Emotile app icon: a rainbow dissolving into emoji tiles

Emotile

Turn photos into emoji mosaics.

Just pick a photo. Emotile hand-picks the emoji whose color and shape fit each tile, and rebuilds your photo as a mosaic of thousands of emoji.

Coming soon to the App Store
A cafe photo of cake and coffee converted into an emoji mosaic in the Emotile editor
An everyday photo
Colorful street-art poles converted into an emoji mosaic in the Emotile editor
Colors you find in the city
A park at sunset converted into a monochrome kanji mosaic in the Emotile editor
Kanji mode — like ink painting

Look closely — every tile is a real emoji. Tap a sample to zoom in and spot each ⏰🐭📁. Works just as well with your pet, your fave, or a selfie.

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Drag the handle. The tiles are never recolored — the mosaic is built only from real emoji whose own colors match the photo.

Cake and coffee as an emoji mosaic Original photo: cake and coffee at a cafe Photo Emoji
Cake & coffee → emoji
A no-parking sign as an emoji mosaic Original photo: a no-parking sign against the sky Photo Emoji
Street sign → emoji
A park at sunset as a monochrome kanji mosaic Original photo: a park at sunset with long shadows Photo Kanji
Sunset park → kanji mode

Every tile is an emoji.

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Picked from 1,000+ emoji

For every tile, Emotile searches for the emoji that best matches the color and shape. Shuffle for a whole new arrangement of the same photo.

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No recoloring, ever

Tiles are never tinted or filtered. Real emoji, honestly arranged — that’s the Emotile way.

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10 color filters

Mono, sepia, vivid, neon and more. Filters shift the photo’s colors to steer which emoji get chosen.

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Text modes

Draw with kanji, letters, dot patterns, hieroglyphs or cuneiform instead of emoji — monochrome mosaics of type.

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Lucky emoji

One emoji appears exactly once in each artwork. Follow the hint on the frame and try to find it.

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Photos stay on your iPhone

Everything runs on-device. Your photos are never uploaded anywhere.

Three steps

Pick a photo

Choose from your library or shoot one. You can also convert straight from the Photos share sheet.

Make it yours

Adjust detail, emoji sets, color filters and cropping with quick sliders and chips.

Save & share

Export in high resolution for social media, or copy the mosaic as emoji text.

Your next photo, in emoji.

Coming soon to the App Store