Rocket 1.9

Added a preference for fuzzy search to find emoji – switch it on in Rocket’s Preferences window
Added new emoji for macOS 12.1+
Fixed an issue with the Fun Stats window on macOS 12.1+
Rocket Tip Jar to help support development

Rocket 1.8.2

Added a new app icon for macOS Big Sur
Fixed an issue with inserting gifs into Messages on Big Sur
Fixed a bug where emojis would be imported into the “Custom” category instead of “Smileys & People”, or where they would receive their French translation (visit Rocket’s help page if you want instructions on how to fix this)
When you open the Browse and Search window, the search input will now automatically be focused
Improved the behaviour with opening the upgrade window multiple times
Improved the website flow when upgrading to Rocket Pro

Rocket 1.8.1

Added the ability to use a double trigger key (::wave) to help fight accidental activations
Significantly improved the speed of triggering Rocket so it’s lightning-fast
Fixed a bug where updates would spam your notifications
Fixed a bug where upgrading Rocket to Pro wouldn’t close the upgrade window

Rocket 1.8

Added support for macOS Big Sur
Added the new emoji released in macOS Big Sur
Improved the highlight style on the shortcut window
💰 Rocket Tip Jar: https://gumroad.com/l/PRjav

Rocket 1.8

Added support for macOS Big Sur
Added the new emoji released in macOS Big Sur
Improved the highlight style on the shortcut window
💰 Rocket Tip Jar: https://gumroad.com/l/PRjav

Rocket 1.7.4

Fixed an issue where all emoji would appear in the “Custom” category (go to the help page if you’ve noticed this issue and you want to fix it)

Rocket 1.7.3

Fixed an issue where Rocket would be positioned incorrectly in Chrome and web-based apps like Notion

Rocket 1.7.2 – Boosters & Snippets

Add the ability to delete Boosters after they've been added
Fixed an issue where accessibility settings could not be updated

Rocket 1.7.1 – Boosters & Snippets

Fix an issue where skin tone preferences would not be respected

Rocket 1.7 – Boosters & Snippets

Boosters – add tonnes more content and shortcuts with Rocket Boosters. Easily add ASCII emoticons like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, add math and legal symbols to Rocket, and add over 10,000 new shortcuts to Rocket's autocomplete.
Snippets – a new feature for Rocket Pro that lets you use Rocket as a text-expander application. That's right – Rocket can now auto-fill your text snippets. Get started in the Browse & Search window.
Fix Rocket's gifs/images functionality in Messages on macOS Catalina
Improvements to Rocket's accessibility, including the ability to override the system setting to turn off VoiceOver for Rocket.

Rocket 1.6.2

New emoji! This version of Rocket adds the new emoji for macOS Catalina.

It also has a refreshed UI and we've restored the ability to choose emoji with the mouse.

Please contact me at [email protected] if you have any issues.

Rocket 1.6.1

This version of Rocket introduces a new licensing mechanism for handling upgrades.

Rocket Pro is staying the same, but we are moving to a new service for activating licenses.

Please contact me at [email protected] if you have any issues.

Rocket for macOS Catalina

This version of Rocket adds important compatibility features for macOS Catalina.

Beta users: please install this update to help me validate the new update mechanism

This is a beta release to verify our new update distribution methods. If you run into any trouble, please contact me at [email protected]

This is a key update to install if you want to receive planned future updates to Rocket 🚀

This is a beta release because you are on the beta update channel. If you run into any trouble, please contact me at [email protected]

This version of Rocket changes how we publish and deliver updates, as well as introducing new licensing and security methods. (It's now self-hosted – no more third parties!)

Rocket 1.5

Rocket is now the world’s first emoji picker for blind people!

