About Forgemoji

Forgemoji is a free, browser-based AI emoji generator. Pick any two emojis, and our AI creates a brand-new mashup image that has never existed before — delivered as a transparent-background PNG, ready to drop into Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, or any creative project.

Unlike look-up tools that pull from a fixed table of pre-made combinations, Forgemoji uses generative AI to produce original artwork every single time. Every result is unique.

We believe creative expression shouldn't be limited by a fixed emoji library. Emoji are a living language — they evolve with culture, humour, and context. Forgemoji exists to give everyone the power to forge exactly the emoji they imagine, instantly and for free.

Forgemoji is built and maintained by a small independent team:

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  Scott Mitchell — Product & Growth

  Strategy, SEO, and making sure the product solves real problems.

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  Lois Chen — Content & Emoji Linguistics

  Emoji guides, copy, and everything that makes the site readable.

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  Pixie Wong — Visual Design Lead

  UI, brand identity, and making pixels feel right.

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  Ricky Tan — Co-founder, Engineering

  AI integrations, infrastructure, and animated emoji exports.

The four of us have shipped emoji-related features at scale before. Scott led the sticker search team at a major messaging platform (2019-2022) and has written about emoji SEO for Search Engine Land, Ahrefs, and the Unicode Consortium mailing list. Lois spent five years moderating Discord communities of 50,000+ members and writes the emoji-slang explainers used in our own guides, with excerpts sourced from public Discord/TikTok comment threads. Pixie was on the brand design team at a consumer social app and has shipped emoji sets that now ship in three major keyboards. Ricky built the AI rendering pipeline that powers Forgemoji, and previously built video-generation features for a top-10 consumer app.

Between the four of us, we have shipped emoji packs, sticker packs, and generative-emoji features to a combined user base north of 80 million people. We started Forgemoji in early 2025 because the existing emoji-mixing tools had not been updated in 18-24 months and the underlying AI models had moved on. We are not VC-funded. The site runs on a two-person on-call rotation, and the team commits and ships in the open on GitHub.

We have been profiled by several publications covering generative-AI tools. The full list lives on the changelog page, along with the dates of every public release.

1. You pick two emojis using our emoji picker.
2. Our AI pipeline generates a kawaii-style image blending both emoji concepts.
3. An AI background-removal step strips the background, producing a clean transparent PNG.
4. The 256×256 PNG is returned to your browser — nothing is stored on our servers.

We also support animated GIF and WebP export (6 animation styles), and a custom photo-to-emoji mode where you upload a photo and transform it into an emoji-style image.

Three things we hold ourselves to, in order of importance:

1. Don't lock basic features behind a paywall. The free tier (5 generations per day, no account) is the core product. Pro is an optional add-on, not a way to make the basics unusable.
2. Be honest about AI limitations. Generative emoji are not perfect. The result won't always match the prompt, especially for abstract or contradictory emoji pairs. When that happens, regenerate — the next one is almost always better.
3. Keep user data minimal. We don't require an account, we don't store the emoji you generate, and we don't sell anything about you to anyone. The only data we collect is the standard web server logs (IP, user agent) used for abuse prevention and capacity planning.

Have a question, a bug report, or a business inquiry? Email us at hello@forgemoji.com.

Emoji characters themselves are an open, public standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium. Their visual appearance, however, is owned by the platform vendors who ship them — Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and others. Forgemoji is designed to respect both the openness of the standard and the IP rights of those vendors and other rights-holders.

What we do

• We don't redistribute third-party emoji fonts. Forgemoji never embeds or re-hosts the Apple, Google, Microsoft, or Samsung emoji sets. The emoji glyphs you see in our picker are rendered using your device's native emoji font (on Apple devices) or via the permissively-licensed Noto Emoji (Apache 2.0) as a fallback on other platforms.
• We don't ship Google Emoji Kitchen mashups. In April 2026 Forgemoji removed every pre-made Emoji Kitchen combination from our service. Every image in our gallery and every output from our generator is produced from scratch by generative AI — not pulled from a static lookup table or third-party image bank.
• Generated outputs are original AI artwork. Each mashup is synthesised by a generative image model in response to your input. Outputs are not photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, or derivative works of any specific existing emoji or copyrighted image.
• You own the images you generate. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we assign all rights in the AI outputs to the user who generated them. You can use them freely for personal, educational, or commercial purposes — including as custom emoji on Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, and other platforms — without attribution or royalties to us.
• AI-generated content is labelled. Every generated result includes an "AI Generated" marker in the UI. We recommend adding the same label when sharing outputs publicly so your audience knows the image was synthesised rather than captured or hand-drawn.

What we prohibit

• Specific branded characters — recognisable trademarked characters such as Pikachu, Mickey Mouse, Mario, Peppa Pig, or Hello Kitty. Generic concepts (a fire-breathing dragon, a cute cat, a wizard) are fine; specific branded characters are not.
• Third-party IP infringement — using Forgemoji outputs to reproduce copyrighted artwork, trademarks, logos, or the likeness of identifiable individuals without permission.
• Misinformation and unlawful use — deepfakes, scams, harassment, defamation, or any content that violates applicable law.

Reporting IP violations

If you believe a generated image on Forgemoji infringes your copyright, send a written DMCA notice to hello@forgemoji.com with the subject line "DMCA Notice". Your notice must include: identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, the URL of the image on Forgemoji, your contact information, a good-faith statement that the use is unauthorised, a statement of accuracy made under penalty of perjury, and your physical or electronic signature. We review every notice within 2 business days and act expeditiously to remove infringing content. The full procedure is documented in our Terms of Use.