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Emoji Remover: Remove Emoji and Emoticons from Text

This free tool strips emoji from text and leaves the words. It removes pictographs, flags, skin tone modifiers, joiners and keycaps, and can also remove text faces like :) and ;-). It reports how many it removed.

By Debmedia Technologies LLP · Kolkata, India · Updated

What Is It and When Do You Need It?

Emoji are everywhere in modern text, but not every system can handle them. Removing them gives plain text that works in older databases and formal documents.

Paste your text and choose whether to remove text faces too.

How to Use This Tool

  1. Enter or paste your input in the box or boxes above.
  2. Choose the options, if there are any.
  3. Press the button to run the tool.
  4. Read the result and use the copy button where one is shown.

How the Calculation Works

The tool first removes flag pairs and keycap sequences, then every Extended Pictographic character with its skin tone modifier, variation selector and zero-width joiner. If you ask, it also removes common emoticons that sit between spaces or at the ends of words. Finally it tidies spaces.

Worked Example

Great job 👍🏽 :) see you 🇮🇳 becomes Great job see you when both options are used.

Common Uses

  • Cleaning chat logs.
  • Preparing data for old systems.
  • Making formal text from social posts.
  • Counting words.

Tips and Common Mistakes

  • Keep a copy of the original.
  • Joined emoji such as families are removed as one.
  • Use the text statistics counter to count emoji first.
  • Check the first result against a case you already know, so you can trust the tool for the rest.
  • Nothing you type leaves your device. The work is done by your browser, so it also works with a slow connection once the page has loaded.

Next, you may need the text statistics counter, invisible character remover, character counter, text repeater.

Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded, stored or sent to any outside service.

Frequently Asked Questions

Any character with the Unicode Extended Pictographic property, plus flags, keycap sequences, skin tone modifiers, variation selectors and joiners.
The copyright and trademark signs and plain arrows are kept. Only picture-style characters are removed.
Faces made from punctuation, such as :) or :-( . They are removed only if you choose the option.
Some systems, databases, forms and printers cannot show them, and they can break fixed-width text.

Disclaimer: results are calculated in your browser from the numbers you enter. Check important results before you rely on them for money, health, safety or legal decisions.