We’re extremely proud of the accessibility support we’ve added for people who can't see. VoiceOver users can now:

Select emoji using Rocket’s famous Slack-style emoji shortcuts
Use our revamped on-boarding tutorial for VoiceOver users
Browse and search through the emoji catalogue (Pro upgrade required)
Hear stats about their emoji usage (Pro upgrade required)

Sighted people won’t notice much of a change.

Beta Release – Rocket 1.5

Rocket is now the world’s first emoji picker for blind people.

We’re extremely proud of the accessibility support we’ve added for people who can't see. VoiceOver users can now:

Select emoji using Rocket’s famous Slack-style emoji shortcuts
Use our revamped on-boarding tutorial for VoiceOver users
Browse and search the full range of emoji (Pro upgrade required)
Hear stats about their emoji usage (Pro upgrade required)

Sighted people won’t notice much of a change.

New Emoji Day!

Today is my favourite day of the year… it’s new emoji day!

So grab your 🦘 or your 🦙, poke fun at the controversial 🥯, and let’s 🥳. Can’t see any of those emoji? Just do a software update on your Mac and you’ll get them 😉.

By the way, this update has a couple of little improvements in addition to the latest emoji.

Improved Fun Stats to be more positive
Fixed issue where Gifs would come first in Browse & Search

This is a beta release of Rocket.

New Emoji Day!

Today is my favourite day of the year… it’s new emoji day!

So grab your 🦘or your 🦙, poke fun at the controversial 🥯, and let’s 🥳. Can’t see any of those emoji? Just do a software update on your Mac and you’ll get them 😉.

By the way, this update has a couple of little improvements in addition to the latest emoji.

Improved Fun Stats to be more positive
Fixed issue where Gifs would come first in Browse & Search

Mojave and More!

This version of Rocket adds complete support for macOS Mojave, plus a tonne of great little improvements! 👏

Important note Rocket gives you more privacy control in this update. When you update to Mojave, you’ll get prompted to decide what level of access you want Rocket to have.

Changes

Add support for Dark Mode in macOS Mojave 😎
Add new privacy controls for browser access, so you can decide what access Rocket has.
UI improvements to the Fun Stats window
Improvements to the Browse & Search window, especially for gifs
Don't activate Rocket for ":P" and ":D" emoticons
Better handling for disabling Rocket in apps like IntelliJ, VSCode, PHPStorm, and Microsoft Teams
Better handling for when macOS decides to stop sending Rocket the events it needs. Rocket should be more reliable now.
Fixes new emoji like 🤩 not appearing in Mojave

Rocket Mojave Beta 2

This version of Rocket fixes a couple of issues from an earlier beta (thanks for your feedback!)

Fixes new emoji like 🤩not appearing in Mojave
Fixes an issue where Rocket would duplicate search characters after being triggered
Potential solution for AppleScript prompting issue

Rocket Mojave Beta 1

This version of Rocket adds complete support for macOS Mojave, plus a tonne of great little improvements!

Important note Rocket gives you more privacy control in this update. When the app is updated, you’ll get prompted to decide what level of access you want Rocket to have.

Add support for Dark Mode in macOS Mojave
Add new privacy controls for browser access, so you can decide what access Rocket has.
UI improvements to the Fun Stats window
Improvements to the Browse & Search window, especially for gifs
Don't activate Rocket for ":P" and ":D" emoticons
Better handling for disabling Rocket in apps like IntelliJ, VSCode, PHPStorm, and Microsoft Teams
Better handling for when macOS decides to stop sending Rocket the events it needs. Rocket should be more reliable now.

Rocket 1.4

👯‍♂️ This is a huuuge update to Rocket 👯‍♂️

Emoji Bullet List 💯

Use this to create emojified bullet point lists that’ll make your presentations, documents, and standup updates all a little more ✨. Get to it from the Rocket menu bar icon—it’s free for everyone.

Fun Stats for Pro Users 📊

Take a look at your Fun Stats to see some beautiful charts on how many emoji you’ve used, your top emoji, how many emoji you’ve ignored (😢), and more!

