Emoji Picker is an emoji browsing tool which uses the emoji matching code from ibus-typing-booster.
ibus-typing-booster contains an “emoji-picker” tool which can be used independently from ibus-typing-booster, i.e. even when ibus-typing-booster is not running.
This is free and open source software.
Website: mike-fabian.github.io/ibus-typing-booster
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Mike Fabian
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Emoji Picker is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

Features of ibus-typing-booster include:
- Context sensitive completions.
- Learns from user input.
- Can be trained by supplying files containing typical user input.
- If available, hunspell and hunspell dictionaries will also be used to provide not only completion but also spellchecking suggestions (But ibus-typing-booster works also without hunspell by learning only from user input).
- Can be used with any keyboard layout.
- Almost all input methods supplied by libm17n are supported (including the inscript2 input methods).
- Several input methods and languages can be used at the same time without switching.
- Predicts Unicode symbols and emoji as well.
Related Software
| GUI Emoji Pickers | |
|---|---|
| Feeling Finder | Simple but very effective emoji picker written in Dart and C++ |
| Smile | Emoji picker with custom tags support |
| Emote | Written in GTK3, the program is lightweight and stays out of your way |
| Emoji Mart | Modern emoji picker |
| Xmoji | Plain X11 emoji keyboard |
| jome | Provides most of the interesting emojis of Emoji 13.1 |
| Emoji Picker | Part of ibus-typing-booster, completion input method for faster typing |
| Emoji Selector | GNOME extension provides a searchable popup menu with most emojis |
| Flemozi | Simple, fast and lightweight emoji picker |
| wofi-emoji | Simple emoji selector for Wayland using wofi |
| bemoji | Emoji picker that remembers your favorites |
| x11-emoji-picker | Dialog / emoji picker inspired by the Windows 10 emoji picker |
| Mingle | Play with Google’s Emoji Kitchen |
| HyprEmoji | Modern emoji picker for Hyprland |
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