoring (to detect emoji shortcuts) and Accessibility (to read the active text field and insert the emoji). These permissions are used solely for the functionality described above.

Stickers

The optional /sticker feature in Messages is the one part of Comoji that uses the network. A popular set of stickers ships with the app; the rest are fetched from Google’s emoji CDN the first time you use them and then cached on your Mac. Only the sticker artwork is requested, never your message contents or anything you type. Sticker artwork is Google’s Noto Animated Emoji (CC BY 4.0).

Website analytics

This website may use privacy-respecting, aggregate analytics to understand general traffic. The Comoji app itself contains no analytics.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email hello@comoji.io.