--- title: Imoji Turns Your Selfies and Photos Into Textable Emoji description: Imoji is a new app that adds transparency to photos, turning them into textable stickers that take the place of emoji. canonical: https://time.com/3052852/this-iphone-app-turns-your-selfies-into-textable-stickers/ author: Kyle Chayka article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-29T18:28:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:01.395Z og:title: This iPhone App Turns Your Selfies into Emojis og:description: You-moji og:url: https://time.com/3052852/this-iphone-app-turns-your-selfies-into-textable-stickers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf57f1ca7213406c7/69869da235ba6f0d9dc03380/imoji_shot.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: imoji_shot og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This iPhone App Turns Your Selfies into Emojis twitter:description: You-moji twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf57f1ca7213406c7/69869da235ba6f0d9dc03380/imoji_shot.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This iPhone App Turns Your Selfies into Textable Stickers by [Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Jul 29, 2014 6:28 PM UTC  imoji by [Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Jul 29, 2014 6:28 PM UTC [New emoji](http://emojipedia.org/new-emoji/) are rolling out rapidly enough that someday we’ll have entire libraries full of incomprehensible emoji-only books to be read only by experts. But if even the existence of a hot dog or pizza emoji isn’t enough, there’s [imoji](http://www.imojiapp.com/)—a new app that will turn a selfie, a snapshot, or pretty much anything else into a textable sticker. Just open the app, choose a picture, and erase around the edges to turn it into an emoji perfectly suited to your conversation. imoji’s [Instagram account](http://instagram.com/imojiapp) has some suggestions: a 2007 meltdown-era Britney Spears head, goofy animal pictures, and, of course, Peter Dinklage. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3052852/this-iphone-app-turns-your-selfies-into-textable-stickers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3052852/this-iphone-app-turns-your-selfies-into-textable-stickers/"},"headline":"This iPhone App Turns Your Selfies into Textable Stickers","datePublished":"2014-07-29T18:28:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:01.395Z","description":"You-moji","url":"https://time.com/3052852/this-iphone-app-turns-your-selfies-into-textable-stickers/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Technology","emoji"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf57f1ca7213406c7/69869da235ba6f0d9dc03380/imoji_shot.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kyle Chayka","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf57f1ca7213406c7/69869da235ba6f0d9dc03380/imoji_shot.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"imoji_shot","caption":"","creditText":"imoji","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3052852/this-iphone-app-turns-your-selfies-into-textable-stickers/","name":"This iPhone App Turns Your Selfies into Textable Stickers"}}]}] ```