Send me your stats! (to @_matthewpalmer) I don't collect any real usage data (I feel like that’d be super creepy) so I'd love to see your stats. The best I've seen so far is like 3,000 emoji used 📈.

Better, Faster Shortcut Search ⚡

I’ve improved the “:thu”-style shortcut search so that searching matches from the ‘-’ in a shortcut. This makes it faster and easier to drill down to the exact emoji you want, rather than having to wade through the 300 options given to you by the old fuzzy search mechanism. Let me know what you think via the Feedback tab though!

Better Browse & Search 🔎

You can now see the whole 🌈 of skin tones when you choose an emoji in the Browse & Search window—even if you don’t have the preference tweaked! Double click one of these to quickly copy it to your clipboard.
You can set a keyboard shortcut to quickly open the Browse and Search window. Do this from Preferences > Advanced 💥

And more

Fixed an issue where some skin tone variations on an emoji wouldn’t appear in the Shortcut Search if you had that preference set
Fixed links to my help pages, and improved my help pages in case Rocket stops working or you need to disable VSCode Tweaked some text around the app to be a little clearer

Beta release #2, 1.4

This version of the beta:

Fixes an issue where incorrect counts were returned in Fun Stats
Fixes a display error in Fun Stats when system font variants were unavailable
Disables scrolling in the Fun Stats window
Fixes a rendering bug when a user had never used any emoji
Fixes a typo in the Emoji Bullet list menu item

Beta Release 1.4 #1

This is a mammoth update to Rocket, especially for Pro users!

Emoji Bullet List 💯

Fun Stats for Pro Users 📊

Take a look at your Fun Stats to see some beautiful charts on how many emoji you’ve used, your top emoji, how many emoji you’ve ignored (😢), and more!

Better, Faster Shortcut Search ⚡

Better Browse & Search 🔎

You can now see the whole 🌈 of skin tones when you choose an emoji in the Browse & Search window—even if you don’t have the preference tweaked! Double click one of these to quickly copy it to your clipboard.
You can set a keyboard shortcut to quickly open the Browse and Search window. Do this from Preferences > Advanced 💥

And more

Fixed an issue where some skin tone variations on an emoji wouldn’t appear in the Shortcut Search if you had that preference set
Fixed links to my help pages, and improved my help pages in case Rocket stops working or you need to disable VSCode
Tweaked some text around the app to be a little clearer

New emoji day!! 🎉🎉🎉

This version of Rocket adds the new emoji from Emoji 5.0 for people on macOS High Sierra 10.13.1+
It also adds the ability to bulk delete emojis and gifs in the Browse & Search window—just select the items you want to delete and then right-click and choose Delete

New emoji 🧡

My personal favourites include 🤮 (:vomit:), 🤨 (:raised-eyebrow:), 🧙 (:mage:), 🧘‍♂️ (:yoga:), and 🦒 (:giraffe:).

There are also two new contenders for the cutest-emoji-of-all-time-award 🦖 (:t-rex:) and 🦕 (:sauropod:)… Pro users might want to add a custom shortcut for that last dinosaur 🤪

🤫🧐🤩 — I’m excited, friends.

Beta Release Build 2

This build adds bulk deleting gifs and emoji in the Search & Browse window
This build fixes an issue where gender-specific emoji in the new set were not imported correctly

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New emoji day!! 🎉🎉🎉

This version of Rocket adds the new emoji from Emoji 5.0 for people on macOS High Sierra 10.13.1+

My personal favourites include 🤮 (:vomit:), 🤨 (:raised-eyebrow:), 🧙 (:mage:), 🧘‍♂️ (:yoga:), and 🦒 (:giraffe:).

There are also two new contenders for the cutest-emoji-of-all-time-award 🦖 (:t-rex:) and 🦕 (:sauropod:)… Pro users might want to add a custom shortcut for that last dinosaur 🤪

🤫🧐🤩 — I’m excited, friends.

