Free Emoji Remover – Strip Emojis & Emoticons from Text Online

Instantly remove all emojis, emoticons, and special Unicode symbols from any text. Perfect for cleaning social media posts, chat exports, user-generated content, and data for processing. Free, private, no login required.

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How to Remove Emojis from Text

Follow these simple steps to strip unwanted emojis and emoticons from any text. It takes just seconds — no technical knowledge required.

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Paste or Upload Your Text

Enter your text in the input area by pasting from social media, chat apps, email, or any source containing emojis. You can also upload a .txt file directly.

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Choose Options

Optionally enable the "Also remove text emoticons" checkbox to strip text-based emoticons like :) ;-P :D and XD in addition to Unicode emojis.

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Click Remove Emojis

Press the "Remove Emojis" button to process your text. All emoji characters — and optionally text emoticons — will be instantly stripped from the text.

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Copy or Download Clean Text

Use the Copy button to copy the cleaned text to your clipboard, or click Download to save it as a .txt file. A stats badge shows exactly how many emojis were removed.

Why Use Our Free Emoji Remover?

A fast, private, and comprehensive emoji stripping tool built by professional developers at CoderDesign Toronto. Here is what makes it different.

Instant Emoji Stripping

Clean thousands of emojis in milliseconds. The tool uses an optimized comprehensive regex to strip every emoji character instantly — paste, click, and get clean text with zero waiting.

100% Private & Secure

All processing happens locally in your browser using JavaScript. Your text is never sent to any server, stored in any database, or shared with any third party. Complete privacy guaranteed.

Comprehensive Detection

Catches all Unicode emoji types including smiley faces, flags, skin-tone modifiers, gender variants, zero-width joiner sequences (family & profession emojis), regional indicators, and variation selectors.

File Upload Support

Upload .txt files directly to clean their contents. The file is read locally in your browser and never uploaded to any server — perfect for processing large text files or exported chat logs quickly.

Works on Any Device

Use this tool on desktop, tablet, or mobile. Fully responsive design that works in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and all modern browsers. No installation or plugins needed.

No Sign-Up Required

Start removing emojis immediately. No login, no account creation, no email address required. Free forever with unlimited usage — just paste your text and get clean results instantly.

Common Use Cases

See how developers, data scientists, marketers, and writers use the Emoji Remover to clean text for real-world workflows.

Clean Social Media Data

Strip emojis from social media exports, scraped tweets, and user-generated content. Clean datasets for analytics, reporting, or database storage without emoji-related encoding issues.

Before
Had a great day! 🎉😊 Loved the food 🍕
After
Had a great day! Loved the food

Process User Input

Remove emojis from user-submitted form data, usernames, comments, and search queries. Sanitize input before processing, validating, or storing it in your application's database.

Before
My username is coolDev🚀💻
After
My username is coolDev

Professional Email Cleanup

Clean up email drafts that picked up emojis from chat or mobile typing. Ensure professional, clean communication without stray emojis in business correspondence.

Before
Thanks for the meeting today! 🙏✨ Let’s sync next week 📅
After
Thanks for the meeting today! Let’s sync next week

Clean Text for NLP

Prepare text corpora for natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and machine learning models. Remove emoji noise to improve tokenization and model accuracy.

Before
This product is amazing 😍😍😍 best purchase ever 👍
After
This product is amazing best purchase ever

Data Analysis Prep

Clean survey responses, customer feedback, and review data by stripping emojis. Prepare analyzable text for word-frequency analysis, topic modeling, and BI dashboards.

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Survey response: Great service! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Would recommend 👍
After
Survey response: Great service! Would recommend

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about removing emojis and emoticons from text. Can't find what you're looking for? Contact us.

This tool removes all standard Unicode emojis including smiley faces and people, hand gestures, animals and nature, food and drink, travel and places, activities, objects, flags, weather symbols, hearts, stars, and every other emoji category in the Unicode Standard. It also removes skin-tone modifiers, gender variants, zero-width joiner sequences (family emojis, profession emojis), regional indicator flags, variation selectors, and keycap sequences.
Simply paste your text into the input area, optionally check the box to also remove text emoticons like :) and ;-P, then click "Remove Emojis." The tool will instantly strip all emoji characters and display the clean text in the output area, ready to copy to your clipboard or download as a .txt file. There is no character limit — process as much text as you need.
By default, the tool only removes Unicode emojis (the colorful graphical characters). However, you can enable the "Also remove text emoticons" option to strip common text-based emoticons like :) :-) :( ;) :P :D XD :-/ :O B-) 8) and more. This is optional because many users want to keep text emoticons while only removing Unicode emojis — the two are quite different.
No. The tool specifically targets emoji Unicode ranges and leaves standard text characters, accented letters (é, ñ, ü), CJK characters (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), mathematical symbols, currency signs, and other non-emoji Unicode intact. It is designed to be surgically precise — removing only emojis without damaging the rest of your text content.
Yes, the Emoji Remover is completely free with no limitations whatsoever. There are no hidden charges, no premium tiers, and no sign-up required. You can clean unlimited text as many times as you need. CoderDesign provides this tool as a free resource for developers, writers, data analysts, marketers, and anyone who needs to strip emojis from text.
Absolutely. All processing happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript — nothing is sent to any server. Your text is never stored in any database, logged, or shared with any third party. You can verify this yourself by disconnecting from the internet and using the tool offline after the page has loaded. We do not use analytics or tracking on your text content.
Common reasons include: cleaning social media data for NLP and sentiment analysis, preparing text for databases that don't support emoji encoding (especially older MySQL with utf8 instead of utf8mb4), creating professional email or document content, sanitizing user input in web applications, cleaning text for print materials, removing emojis from CSV or Excel exports, and ensuring compatibility with legacy systems that cannot render emojis properly.
Yes. The tool works perfectly with text copied from Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Discord, Telegram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, and any other social media platform. Simply copy the text containing emojis, paste it into the input area, and click Remove Emojis to get clean text instantly. It handles all emoji variations used across different platforms.

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