Comparison
Custom Emoji Generator vs Emoji Kitchen: Mashups or Your Own Emoji?
Emoji Kitchen, built into Gboard and available on the web, mashes two standard emoji into one sticker: a cat and a heart, a ghost and a party hat. It is quick and charming, and it only ever produces combinations of emoji that already exist, as stickers rather than custom emoji. A generator draws something new from a sentence and gives you a file you can upload as an emoji anywhere.
Input
- Custom emoji generator
- A description in words
- Emoji Kitchen
- Two existing emoji
Output
- Custom emoji generator
- A new transparent PNG or GIF emoji
- Emoji Kitchen
- A sticker image of the mashup
Can be a custom emoji in Slack or Discord
- Custom emoji generator
- Yes
- Emoji Kitchen
- Only if you download and resize it, and it stays a mashup
Subjects
- Custom emoji generator
- Anything you can describe, including your team's in-jokes
- Emoji Kitchen
- Combinations of the standard set
Animated
- Custom emoji generator
- Yes, a six-frame loop
- Emoji Kitchen
- No
Cost
- Custom emoji generator
- Free first generation, then credits
- Emoji Kitchen
- Free
| Custom emoji generator | Emoji Kitchen | |
|---|---|---|
| Input | A description in words | Two existing emoji |
| Output | A new transparent PNG or GIF emoji | A sticker image of the mashup |
| Can be a custom emoji in Slack or Discord | Yes | Only if you download and resize it, and it stays a mashup |
| Subjects | Anything you can describe, including your team's in-jokes | Combinations of the standard set |
| Animated | Yes, a six-frame loop | No |
| Cost | Free first generation, then credits | Free |
Pick Custom emoji generator if
The generator, when you need an emoji that does not exist yet: a mascot, a specific reaction, a joke, a thing your team says. And whenever it has to be an actual custom emoji in a chat app.
Describe an emojiPick Emoji Kitchen if
Emoji Kitchen, for a quick sticker in a text message when two standard emoji together say what you mean.
Make a sticker insteadQuestions people ask
Can I upload an Emoji Kitchen sticker as a Slack emoji?
Technically, if you download it and resize it under 128 KB. It stays a mashup of Google's emoji designs, and at 22 pixels the two-emoji detail usually blurs. A generated emoji is drawn for that size.
Does Emoji Kitchen make animated emoji?
No. It produces still stickers. Animated custom emoji need a GIF, which the generator makes from a description with the Animated toggle.
Is a custom emoji generator free?
The first generation is free on sign-in. After that a credit pack covers ten, and a Pro plan covers a month of them plus emote packs.