Beta release

New emoji day!! 🎉🎉🎉

This version of Rocket adds the new emoji from Emoji 5.0 for people on macOS High Sierra 10.13.1+

My personal favourites include 🤮 (:vomit:), 🤨 (:raised-eyebrow:), 🧙 (:mage:), 🧘‍♂️ (:yoga:), and 🦒 (:giraffe:).

There are also two new contenders for the cutest-emoji-of-all-time-award 🦖 (:t-rex:) and 🦕 (:sauropod:)… Pro users might want to add a custom shortcut for that last dinosaur 🤪

🤫🧐🤩 — I’m excited, friends.

Improved disabled apps picker in Preferences

This version adds a new native app picker to disable Rocket for certain apps more smoothly, and you can now add and remove many apps at a time. It also makes "whitelisting" Rocket for only a small number of apps a lot easier.
Search by emoji in the Browse & Search window

Sometimes you know the emoji you want but you don't know what the shortcut is. Now you can search by emoji in the Browse & Search window.
Reliability and bug fixes

Rocket's triggering has been refined to be a bit more consistent, the Browse & Search UI has been improved, and other small bug fixes.

Beta Release 1.3.1

Improved disabled apps picker in Preferences

This version adds a new native app picker to disable Rocket for certain apps more smoothly, and you can now add and remove many apps at a time. It also makes "whitelisting" Rocket for only a small number of apps a lot easier.
Search by emoji in the Browse & Search window

Sometimes you know the emoji you want but you don't know what the shortcut is. Now you can search by emoji in the Browse & Search window.
Reliability and bug fixes

Rocket's triggering has been refined to be a bit more consistent, the Browse & Search UI has been improved, and other small bug fixes.

In the new version of Rocket, we sand off some rough edges, add a new setup guide for people using Rocket for the first time, and improve Rocket's performance.

In more detail

Add a new onboarding flow for people that haven't got Rocket's accessibility setting enabled
Add an Advanced preference item about hiding Rocket's menu bar icon
Add the ability to click on quick search results to insert emoji

Pro features

Double click on emoji in the full Search & Browse window to copy to your clipboard
Use keyboard shortcuts to close Rocket's Preferences and Search & Browse windows
Improve scrolling performance in the Search & Browse window
Fix some memory leaks in Rocket's core and the Search & Browse window

This is a beta version of Rocket

In the new version of Rocket, we sand off some rough edges, add a new setup guide for people using Rocket for the first time, and improve Rocket's performance.

In more detail

Add a new onboarding flow for people that haven't got Rocket's accessibility setting enabled
Add an Advanced preference item about hiding Rocket's menu bar icon
Add the ability to click on quick search results to insert emoji

Pro features

Double click on emoji in the full Search & Browse window to copy to your clipboard
Use keyboard shortcuts to close Rocket's Preferences and Search & Browse windows
Improve scrolling performance in the Search & Browse window
Fix some memory leaks in Rocket's core and the Search & Browse window

I added some new features to Rocket:

Added the ability to start Rocket at login
Added fuzzy search for shortcuts, so now if you type ":check" you’ll get ✅, ☑️, as well as the not-so-useful 🏁
Added the ability to deactivate Rocket on specific websites that already have an emoji picker, like Trello and Github
Allow users to override Rocket’s language to be different from the system default

Plus, a couple of bug fixes:

Improvements to the deactivation of Rocket's search window
Expanded French emoji translations

In this version, Rocket gets some super-useful new features:

Add a preference to start Rocket at login
Add fuzzy search for shortcuts, so now if you type ":check" you’ll get ✅, ☑️, and the not-so-useful 🏁
Add the ability to deactivate Rocket on specific websites that already have an emoji picker. (In Chrome and Safari… it’s not possible in Firefox unfortunately 😞.)
Allow users to override the system language from within Rocket

Plus, a couple of bug fixes:

Improvements to the deactivation of Rocket's search window
Expanded French emoji translations

French Translation

🚀 + 🇫🇷

This version of Rocket adds French localization, including translating Rocket's 2,000+ emoji names, shortcuts, and search keywords.

