What each app does to your emoji

Which emoji survive each app, what it replaces or counts, and sets to copy for each one.

The apps

2 sets worth keeping

These are picks rather than measurements. The first set is made of shapes every vendor draws roughly the same way; the second is faces and hands whose expression moves between sets. See both for yourself on the platform comparison.

The part nobody can fix from your end

An emoji is a character, and every app draws it with whichever set it ships. You can pick emoji whose meaning survives the redraw, and you can count the characters before a field refuses them, but you cannot make the picture the same for everybody. That is worth knowing before an emoji carries the weight of a sentence.

The emoji counter measures a draft against each of these limits, and the emoji list is where to pick from.

More catalogs

Reading about an emoji, and using one

A catalog tells you what an emoji means and copies it for you. Emojery is what turns it into a reaction on the page you found it for, next to everyone else's.