What's new in Rocket 1.5.1
Aug 16, 2019
- This version of Rocket changes how we publish and deliver updates, as well as introducing new licensing and security methods. (It's now self-hosted – no more third parties!)
New in Rocket 1.5 (Mar 29, 2019)
- Select emoji using Rocket’s famous Slack-style emoji shortcuts
- Use our revamped on-boarding tutorial for VoiceOver users
- Browse and search through the emoji catalogue (Pro upgrade required)
- Hear stats about their emoji usage (Pro upgrade required)
New in Rocket 1.4.2 (Dec 18, 2018)
- Improved Fun Stats to be more positive
- Fixed issue where Gifs would come first in Browse & Search
New in Rocket 1.4.1 (Sep 27, 2018)
- Add support for Dark Mode in macOS Mojave
- Add new privacy controls for browser access, so you can decide what access Rocket has.
- UI improvements to the Fun Stats window
- Improvements to the Browse & Search window, especially for gifs
- Don't activate Rocket for ":P" and ":D" emoticons
- Better handling for disabling Rocket in apps like IntelliJ, VSCode, PHPStorm, and Microsoft Teams
- Better handling for when macOS decides to stop sending Rocket the events it needs. Rocket should be more reliable now.
- Fixes new emoji not appearing in Mojave
New in Rocket 1.4 (Jan 24, 2018)
- Emoji Bullet List 💯:
- Use this to create emojified bullet point lists that’ll make your presentations, documents, and standup updates all a little more ✨. Get to it from the Rocket menu bar icon—it’s free for everyone.
- Fun Stats for Pro Users 📊:
- Take a look at your Fun Stats to see some beautiful charts on how many emoji you’ve used, your top emoji, how many emoji you’ve ignored (😢), and more!
- Better, Faster Shortcut Search ⚡:
- I’ve improved the “:thu”-style shortcut search so that searching matches from the ‘-’ in a shortcut. This makes it faster and easier to drill down to the exact emoji you want, rather than having to wade through the 300 options given to you by the old fuzzy search mechanism. Let me know what you think via the Feedback tab though!
- Better Browse & Search 🔎:
- You can now see the whole 🌈 of skin tones when you choose an emoji in the Browse & Search window—even if you don’t have the preference tweaked! Double click one of these to quickly copy it to your clipboard.
- You can set a keyboard shortcut to quickly open the Browse and Search window. Do this from Preferences > Advanced 💥
- And more:
- Fixed an issue where some skin tone variations on an emoji wouldn’t appear in the Shortcut Search if you had that preference set
- Fixed links to my help pages, and improved my help pages in case Rocket stops working or you need to disable VSCode Tweaked some text around the app to be a little clearer
New in Rocket 1.3.2 (Nov 7, 2017)
- This version of Rocket adds the new emoji from Emoji 5.0 for people on macOS High Sierra 10.13.1+
- It also adds the ability to bulk delete emojis and gifs in the Browse & Search window—just select the items you want to delete and then right-click and choose Delete
New in Rocket 1.3.1 (Aug 18, 2017)
- Improved disabled apps picker in Preferences
- This version adds a new native app picker to disable Rocket for certain apps more smoothly, and you can now add and remove many apps at a time. It also makes "whitelisting" Rocket for only a small number of apps a lot easier.
- Search by emoji in the Browse & Search window
- Sometimes you know the emoji you want but you don't know what the shortcut is. Now you can search by emoji in the Browse & Search window.
- Reliability and bug fixes:
- Rocket's triggering has been refined to be a bit more consistent, the Browse & Search UI has been improved, and other small bug fixes.
New in Rocket 1.3 (Apr 11, 2017)
- Add a new onboarding flow for people that haven't got Rocket's accessibility setting enabled
- Add an Advanced preference item about hiding Rocket's menu bar icon
- Add the ability to click on quick search results to insert emoji
- Pro features:
- Double click on emoji in the full Search & Browse window to copy to your clipboard
- Use keyboard shortcuts to close Rocket's Preferences and Search & Browse windows
- Improve scrolling performance in the Search & Browse window
- Fix some memory leaks in Rocket's core and the Search & Browse window
New in Rocket 1.2.4 (Mar 13, 2017)
- Added some new features to Rocket:
- Added the ability to start Rocket at login
- Added fuzzy search for shortcuts, so now if you type ":check" you’ll get ✅, ☑️, as well as the not-so-useful 🏁
- Added the ability to deactivate Rocket on specific websites that already have an emoji picker, like Trello and Github
- Allow users to override Rocket’s language to be different from the system default
- Plus, a couple of bug fixes:
- Improvements to the deactivation of Rocket's search window
- Expanded French emoji translations
New in Rocket 1.2.3 (Mar 8, 2017)
- Adds French localization, including translating Rocket's 2,000+ emoji names, shortcuts, and search keywords.
New in Rocket 1.2.2 (Jan 3, 2017)
- Adds new emoji, boosts the Search & Browse window, and fixes bugs for Dvorak keyboard layouts.
- Adds Unicode 9 emoji for people on macOS 10.12.2+. Take a look at :avocado: and :clown: or browse through all your emoji in the Search & Browse window
- Adds the ability to edit and delete existing shortcuts
- You can now delete emoji and gifs from Rocket
- You can now copy and paste emoji from the Search & Browse window into other apps
- Fixes an issue where people using Dvorak keyboard layouts wouldn't be able to paste emoji
New in Rocket 1.2.1 (Dec 19, 2016)
- A quick update to Rocket that'll fix a few small bugs
- Fixes an issue where adding custom gifs might crash
- More graceful handling of empty sections in the Search & Browse window (where "more graceful" means not crashing after you click them...)
New in Rocket 1.2 (Dec 15, 2016)
- Fixes issues with Rocket's window positioning for full screen apps on secondary displays
- Fixes handling for Command-A and other keyboard shortcuts so Rocket now deactivates properly
New in Rocket 1.1.8 (Nov 11, 2016)
- Fixes issues with Rocket's window positioning for full screen apps on secondary displays
- Fixes handling for Command-A and other keyboard shortcuts so Rocket now deactivates properly
New in Rocket 1.1.7 (Nov 6, 2016)
- This version of Rocket focuses macOS Sierra updates and improving some small glitches in the core experience.
- Fix bugs when using Rocket with multiple monitors (let me know if you spot any more though!)
- Prevent Rocket from activating when typing times like "9:41am"
- Add handling for key combinations like page up and page down that can't be displayed
- Fixed bugs with deactivated applications, and added new default deactivations for iTerm and Sublime Text
- Update for macOS Sierra and fix related bugs
New in Rocket 1.1.6 (Jul 31, 2016)
- This release focuses on improving the main emoji completion window:
- stops the emoji list from going off the screen when you're typing near the bottom!
- adds a neat little triangle that points at the insertion point
- improves performance for large lists of emoji
- stop Rocket from polluting your clipboard manager's history if you're using one
- improve the display of long custom emoji strings (multi-emoji strings are a cool thing you can do with custom emoji by the way)
New in Rocket 1.1.5 (Jul 31, 2016)
- This update lays the groundwork for a better upgrade experience, including a beta program. If you’d like to be included on beta releases you can toggle this in the app’s preferences (note that in the future this might be restricted to upgraded users only)
- Fixes a bug that would incorrectly cause a crash when the app quit
- Removes the website-specific disabling introduced in the last version (for performance and weird bugs reasons)