ROCKET: BLAST YOUR WAY THROUGH THE DIFFICULTY OF INSERTING EMOJI ON A MAC

If you like emoji, it's easy to find and insert them in apps like Discord, Messages, and Slack and on many websites, particularly social media ones like Facebook and Twitter, which commissioned emoji drawings unique to their products. But outside of apps and sites that embrace emoji, macOS offers a convoluted process to access them otherwise.

- GLENN FLEISHMAN

Rocket (fave.co/3GJ8Xtm) blasts its way into that gap. This simple utility provides the same simplicity as in Slack in typing a colon, part of an emoji name, and pressing a completion key (like Return) to insert it. For instance, type:rocket and press Return, and there's a You can change the trigger key from a colon or require typing the trigger twice to invoke the emoji picker.

The free flavor of the app matches names with an option in preferences to enable fuzzy search. It relies on the common names of emoji for matching, or the app matches names with an option in preferences to enable fuzzy search.