Emojist
Emoji and GIFs as you type. No picker, no scrolling
This is 1 of 74 launches in keyboards, keypads, and typing tools — see how it stacks up on momentum and crowding →
156 other launches read as similar to this one →
Details
- External ID
- 1266059
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Emojist
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7811795642374155
- Tags
- Emoji, GIFs, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 1 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 1 a.m.
Description
Emojist suggests emoji as you type, in the apps you already use. Type a word, a bar appears at your cursor, press a number. New in five updates since July: GIFs (type :: and a word), keywords of two or more words, one skin tone for every emoji, the most used emoji first, and no suggestions in address or search bars. Free for 7 days. Your typing is never stored. GIF search is off until you turn it on, then sends only the word after ::. The licence check contacts Lemon Squeezy.
Enrichment
- Theme
- keyboards, keypads, and typing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- inline emoji and gif replacer for typists
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial An OS-wide inline text predictor requires low-level accessibility hooks, caret position tracking, and native keystroke interception across diverse sandboxed desktop applications.
What it would actually take: Requires native OS development (Swift/Objective-C for macOS, C++/C# for Windows) utilizing low-level accessibility APIs like AXUIElement/CGEventTap or SetWindowsHookEx to detect active text contexts and floating caret coordinates. The system must inject floating overlay UI windows reliably across native, WebKit, and Electron-based apps without adding perceptible input latency or crashing the active process.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 156 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #35 of 157 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- Mojito · ph · 2026-05-27 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Photo From Emoji · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Steal-a-GIF · hn · 2026-06-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Emojisaurus · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- FindMyTok · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- EmojiMagic.io · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Cursed Emoji Reply · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- SpeechBubble Studio · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.