desert-ant-labs / emo

Emo

Suggest emoji faster than you can type.

Multilingual on-device emoji suggestion.

• SDKs, install and examples: https://github.com/Desert-Ant-Labs/desert-ant-core/blob/main/docs/models/emo.md
• Website: https://desertant.com/models/emo/

Type a word or a sentence and get the emoji that fits. Tuned for to-dos, calendar entries, notes, and message drafts across 22 languages (including CJK, Arabic, Thai, Hindi, and more). The whole thing, model and tokenizer, is small ( 5MB on Apple via Core ML, 11MB via LiteRT elsewhere) and runs in well under 2ms on device.

"Dentist appointment" → 🦷 · "réserver un vol pour Tokyo" → ✈️ · "犬の散歩" → 🐕 · "จองโรงแรม" → 🏨

Try it

• Live demo: desert-ant-labs/emo-demo : type a phrase, get emojis, fully in your browser.

Install

Swift ( requirements )

.package(url: "https://github.com/Desert-Ant-Labs/desert-ant-core.git", from: "3.1.0")

Then add the Emo product to your target.

Kotlin ( requirements )

implementation("ai.desertant:emo:3.1.0")

JavaScript ( requirements )

npm i @desert-ant-labs/emo @litertjs/core   # browser
npm i @desert-ant-labs/emo                  # Node, prebuilt native core

Files

Older revisions (tags v0.6.0 and earlier) carry Emo.mlmodelc and emo.safetensors for SDK versions that predate the unified cross-platform migration.

Inputs and outputs

• Input: a plain text string. Best on short, intent-oriented text.
• Output: a probability distribution over the 812-emoji vocabulary; take the top-1 (or top-k). Optimized for top-1 relevance .

Languages

English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Swedish, Danish, Czech.

Limitations

• Tuned for short, intent-oriented text; long-form text produces noisier suggestions.
• Emoji semantics are imprecise; near-ties at the top of the ranking are expected.
• Per-language quality varies; lower-resource languages in the set are somewhat weaker.

License

Desert Ant Labs Source-Available License . Free for most apps, and a commercial license is required at scale. Full terms are at the link. Licensing: [email protected] .

See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md .

Citation

@software{emo_2026,
  title  = {Emo: Multilingual on-device emoji suggestion},
  author = {Desert Ant Labs},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/desert-ant-labs/emo},
}

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