Huge thanks to Reinald Freling who did this amazing translation work. You should absolutely follow him on Twitter @rfreling or check out his website at putcocoa.in. This is one of the most generous things anyone could do to support Rocket—take a look at Reinald’s work and send him some good karma.

My favourite thing about Rocket is the people who use it. Thanks to you all, and special thanks to Reinald.

French Translation

This is a beta release.

🚀 + 🇫🇷

This version of Rocket adds French localization, including translating Rocket's 2,000+ emoji names, shortcuts, and search keywords.

My favourite thing about Rocket is the people who use it. Thanks to you all, and special thanks to Reinald.

This version of Rocket adds new emoji, boosts the Search & Browse window, and fixes bugs for Dvorak keyboard layouts.

Full details below:

Adds Unicode 9 emoji for people on macOS 10.12.2+. Take a look at :avocado: and :clown: or browse through all your emoji in the Search & Browse window
Adds the ability to edit and delete existing shortcuts
You can now delete emoji and gifs from Rocket
You can now copy and paste emoji from the Search & Browse window into other apps
Fixes an issue where people using Dvorak keyboard layouts wouldn't be able to paste emoji

Beta release 2

This version of Rocket adds new emoji, boosts the Search & Browse window, and fixes bugs for Dvorak keyboard layouts.

Full details below:

Adds Unicode 9 emoji for people on macOS 10.12.2+. Take a look at :avocado: and :clown: or browse through all your emoji in the Search & Browse window
Adds the ability to edit and delete existing shortcuts
You can delete emoji and gifs from Rocket in case you get sick of anything
You can now copy and paste emoji from the Search & Browse window into other apps
Fixes an issue where people using Dvorak keyboard layouts wouldn't be able to paste emoji

Beta release

This version of Rocket

Adds Unicode 9 emoji for people on macOS 10.12.2+. Take a look at :avocado: and :clown: or browse through all your emoji in the Search & Browse window
Fixes an issue where people using Dvorak keyboard layouts wouldn't be able to paste emoji

This is a quick update to Rocket that'll fix a few small bugs

Fixes an issue where adding custom gifs might crash
More graceful handling of empty sections in the Search & Browse window (where "more graceful" means not crashing after you click them...)

Thanks so much for using Rocket!

All-new Emoji Browser!

With Search!

This version of Rocket adds a brand new emoji browser that you can use to search for emoji, add your own shortcuts, add custom gifs, and scroll through every emoji under the sun.

This version of Rocket also got a big internal upgrade as well, which should make adding new emoji a lot easier in the future (looking at you, :avocado:). Stay tuned.

Oh and by the way, you can now set your preferred skin tone for Rocket. Head over to Preferences to change that.

Thanks very much, and special thanks to everyone who buys a license for Rocket—it makes a huge difference!

All-new Emoji Browser!

(Beta release #1)

This version of Rocket adds a brand new emoji browser that you can use to search for emoji, add your own shortcuts, add custom gifs, and scroll through every emoji under the sun.

This version of Rocket also got a big internal upgrade as well, so if you spot any bugs, crashes, or anything else during the beta, please get in touch.

Thanks very much!

Thanks for sending in your bug reports and feature requests! Here's a little update to fix some bugs.

Fixes issues with Rocket's window positioning for full screen apps on secondary displays
Fixes handling for Command-A and other keyboard shortcuts so Rocket now deactivates properly

Now off to work on new features…

This version of Rocket focuses macOS Sierra updates and improving some small glitches in the core experience.

