Add Emoji to Photo
Add emoji to photo or screenshot online, free and with no signup. Drop your picture and the emoji picker is already open, so you can search one, drop it on, and drag it exactly where you want. Resize it, spin it, or park it over a face. Nothing is uploaded. Up to 25 MB.
Drop your photo to add emoji
The emoji picker opens with it, so nothing to go hunting for. Or press Ctrl + V to paste one straight from your clipboard. PNG, JPG or WebP, up to 25 MB. Edited in your browser, never uploaded.
Pick One.
Drop It On.
Half the reason anyone puts an emoji on a photo is to cover something: a face, a stranger in the background, a name badge. Which makes it a strange thing to ask people to upload the picture first. This one opens the file on your machine and never sends it anywhere.
Tools that pair well with this one
All free, all in your browser, no signup.
How to put an emoji on a photo
Three steps, no account, 25 MB per image.
Drop your photo
Drag a PNG, JPG or WebP onto the box, or press Ctrl+V to paste one from your clipboard.
Pick an emoji and place it
The picker is already open. Click one to drop it in the middle, or drag it straight to the spot you want, then resize and rotate it.
Download it
PNG keeps the edges sharp and any transparency intact. JPG if you need it smaller. No watermark either way.
The fast path
Put an emoji on a photo in about five seconds
This is a small job that most tools make into a large one: an account, an upload, a sidebar of upsells, and an emoji you cannot resize once it lands.
Drop your picture and the emoji panel opens with it, already focused. Search for what you want, then either click it to drop it in the middle or drag it straight onto the spot. It arrives selected, so the very next thing you do can be moving it.
- Resize: Drag any corner. It is drawn from vector artwork, so a huge one is as clean as a small one.
- Rotate: The handle above it. A slight tilt is usually the difference between looking placed and looking pasted.
- Fade: Drop the opacity if you want it to sit into the photo rather than on top of it.
- Swap: Change your mind about which emoji without losing the size and angle you just set.
Add as many as you like. Each one is its own layer, so a row of them along the bottom of a photo is four objects you can nudge individually rather than one decision you have to get right first time.
Privacy
Cover a face with an emoji, without handing the photo to a server
This is the most common reason people search for this tool, and it is the one where where the work happens genuinely matters. You are anonymising a photo. Uploading it to do that is a strange first move.
Scale an emoji up until it covers the face, and drop the picture. Most people reach for the same handful: a smiley for something light, sunglasses for a friend who did not ask to be posted, a plain circle or a solid square when the point is coverage rather than a joke.
Why an emoji beats a blur for this: a blur is a mathematical transformation of the pixels that were there, and a weak one can sometimes be partially reversed. An emoji placed on top and exported is flattened, so the face is not underneath it in a weaker form, it is gone from the file entirely.
And because the whole thing runs in this tab, the version of the photo with the face still visible never travels anywhere. It is opened by your browser, edited by your browser, and saved by your browser. We could not look at it if we wanted to.
Other ways to hide something in a picture
Stickers
Emoji stickers, and what this does not have
An emoji sticker editor and an emoji picker are usually two different things. Here they are the same thing, because an emoji you place behaves like a sticker in every way that matters.
It is an object on a layer: movable, resizable, rotatable, fadeable, reorderable and deletable, right up to the moment you download. Nothing is baked into the picture until you export it, so a stack of them is still a stack of separate decisions.
The honest limit: these are emoji, not a sticker pack. There are no illustrated speech bubbles, no branded sticker sets and no shapes with text baked in. If you want a decorated caption, add a text layer and an emoji next to each other, which takes one extra click and looks better anyway.
An emoji here behaves like a sticker, not a stamp.
Which is what everybody wanted it to be.
Drag, resize, rotate
It arrives selected and ready to move, because nobody leaves a sticker where it landed. Corner handles resize it, the top handle spins it, and it stays crisp at any size.
Search hundreds of them
Type what you mean rather than scrolling a grid. The ones you have used recently sit at the top, because most people reach for the same five.
Looks the same for everyone
These are drawn from Twemoji, not your system font. A font emoji is rendered by whichever device opens the file, so the same picture looks different on a Mac, a PC and a phone. This way what you place is what everyone sees.
Covers a face properly
Scale one up over a face and the export is flattened pixels. There is no layer underneath for anyone to peel off, which is more than can be said for a weak blur.
Every emoji stays editable
Swap one emoji for another without losing the size and angle you set. Fade it, send it behind something, hide it, or undo twenty steps back.
No watermark, no account
No signup wall, no logo in the corner, no export limit. It is a tool, not a trial.
Frequently asked questions
How the emoji tool works, and where it stops.
Drop your photo on the box above, or press Ctrl+V to paste one. The editor opens with the emoji picker already showing, so search for the emoji you want or browse the grid.
Click one to drop it in the middle, or drag it straight where you want it. Resize it from the corners, rotate it from the handle above, then press Download. No account, no watermark.
Place an emoji, then drag a corner handle to scale it up until it covers the face. A smiley, sunglasses or a solid circle all work. Because the export is flattened, the face is not hidden underneath the emoji in the downloaded file, it is not in the file at all. And the original never leaves your device, which is the part that matters if you are anonymising a photo in the first place.
Yes. No signup, no export limit, no logo in the corner. The work happens in your browser rather than on our servers, so there is no per-image cost for us to pass on.
Yes, and this is worth knowing about. Emoji from a system font are drawn by whichever device opens them, which is why the same message can look cheerful on an iPhone and slightly unhinged on an older Android. These are drawn from Twemoji and painted into the image when you export, so the picture you download is the picture everyone sees.
As many as you like. Each is its own layer with its own size, angle and transparency, and you can reorder them so one sits in front of another.
Search for it by name in the picker. Hearts, smileys, fire, sunglasses, arrows, flags and hundreds more are in there, and the ones you use most float to the top of the panel next time.
No. They come from vector artwork and are drawn at the size you export, so an emoji covering half a photo is as crisp as a small one in the corner.
Yes, exactly the same way. If you are marking up a screenshot rather than decorating a photo, the annotation page pairs emoji with arrows, boxes and labels, which is usually what that job needs.
No. Your browser opens the file and draws on it locally. Nothing is sent to a server, which is why it is instant on a large photo and why nobody here can see what you were editing.
Yes. Tap an emoji to place it, then drag it into position and pinch or drag a corner to size it. A larger screen is more comfortable for fine placement, but the whole job works on a phone.
Add your emoji now
Drop the photo, pick an emoji, drag it where you want it. Nothing gets uploaded and nothing gets watermarked.