Snail Emoji Kitchen
Snail was one of the first emoji Google added after the original launch, arriving on 18 February 2021 with 108 pairings. Five years and nineteen releases later it has 348, the second smallest set on this page. Its most recent release was also one of its largest, adding 63 in February 2026, so it is growing again after a long quiet stretch.
Every Snail mashup, and the day Google shipped it
Google added Snail to Emoji Kitchen on 18 February 2021, starting with 108 combinations. It now mixes with 348 emojis, built up over 19 separate releases. The most recent, on 2 February 2026, added 63.
| Release | Combinations added | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| 63 | 18.1% | |
| 4 | 1.1% | |
| 1 | 0.3% | |
| 7 | 2.0% | |
| 1 | 0.3% | |
| 13 | 3.7% | |
| 1 | 0.3% | |
| 34 | 9.8% | |
| 2 | 0.6% | |
| 26 | 7.5% | |
| 1 | 0.3% | |
| 16 | 4.6% | |
| 7 earlier drops | 179 | 51.4% |
Newest Snail pairings
These partners arrived in the 2 February 2026 release, so they are the ones least likely to have been seen before.
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See every Emoji Kitchen release, with what each one added
Dates read from the Emoji Kitchen sticker assets Google serves through Gboard, which stamp each combination with the release that introduced it.
An early addition that never took off
February 2021 was early. Emoji Kitchen had launched four months before, and snail was in the first wave of expansions. Being early has not helped: at 348 pairings it sits behind emoji that arrived years later, including pizza at 576 and shark at 601. The 271 missing partners mean roughly half of what you try here will come back with nothing, which is worth knowing before you go hunting.
The February 2026 batch is unusually large
Sixty-three new pairings in one release, against a lifetime total of 348. That is nearly a fifth of everything snail has, added at once, and it is the first sign of real investment since the debut. Those stickers are in the newest pairings row above. If you looked at snail combinations a year ago and found them limited, that assessment is already out of date.
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Snail Emoji Kitchen FAQ
How many snail emoji combinations exist?
348 out of 619 possible partners, so 271 return nothing. Snail has one of the smaller sets among frequently searched emoji despite having been supported since February 2021.
Has snail had new mashups recently?
Yes, and more than usual. The February 2026 release added 63 pairings, nearly a fifth of its total set, after several years of much smaller additions.
Why is snail used in messages?
Almost always for slowness, whether about a person, a connection or a delivery. That figurative use is why it gets searched far more than its real-world subject would suggest, and why the combination set matters.
Further reading
- Every Emoji Kitchen update since 2020All 43 dated drops and 147,000 pairings, counted from Googleโs own data files.
- How to use Emoji Mixer and KitchenWhich pairs actually produce a mashup, and which do nothing.
- Free online emoji gamesWhat to play, and which ones are actually hard.
- Free online emoji keyboardType emoji on any device without installing anything.