Fix bugs when using Rocket with multiple monitors (let me know if you spot any more though!)
Prevent Rocket from activating when typing times like "9:41am"
Add handling for key combinations like page up and page down that can't be displayed
Fixed bugs with deactivated applications, and added new default deactivations for iTerm and Sublime Text
Update for macOS Sierra and fix related bugs

Thanks to everyone who has been sending in feedback and suggestions! I'm currently planning out the next few releases of Rocket, so if you have any other suggestions now is a great time to send them through.

This version on Rocket focuses on upgrading for macOS Sierra and improving some small glitches in the core experience.

Add handling for key combinations like page up and page down that can't be displayed
Prevent Rocket from activating when typing times like "9:41am"
Fixed bugs with deactivated applications, and added new default deactivations for iTerm and Sublime Text
Update for macOS Sierra and fix related bugs

This release focuses on improving the main emoji completion window.

stops the emoji list from going off the screen when you're typing near the bottom!
adds a neat little triangle that points at the insertion point
improves performance for large lists of emoji
stop Rocket from polluting your clipboard manager's history if you're using one
improve the display of long custom emoji strings (multi-emoji strings are a cool thing you can do with custom emoji by the way)

This is the first beta release! If you are on the beta, congrats. If you aren't on the beta, you shouldn't be seeing this and something has gone wrong. Get in touch.
Nothing actually changed

This update lays the groundwork for a better upgrade experience, including a beta program. If you’d like to be included on beta releases you can toggle this in the app’s preferences (note that in the future this might be restricted to upgraded users only)
Fixes a bug that would incorrectly cause a crash when the app quit
Removes the website-specific disabling introduced in the last version (for performance and weird bugs reasons)

Thanks for tweeting and sending in your feedback! This release addresses some of the minor UI glitches and a few other bugs.

Disable for specific websites that have their own emoji pickers in Chrome and Safari—namely, Github.
Remove the "Open automatically at login" feature. This never worked—the checkbox was a lie!
Fix the button alignment across the "Custom GIFs" and "Custom emoji" preference tabs
Fix some copy and title case issues throughout the preferences window
Make deleting the phrase after you select an emoji more reliable (there were instances where the word previous would accidentally get deleted)
The help menu option now links to our support website instead of an empty help document

This release focuses on improving the way Rocket is triggered and activated.

Important note: as part of this improvement we needed to reset your custom trigger key. Please set this up again through the app's preferences. Thank you!

A faster, more reliable way of observing trigger keys (so if you were getting annoyed at typing colon-then-space and Rocket accidentally turning it into space-then-colon this fixes that)
A new way of setting trigger keys that is simpler and more flexible
Fixes issues around not being able to type in the preferences and feedback windows in some situations
You can now use Rocket in the preferences when adding a custom emoji, and you can use Rocket when sending me feedback (thanks for sending me feedback—it helped to drive the direction of this release!)

Thanks to everyone sending in feedback for Rocket—keep it coming!

Add a potential fix for an issue where editing the disable apps list would not work
Fix the application name in the main menu
Fix handling of arrow keys in emoji completion
Fix UI bugs when adding custom emoji
Fix handling of presses of the tab key
Fix window titles and introduce proper casing

Thanks to everyone who has been sending feedback via Twitter and the in-app menu—much appreciated!

Fix UI bugs around the licensing screens
Enable copy and paste in preferences

The store to upgrade for custom gifs and emoji should become available soon.

Thanks for sending in your feedback via Twitter and the in-app feedback screen—keep it coming!

Features

Custom gifs, emoji and images!!!
Custom trigger keys, so you can use +, (, or just about anything to activate Rocket

Bugs

Fix for non-US keyboard layouts
Fix the menu bar icon for dark menu bars
Fix hitting enter when there are no emoji matches so it doesn’t delete the last word
Better handling of phrases that include colons, for example "http://", ":)", etc.
Fix crashes around the disabled apps list

Internal build 3

Try to fix start at login
Improve first run experience
Bug fixes

Internal build 2